Katie Hopkins forced to sell £1m home and now rents after humiliating libel case
Katie Hopkins was forced to sell off her £1million Devon home and now rents after a humiliating court case wiped out her finances.
The far-right activist, whose extreme and distasteful views saw her sacked from two lucrative newspaper columns and her LBC radio show, had to flog her family home to pay off a £500,000 legal bill after the writer Jack Monroe sued her for libel and won.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, racist Hopkins whinged that speaking her mind lost her career - having compared migrants crossing the Mediterranean in dinghies to "cockroaches" and claiming she'd use gunships to prevent people from landing on European shores.
"I live in a rented, modern, four-bedroom detached house with my husband Mark and our three children, aged 15, 14 and 10," she said.
"It's tucked out of the way for security reasons - our last home was rigged up to the local police station and had panic alarms fitted because of threats I received to my life.
"I was forced to sell it for £950,000 in early 2018 to pay off a legal bill in excess of £500,000."
While she didn't apologize for the circumstances leading up to the 2017 legal case - she'd falsely accused anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe of vandalizing a war memorial - Hopkins did express regret that she hadn't acted sooner to settle the case out of court.
Asked what her worst business decision had been, she said: "Arguably, not settling the legal case brought against me.
"I could have settled by giving £5,000 to a migrant charity but chose not to, and the ensuing court action and legal bills forced me to apply for an individual voluntary arrangement ."
And she claimed she learned nothing from being on The Apprentice in 2007, adding: "I 100% did not. However, I did learn that at the start of a recruitment process it's best to keep your mouth shut, listen and learn where you fit in - and only then have your say."
Hopkins found herself under fire in September when Little Mix's Jesy Nelson cited her fat-shaming tweet as the point at which her depression spiraled out of control, leading to a suicide attempt.
In the BBC documentary Odd One Out, Jesy recalled how she came off stage after an X Factor performance in 2013 to read a tweet from Hopkins that read: "Packet Mix has still got chubbier in their ranks. Less Little Mix. More Pick n Mix."
Jesy revealed she'd not eaten for a week before her X Factor return in 2013 and was horrified when she saw what Hopkins said after the performance.
The Little Mix star said: "All I remember feeling at that time is what’s the f**king point.
"I've starved myself for a week and I'm still getting called fat. I could be the skinniest girl in the world and this is never going to go away.
"That is the pinnacle point for me when I got severely depressed and it just spiraled out of control."
Hopkins was also widely mocked more recently when she tried to slate the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, on Australia's Channel 9 documentary 60 Minutes.
The former Celebrity Big Brother loser said of Meghan: "There she is in her one-shoulder dress, being glowing. Because all she does is glow.
"Abdicate. Off you go.
"She wears bad clothes, when did we ask for that?"
But viewers fell about laughing at the short clip, with one tweeting back: "All this from a divorcee, who shags married men in fields, looks like she got dressed in the dark, is on the brink of bankruptcy and a nasty bitch on Twitter to boot #MeghanMarkle #KatieHopkins."
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