Sunday April 20, 2008

BOB GELDOF’s daughter PEACHES has been caught up in a shoplifting row – after she was accused of taking home an expensive dress without paying for it.

Staff at the Victim fashion store in London, noted that an expensive gown had gone missing after the 18-year-old was browsing on Thursday (17Apr08) evening.

Bosses called Geldof’s management and the teenager returned to the shop two hours later to apologize.

Store designer Mei-hui Liu says, “She said sorry and that it was a misunderstanding, but the dress is ruined. She said the dress had got caught up in her scarf and because it was the same color she didn’t realize she had it in her arms. (Her) assistant arrived on Friday afternoon with the money for the dress. The dress is worth GBP500 but we charged GBP250.”

With the store’s manager Nazinna Douglas adding, “She can get everything she wants for free. To her taking a dress means nothing but it’s not something we take lightly. This is our livelihood. It’s just not fair.”

But a spokesman for Geldof insists that the aspiring DJ didn’t do anything wrong, saying, “The claim is totally incorrect. Peaches has a receipt for the supposed stolen dress.

“It was an honest mistake at the time and Peaches went back to the store having been told the dress was missing.

“The payment was made (on Friday) because the store’s credit card machine was not working (on Thursday). She most definitely has not been shoplifting and nothing has been reported to the police.”

Geldof was previously accused of shoplifting in October 2006, when she allegedly took a coat from trendy London store Urban Outfitters. She was allowed to leave after returning to pay for the item.