A model and Instagram influencer wept in court as she avoided jail today after admitting a £21,000 benefits scam and spending the cash on luxury holidays.
Lauryn Goodman, 28, older sister of former glamour model and Celebrity Big Brother star Chloe, 25, claimed housing benefit and income support for three years despite having other streams of income.
Hove Crown Court heard she spent the cash on a £3,500 to Las Vegas and a skiing trip to upmarket French resort Les Arcs, both accompanied by her sister.
Goodman, who describes herself as a social media influence and runs a beauty blog but also works for HSBC, wept in the dock as she was told the swindle was serious enough for her to be sent to jail.
Hove Crown Court was told Goodman, who describes herself as a 'social media influencer', had lied when she had filled in application forms for income support and housing benefit.
She was handed a seven-month suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 200 hours on unpaid work.
Model and Instagram influencer Lauryn Goodman, right, has avoided jail today after admitting falsely claiming £21,000 in benefits between December 2013 and December 2016. She is pictured outside Hove Crown Court with reality TV star sister Chloe, left
Goodman, 28, pictured right and left (right in both) with Ex on the Beach star Chloe, 25, spent the cash on trips to Las Vegas and skiing in France alongside her sister, the court heard
She claimed £21,007.76 but did not tell the the Department for Work and Pensions that she had other income from an insurance policy, several different bank accounts and a joint mortgage with her mother on a house in Portslade, Brighton.
The court heard she wrongly claimed the money between December 2013 to December 2016.
Piers Power, prosecuting, said that when she was interviewed in February 2017 she claimed the bank accounts belonged to her mother and she had no access to them,
He told the court she claimed her ISA containing a large sum of money belonged to her father and added she had 'no interest' in the property in Portslade.
Investigators found an undeclared bank account and discovered payments for a ski
