KATIE Price has only been married for a few days to her ‘real gentleman’ husband Lee Andrews, but his flashy ‘Walter Mitty’ life in Dubai is already rapidly unravelling.
The former glamour model and TV star, 47, is smitten with the self-declared millionaire, who The Sun has who and recently talked about marrying two other women.
Katie Price has married Lee Andrews after a whirlwind romanceCredit: BackGrid
Troubling questions have emerged about the businessman’s impressive CVCredit: Facebook
Kim Kardashian appeared to support his business according to social media posts but Kim’s pals have told The Sun they are fakeCredit: Instagram
An AI-image detection tool shows Lee’s pic with Elon is 93.1% fakeCredit: Facebook
Questions are growing over whether his heavily-promoted electric vehicle company Aura – whose page claims to have $1.3billion in capital – is real, while companies and charities have slammed suggestions that he previously held positions with them.
Now we can reveal how a slew of prestigious awards and accolades on his high-flying CV simply do not exist – or were given to someone else entirely.
It comes as a source warned us: “Lee Andrews has always had a loose relationship with the truth.
“People are worried for Katie and concerned she may have fallen for lies and promises. This guy appears to be a Walter Mitty.”
Jet-setting Lee, who has been based in Dubai for 21 years, wants the world to know that he is a majority shareholder in MacAndrews & Forbes, an American holding company wholly owned by billionaire Ronald Perelman.
And he somehow claimed to find the time to work as a senior board member at Top Build Corporation (BLD) NYSE.
A spokesperson for Top Build Corporation has now told The Sun: “We do not recognise anyone by that name.”
Meanwhile, after a spokesperson for Fortune magazine told us the ‘Most Influential Person International Award’ Lee claims to have won in 2019 “has never existed”, more bogus accolades have emerged.
The businessman insists he was ranked number 21 in Top Business People 2016 by Fortune – but that place went to Thor Industries CEO Robert Martin.
Lee claims to have been hailed as Leader of the Year 2016 by UK National Business Awards, yet the accolade that year actually went to Rooney Anand, former CEO of .
Lee gave Katie a ring in an extravagant proposal featuring rose petals and private tub at Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotelCredit: Instagram
The real estate worker did the same thing with fitness fan Alana Percival in SeptemberCredit: Click News and Media
The list goes on. Lee says he was named among the Top 100 most creative people in Business 2018 by FastCompany, and while the list of high flyers includes the likes of superstar , there is no mention of Weslee Andrews – his full name.
On top of that Lee says he won the Veuve Clicquot Businessman of the Year 2017 – but the luxury champagne brand only sponsors the annual Business Woman of the Year.
He claims to be among Forbes Pioneers of the Middle East, January 2023, and although the website celebrates 100 high flying CEOs from the region that year, he is not among them.
‘Very sexual’ messages
Last night The Sun revealed how Lee had pursued a string of women in the months leading up to his whirlwind marriage to Katie.
Single mum-of-two Tina Prodromou, 48, said she had been bombarded with “very sexual” messages less than a month ago, with Lee saying what he would do to her “when we are married”.
It came after he also proposed to fitness fanatic Alana Percival in exactly the same way he did with the TV star.
Shameless Lee had told former girlfriends that he had studied at Cambridge University, and has a PhD in biotechnology science.
But The Sun has seen a response from the university explaining it could not find a record of Lee being registered as a student with a date of birth they had provided.
On his LinkedIn profile, he calls himself Dr Lee Andrews and says he founded Aura Sustainable Vehicles. He also says he is the founder of Blue Diamond Resorts, now Royalton Hotels and Resorts.
He listed himself as a Director of Philanthropy at the Prince’s Trust — now the King’s Trust — and a Member of the Board of Advisors to the since 2015.
But a Labour source said: “We don’t have a board of advisors and he doesn’t work with us.”
The King’s Trust also confirmed Lee does not hold the role of Director of Philanthropy, and it has no record of him as a volunteer, or under the moniker Weslee Andrews, which he uses online.
Royalton, which runs upmarket resorts in the and , said: “We can confirm that Dr Wes Lee Andrews (also known as Lee Andrews) is not founder of Blue Diamond Resorts. Based on our corporate records, he has not been affiliated with the company in any professional capacity.”
A link to his Aura electric vehicle company — apparently registered in the British Virgin Islands — says it is “launching soon”.
However, a business expert said: “It is unclear if this company really exists. It’s a bit of a mystery.
“If it has this much capital and is actually trading, you would be able to search for it (online) and links to the business would work. It is also not on any databases.
“Because it is apparently registered in the British Virgin Islands that makes it harder to check.”
AI fakery
Meanwhile, Lee appears to have turned to AI-generated imagery to create fake celebrity endorsements for Aura.
At the top of his remarkably glossy looking Instagram page he can be seen hanging out with and at a glitzy event for his car company last month.
A source close to Kim told The Sun: “Kim doesn’t know him, the photo is faked.
“This happens to her all the time – she’s never met or worked with this man.”
One picture expert said: “The image with Elon Musk is definitely fake and created using an AI programme. Musk was not with him.
“It is also likely the picture of the whole event was created with AI as well. The Kim Kardashian one is a false AI image and it is actually a fairly crude use of it.”
Baffling timeline
His baffling lifestyle has only added to the confusing timeline of when he met his new bride Katie.
According to Instagram, the ‘tycoon’ was at a lagoon in Iceland three weeks ago. Six weeks ago he was flying to Monaco on a private jet where he claimed to win 17,000 euro at the casino in Monte Carlo.
Lee has boasted of his successes on podcastsCredit: YouTube/Jordan Hisham
Katie and Lee got engaged at Dubai’s exclusive Burj Al Arab hotelCredit: Alamy
He celebrated with family in York and eight weeks ago was horse riding on a beach in Dubai.
Katie claimed to have connected with him just a week ago on social media. But she appeared to have a tattoo of his name on her hand in a photo she shared on January 12.
It has also emerged that Lee proposed to his previous wife Dina Taji in an almost identical fashion – in a hotel room strewn with rose petals – with a remarkably similar looking diamond ring.
Lee claimed he fell for fitness enthusiast Dina when they were both with other partners, but he decided to embrace her religion of Islam, including fasting during Ramadan. He also claimed he lived next door to a mosque and made plans to visit Mecca.
He gushed on Instagram: “I fell in love with a woman first of all the perfect woman you know before I even entered into the realm of Islam and things like this.
“I was accepted by the family, they’re very forward thinking. They’ve got the most beautiful hearts, they would help anyone, any type of race or individual person.
“They’re such beautiful human beings really, they are, that’s the first thing and I fell in love with them as well so it’s not like I fell in love with my wife I also fell in love with the family package deal.
“The culture grabbed me and I thought you know what there’s some very beautiful Arabic ladies out here.”
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