Samantha Fox was managed by her father, John Fox, at the height of her career. Unfortunately, he was reportedly an abusive and "controlling" man who, writes The Guardian, "increasingly spent more time drinking and taking cocaine than doing his job."
Ahead of the publication of her 2017 memoir, Forever, Samantha alleged to the Mirror that she was left with a black eye and fractured ribs after receiving a physical beating at his hands in 1991. This proved to be the last straw for the young star, and she subsequently gave her father his marching orders. However, Samantha soon realized that he'd already embezzled much of her fortune by this point, and had avoided paying her taxes for no fewer than three years. Fox went on to file a successful lawsuit, but the £363,000 she received was reportedly used solely to settle her tax bill.
The singer didn't hear from her dad for several years until he contacted her one day out of the blue, per The Guardian. Sadly, it wasn't to make amends. John simply wanted to manufacture a reunion for the book deal he'd been offered about their life story. Unsurprisingly, Samantha wasn't interested, and the pair remained estranged until his death in 2000.
In an interview with Express 17 years later, Samantha reflected, "It was very difficult. You can't say you regret having your father as your manager because he is your father. But there's that saying: you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family."
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