Night in jail Pop star Samantha Fox goes on a drunken rampage on a plane

Carlotta Henggeler

3.7.2024

The English singer Samantha Fox went on a rampage on an airplane and was arrested. Here at a performance in Istanbul in 2006.
The English singer Samantha Fox went on a rampage on an airplane and was arrested. Here at a performance in Istanbul in 2006.
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Pop star Samantha Fox was arrested on her way to Munich. The singer went on a drunken rampage on a plane in London. The flight was stopped, Fox was arrested and taken to prison for the night.

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  • English pop star Samantha Fox became famous with her songs in the 1980s. Her hit "Touch Me" was number one in the Swiss charts for several weeks in 1986.
  • In 1983, she became famous as the nude girl on page 3 of the English newspaper "The Sun".
  • Now the Englishwoman was arrested on a flight in London. She was drunk and started a fight. The captain aborted the take-off maneuver and had her arrested. Samantha Fox had to spend a night in prison, according to various media, including the newspapers "New York Post " and "The Sun".

Crime scene at London Heathrow Airport. Pop star Samantha Fox ("Touch Me") recently wanted to fly from London to Munich with British Airways.

But on approach, Fox gets into such a heated argument with a passenger that the captain has the plane stopped during take-off.

Samantha Fox is arrested on the plane and has to spend a night in a holding cell. She is released on bail until March.

The passengers have to leave the plane and spend the night in a hotel until a replacement flight can be found.

Samantha Fox is sorry

British police have confirmed to The Sun newspaper that a woman in her mid-50s has been arrested for suspected drunkenness on board an airplane.

Samantha Fox (56) says she is helping with the investigation and is "deeply sorry for any disruption she has caused", writes "New York Post".

The English singer had to cope with the death of her sister Vanessa in March 2023. She suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 50.

The sisters were very close. In her autobiography "Forever", published in 2017, Samantha Fox told how Vanessa saved her when her alcoholic father Pat attacked her.


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