The lover who betrayed Peaches Geldof by revealing lewd pictures of her after a one-night stand was once arrested for allegedly holding a woman at knifepoint.

Wealthy student Ben Bluett-Mills, 23, bragged about Peaches, 21, saying she took heroin with him, and posted her nude photos online.

Three years earlier, he allegedly threatened to kill a fellow student with a knife in Madison, New Jersey, say police reports. He was freed on £6,000 bail.

Later, Mills is said to have been charged for trying to bribe witnesses to drop evidence - and again freed on bail of £12,000.

Peaches - whose dad Sir Bob masterminded Live Aid and mum Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose - denies taking drugs during the night with Mills.

Her lawyers said in a statement: "The allegations that our client was carrying and injecting heroin are denied, our client having consumed alcohol with the other individual leading to the 'highs' described and portrayed in the photographs."