A DIE-HARD US president supporter convicted of scamming money from her local choir to perform at a New York concert and in front of Donald Trump has had her South Lanarkshire home taken as part of bankruptcy proceedings.

Shenna Fox, who is at the centre of an explosive legal battle between porn star Stormy Daniels and Mr Trump has lost her home near Lanark as a result of a court order.

In 2017, she was ordered to complete 180 hours' community service after being convicted of forging Lanark and Carluke Choral Union cheques as part of an attempt to cover the cost of the choir's 2014 trip.

The 34-strong group played the famous Carnegie Hall in January 2015 as part of Martin Luther King Jnr Day and later performed for Trump, but Mrs Fox had not told them that there was a $21,000 fee due to play – and she had gone into debt to pay it.

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Lanark Sheriff Court had heard she cashed cheques bearing the forged signature of the charitable status choir’s treasurer at Lanark’s Clydesdale Bank. The truth only came to light when cheques genuinely presented by the treasurer `bounced’ for lack of funds in the choir account.

Ms Fox, 48, who has previously spoken of playing for Trump at his Turnberry golf resort and striking up a friendship with his security chief Keith Schiller, has claimed she was left hugely out of pocket by the affair as a court heard the bank refunded money from her own account.

It has now been confirmed that Ms Fox, the choir's pianist of six years, and her husband Philip, the chairman, trustee and conductor, who left the union in the wake of the row, have had their home taken as part of a bankruptcy action overseen by the Accountant in Bankruptcy.

Lanark Sheriff Court confirmed that on January 30 a decree by the AiB was granted "to eject" Mr and Mrs Fox from their detached bungalow in the village of Kirkfieldbank no sooner than March 13 in an action titled "recovery of possession of heritable properties". It is the result of a bankruptcy petition filed by South Lanarkshire Council in February, 2016.

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The house has been put on the market.

Ms Fox recently said that "rumours in the town have forced me to move away".

Lanark and Carluke Choral Union secretary Margaret Hamilton speaking for the first time about the forgery affair said members would not stump up the charge to play at Carnegie Hall, because they were never told by Ms Fox that the invite to play came at a price. She said they probably would not have gone had the 34-strong group who went had to pay to play.

The choir members stumped up the cash for their air fares, food and accommodation by themselves, she said.

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Fox's solicitor confirmed she had hid the fee “fearing that they would cancel the trip” and foolishly tried to pay the bill herself, contributing $5000 from her own pocket and borrowing the remaining $16,000 from an unnamed Lanark choir supporter. Private gain was “never her motive”, he said.

Mrs Hamilton said they were invited to perform at what they thought was a charity concert at Carnegie Hall and that Mrs Fox made it "quite clear there were no fees involved in that". "She was adamant we had a special invitation and there was no fee to play. On that basis quite a lot of the choir, just over 30, thought that's okay, we will go," she said.

But the pay to play bill only emerged a few months after they returned after there were "strange goings on in our bank account", she said.

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"She paid it without telling anyone and we took the view that we had no legal liability because she had no authority to pay that money. She paid it off her own back.

"She said she wanted this trip because it meant such a lot to her husband, our conductor, Philip Fox, and she didn't want to disappoint him. So she kept the bill quiet.

"The choir have not done anything wrong in this."

She said one of the consequences of the case was they had to cancel a major concert in 2016 because their account had been frozen pending inquiries into the forgery.

Mrs Fox would not discuss the the order when asked, but said she had not moved from the area.

Earlier she said: "Yes, some time ago now I had covered the whole cost from my savings. Which I now have nothing left. An amount like that would have an effect on anyone’s finances.

"One person helped out at the time with some of the last minute fees. This guy was not a choir member. When we came back from New York he had to be paid back. I had almost run out of money. I forged a check to pay him. To get him off my back.

"Ok. I’m not saying what I did was right...."

An AiB spokesman said: "The case you mention is still a live bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was a creditor petition by South Lanarkshire Council."

South Lanarkshire Council declined to comment on the case.

Documents included in the Stormy Daniels' defamation case against Trump cited a social media post from Ms Fox in her case.

The case centres on alleged threats made against Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, who claims she was threatened by a man in a Las Vegas car park to drop her allegations of an affair with Mr Trump.

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Last month, Mr Trump retweeted a sketch of the man alleged to have made the threats, calling it "a total con job", in response to a post by Ms Fox, which suggested the image actually resembled Daniels' ex-husband.

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It marked the first time Donald Trump publicly acknowledged Stormy Daniels’ affair claims and subsequent attempts to suppress them.

But the US president faced a fresh storm after court documents were published claiming that Trump's statement - in response to Ms Fox’s tweet - was "false and defamatory" and provoked death threats "causing her both emotional and economic damages".

In the wake of the incident sparked by Ms Fox’s social media post, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel mocked the Scottish musician.

He told his audience of millions, "Turns out this meme [sketch] came from a supporter of his from Scotland, her name is Shenna Fox, she is a fanatical Trump fan, and believe it or not she is actually guilty of a con job herself."

Kimmel said: "And this is who he is retweeting. Someone he should probably have a restraining order against.

"Even the idea that the president is scrolling through Twitter looking for things to retweet is nuts. It is absolutely nuts."