Italian-American actress, Julia Fox has reacted to the news of her father and her brother being arrested on drug and weapons charges.
The model’s father, Thomas and brother, Christopher were both arrested on Wednesday by the police in New York city they raided their Manhattan apartment and discovered ghost guns, drugs, and bomb making materials.
The raid in their apartment was part of a larger ghost gun investigation. Once inside, officers found several ghost guns — which are guns without traceable serial numbers — as well as pills, a pill press, pressure cookers, fentanyl, chloroform, heroin, propane, formaldehyde, and materials often used to make explosives. Thousands of dollars of high-end wine bottles were also reportedly recovered.
Julia Fox was out of town during the raid and is not believed to have known about her family’s alleged crimes.
According to Page Six reports, here friends said she has been completely shocked by the arrest, and that neither her brother nor their father, has a prior criminal history.
A source reportedly told PageSix that the 33-yeae-old thinks her brother Chris is “brilliant,” but added, “while Julia has found a creative path after a difficult childhood, he’s struggled to believe in himself enough to put his mind to use.”
Julia Fox has previously spoken about growing up in the city with her single dad and brother, who she has also said she didn’t see often.
Fox described her brother as a “mad scientist” type who liked to do experiments, but said he was a gentle guy who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“He’s like a mad scientist recluse,” Julia previously has said of her brother in the interview. “He builds 3D printers for fun.”
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