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== Personal life == In the early 1990s, Price had a relationship with [[drum and bass]] artist [[Kemistry]], who died in a car accident in 1999.<ref>Alister Morgan, "Obituary: Kemi Olusanya", ''The Independent'', 6 May 1999.</ref> He was romantically involved with Icelandic singer [[Björk]] in 1996.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> His relationship with Björk, and her previous relationship that year with [[Massive Attack]] member [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]], upset [[Ricardo Lopez (stalker)|Ricardo Lopez]], an obsessed Björk fan, who was angered by the fact that Björk was in a relationship with a black man (in both Price’s and Tricky’s case) and, on September 12, 1996, sent an explosive device to Björk, disguised as a book, which was designed to spray [[sulfuric acid]] on her face, disfiguring her or killing her. Lopez then went back to his apartment, shaved off all the hair on his head, and painted his face and head red and green, before shooting himself, all of which he filmed. The device failed to reach Björk because Lopez’s body, and his plans, were discovered before the package was delivered, and the device was defused by [[Scotland Yard]].<ref name="abcnews1">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132422|title=Inside the Mind of a Celebrity Stalker|date=December 11, 1996|publisher=ABC News|access-date=December 11, 2023}}</ref> In 1998, Price bought a country house in [[Bovingdon]], Hertfordshire.<ref name="independent06"/><ref name="guardian03">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2003/sep/06/features.jobsmoney4 |title=More by luck than judgement |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 September 2003 |access-date=12 May 2009 |location=London |first=Mark |last=Ansted}}</ref> Price married model Sonjia Ashby in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2012/07/26/goldie-s-ex-wife-sonjia-ashby-launches-lap-dancing-club-in-southport-101022-31472703/ |title=Local and community news, opinion, video & pictures |publisher=Southport Visiter |access-date=18 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000259/http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2012/07/26/goldie-s-ex-wife-sonjia-ashby-launches-lap-dancing-club-in-southport-101022-31472703/ |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> They divorced in 2005.<ref name="independent06"/> As of 2003, he had five children, including social content creator Danny Price, who has appeared on Channel 4 reality show ''[[Make Me Prime Minister]]''.<ref name="guardian03"/><ref>{{Cite instagram |user=dannyfuckingprice |title=Danny Price |postid=https://www.instagram.com/dannyfuckingprice/ |date=2022 |access-date=9 January 2022 |link=https://www.instagram.com/dannyfuckingprice/}}</ref> In 2007, Goldie began a relationship with Mika Wassenaar, a Canadian. The couple appeared in the 20 June 2009 episode of ITV's ''[[All Star Mr & Mrs]]'' with [[Phillip Schofield]] and [[Fern Britton]]. Mika and Price married in 2010.<ref name=observer>Lynn Barber, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/19/goldie-the-interview Goldie: The interview], ''The Observer'', 19 July 2009.</ref> On 29 April 2010, Price opened the William Tyndale Primary School Sports Pitch in [[Islington]], London.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Tyndale Sports Pitch |url=https://www.williamtyndale-islington.co.uk/community/william-tyndale-sports-pitch}}</ref> In July 2010, Price received an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences from [[Brunel University]], Uxbridge.<ref name=brunel>[http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news/cdata/goldie+degre Honorary degree for artist and musician Goldie]{{dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Brunel University, 20 July 2010, accessed 21 July 2010.</ref> On 3 September 2010, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Design from the [[University of Wolverhampton]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=24857 |title=2010 Clifford Price (Goldie) |publisher=Wlv.ac.uk |access-date=18 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203041608/http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Default.aspx?page=24857 |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> On 7 September 2010, Price's 23-year-old son Jamie Price was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]], with a minimum sentence of 21 years, for murder. He was convicted of stabbing a rival gang member to death in Wolverhampton town centre on 24 August 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-black-country-11215348 |title=Wolverhampton gang member jailed for murder |publisher=BBC News |date=7 September 2010}}</ref> As of 2017, Price and his wife were living in Thailand, having moved there in 2015.<ref name="djmag2017"/> Price was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2016 New Year Honours]] awards, for services to music and young people.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61450 |supp=y|page=N23|date=30 December 2015}}</ref> Price was accused of assaulting a security guard at the 2017 Glastonbury festival after the guard had refused to let Price's daughter, Chance, backstage; Price later emailed a response which read, "Yep, guilty as charged", but in March 2018, district judge Lynn Matthews at Bristol Magistrates' Court rejected Price's emailed response and in a video call Price later admitted to assault by beating.<ref name="BBC News 15 March 2018">{{cite web |title=Goldie appears in court via FaceTime from Thailand |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-43419794 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=15 March 2018 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=15 March 2018}}</ref> On 30 May Bristol Magistrates' Court ordered Goldie to pay almost £2,500 as a fine.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-44308393 |title=Goldie fined for Glastonbury assault |date=30 May 2018 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=31 May 2018 |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2017, Price appeared to reveal the first name of pseudonymous graffiti artist [[Banksy]] as "Rob" on [[Scroobius Pip]]'s weekly ''[[Distraction Pieces Podcast]]'' (Episode #156). When discussing the rise of commercialism in street art, Price said, "Give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write Banksy on it and we're sorted. We can sell it now... No disrespect to Rob, I think he is a brilliant artist. I think he has flipped the world of art over."<ref>{{cite news |title=Did Goldie just reveal who Banksy is? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40379603 |access-date=5 October 2019 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=23 June 2017}}</ref>
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