Towie star Jake Hall was battling crippling debts of nearly £1.5 million before his tragic death in Majorca last week.
The 35-year-old reality TV personality was found dead in an Airbnb after running through a single-glazed glass door.
It has now emerged the artist had been struggling financially after his fashion company collapsed, according to the Daily Mail.
Companies House shows his business, Prevu London Limited, went into liquidation in 2025 owing around £1.49 million.
The company reportedly owed £181,581 to HMRC, as well as a £1.1 million loan to an Essex-based property business.
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Prevu London also racked up hundreds of thousands of pounds in debts to other unnamed creditors.
Hall remained the sole director of the company until his death.
One close friend claimed Jake “wanted to live like Cristiano Ronaldo but had the budget of a Towie star”.
“There was a point when Jake was on the show when he had the world at his feet,” the friend said.
“He suddenly had loads of money and his business went well but that had not been the case more recently.
“He would put up a big front but the money wasn’t there any more.”
In the wake of the tragedy, Jake’s devastated family travelled to the Spanish island and visited a sculpture he unveiled there last month.
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His father Greg shared a photograph of himself standing beneath the artwork alongside Jake’s mother and younger brother.
“Thank you so so much for all your love. Visited our Son’s sculpture yesterday,” he wrote.
Close friend David Gomez said the former ITV star had recently returned to Majorca to focus on his artwork.
Jake arrived at the villa in Santa Margalida, in the north of the island, on Tuesday morning.
It is believed he later went out in Palma before returning to the property with two men and three women, all thought to be in their twenties.
The group reportedly continued partying and playing music until around 7:15 am, when neighbors heard a loud crash.
Jake is believed to have mistaken the closed patio door for an open exit to the pool area and accidentally ran straight into the glass.
The single-glazed door, fitted with wooden frames, shattered instantly on impact.
Suffering severe head injuries and deep cuts from shards of glass lodged in his neck and chest, Jake collapsed immediately as friends desperately screamed for help.
Neighbor Rafael, 70, rushed to the villa after hearing the commotion.
He told The Sun he was coming home from an early morning job when three men were running around the empty street begging for help.
The construction worker said: “I found a boy on the floor, I checked his vital signs and he wasn’t breathing.”
“There was glass around his neck and arms and a lot of blood on the floor.”
He told them to call the police and an ambulance, which arrived “immediately”.
“It looked like he ran through the glass patio door thinking it was open but in reality it was closed,” Rafael told the Mail.
“I tried to see if there was anything I could do to help save him but there was sadly no sign of life. He was not breathing and I could feel no pulse.”
Emergency services – including Guardia Civil – arrived by 7:30 am but were unable to save him.
Police later confirmed there was no sign of “criminal activity” and said the death appeared to be a tragic accident.
An autopsy is now underway to determine whether drugs or alcohol may have played a role in the incident.
Footballer and model Jake leaves behind the mother of his child Misse Beqiri who he had an on-off relationship with since 2016.
The couple share a daughter, River, who was born in November 2017.
Deputy Editor & UK News
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