Bella Daggett has launched a new career selling adult content after spending almost a year in a Dubai prison following her arrest in a drugs raid.
The 23-year-old recruitment consultant had moved to the United Arab Emirates aged 21 to take up a well-paid job, but was detained in March 2025 alongside a man at a property where she had been staying.
Her family maintained that she was innocent and had been caught up in the case because she was in the wrong company and in the wrong place at the wrong time. The allegations against her were eventually dropped in January.
Bella Daggett’s new adult subscription career
Since returning to Britain, Daggett has begun selling provocative photographs and videos through Fansly, an adult subscription platform similar to OnlyFans.
She charges £7.40 a month for access to content featuring her in lingerie, while subscribers seeking what she calls a “girlfriend experience” can pay £148 a month.
Her profile tells potential customers: “Come chat, have some fun and get to know me. I promise you won’t be disappointed.”
A biography on the account adds: “A little cheeky, a little playful, and 100% unforgettable. Slide into my DMs and let’s see what happens.”
Daggett has also appeared under another pseudonym on Stripchat, an adult webcam platform where performers broadcast live to viewers and can receive tips. One follower described her as “the best model on here”.
Before moving to Dubai, Daggett had worked as a self-employed beautician and jointly ran a family-owned modelling agency. Her family said she had accepted the recruitment role in the hope of starting a new life in the Gulf state.
Family’s account of the Dubai detention
The exact charges were not made public by authorities in the UAE. Daggett’s relatives said she had been arrested with a man she was staying with after alternative accommodation arrangements fell through.
Her grandmother, Heather Smith, said during the detention: “Bella has been locked up because she was in the wrong company. Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong boyfriend.”
Mrs Smith also described what she said were the conditions in which her granddaughter was held, claiming that Daggett went a month without a shower and three months without a change of clothes.
“Women get treated far worse than male prisoners, who get to go outside, they get sports, a PlayStation and a television – Bella has nothing,” she said.
Daggett’s mother, Lucinda Smith, 46, launched a fundraising appeal which raised almost £1,500 to help bring her daughter home. She wrote that the family was doing everything possible to prove her innocence and described the conditions as “enough to break any mother’s heart”.
Although the drugs allegations were dropped, Daggett was ordered to pay a fine of around £3,000 for overstaying her visa while she was detained. She returned to Britain in March, almost a year after her arrest.
Daggett is understood to have remained cautious about discussing the ordeal publicly because of the UAE’s strict laws against criticism of the state. In September, she told her 22,000 Instagram followers: “A year ago, I was in the darkest place of my life.
“Looking back at everything I’m so proud of how far I’ve come. So grateful for where I am now, the people around me, and everything life has brought me since then.”
