A MADE In Chelsea favourite has married her jailbird boyfriend two months after his release from prison.
Back in 2022, we exclusively told how the brunette beauty’s fiance was jailed for seven years for masterminding a £80million art swindle which involved defrauding clients and faking documents.
Yet now Made In Chelsea’s Victoria Baker-Harber, 35, has had her fairytale moment with Inigo Philbrick after the pair said I Do in an intimate ceremony.
The couple, who share three-year-old daughter Gaia Grace, said their vows after Inigo served two years out of a seven-year sentence.
He was released to home detention curfew in New York – a scheme which sees culprits let go early from custody if they have a suitable address to go to – for the reunion with his fiancee and child.
According to MailOnline, their nuptials were a “quickie ceremony without guests” yet there will be a full celebration in June, when Inigo’s electronic tag is taken off.
In a telling comment Victoria, who joined the Made In Chelsea cast in 2011, then admitted in a recent interview: “Not the wedding that I’ve pictured since I was nine …”
The pair first met on a yacht in 2016.
Inigo was raised in America and, according to MailOnline, their married status will help “secure an American visa” for half-British and half-Australian Victoria.
Legal horror
Victoria was five months pregnant with their first child when he was arrested in 2020, giving birth later that year.
In 2022, the former gallery owner was jailed for seven years for masterminding his complex plan.
The illegal arrangement saw Inigo, originally from Hackney in East London, buy and sell paintings by top artists like David Hockney for millions.
Yet his business – run from an art gallery in London’s Mayfair – was a Ponzi scheme, where the same valuable masterpieces were sold several times over to different wealthy investors.
In 2019, he sold a painting of the artist Pablo Picasso at an auction in London but the £5million price tag was not enough to pay off all those who thought they owned it.
He went on the run for six months before being tracked down by the FBI.
He was taken to a jail in Brooklyn – which was so brutal Victoria dared not take their daughter.
At the time, she said: “He is in there with a guy on a quadruple homicide charge in his cell.”
When asked about rumours that they are no longer a couple, she added: “That’s another load of bulls***.
“I’ve stood by him and will continue to do so.
“Inigo is the best person I know and his biggest problem was saying no and not wanting to let people down – so he tried to find solutions.”
For his part, Inigo showed his commitment to their romance by having the letter V tattooed on his chest while inside.
There is no suggestion Victoria knew about his illegal actions at the time.
Victim’s take
At the time he was caught, Inigo claimed his victims were “rich people who could afford it.”
Yet one such scorned party, German art dealer Daniel Trumpel, was quick to hit back.
At the time, he said: “This is not a Robin Hood story, this is real money he stole.
“Money my wife and I had worked hard for during our work life and which Philbrick embezzled to finance the luxurious lifestyle, the private planes, the gambling and the heavy spending on wine, drugs and restaurants.”
Timeline of the crime
MADE In Chelsea's Victoria Baker-Harber and Inigo Philbrick's relationship and timeline revealed
- 2016: The pair meet on a yacht in the Mediterranean
- 2020: Victoria falls pregnant with their first child
- 2020: Inigo Philbrook is arrested for his role in an £80million art swindle involving de-frauding clients and faking documents
- 2020: Victoria gives birth to the pair’s little girl, Gaia Grace
- 2022: Inigo is sentenced to seven years in jail
- 2024: He is released in New York with a Home Detention Curfew
- 2024: Inigo and Victoria marry in April
Clapping back
Recently, the dad of two – who shares his first child with a former lover – opened up on his “greedy” actions.
He told the Sunday Times Magazine: “There are a lot of people who look at it and say, Look, I didn’t kill anyone; I didn’t do anything violent in any sort of way.
“Beyond that, the people who are involved in my case… no one missed a meal; nobody didn’t send their children to university.
“I don’t think that anyone in this whole story is guilty of much more than greed and ambition.
“I don’t think any good business happens without ambition, and I think greed is a natural human state.
“I’d feel a lot more guilt if I had been drink-driving or if I’d been selling drugs and someone had died.”
