Katie Price Severs Business Ties With Peter Andre

Katie Price today took steps to end her business relationship with her estranged husband Peter Andre.The model severed ties with management company Can Associates Limited, which represented the couple throughout their three-and-a-half year marriage.The decision will been seen as the first move in the businesswoman's bid to protect her £30 million fortune in the split.

The organisation will continue to represent singer Andre, 36, who was today being supported by his brothers at the villa in Cyprus he built as a holiday home for his family.Can Associates said in a statement: 'We have represented Katie since February 2004, during that time we have worked hard to build Katie as a successful individual and brand, moving her from a glamour model and repositioning her as the country's foremost female celebrity, with a string of products and successful endorsements.

'We wish Katie every success for the future.'Australian Andre, whose family originate from Cyprus, fled to Pervolia, 10 miles from Larnaca, where he was pictured today.He was dressed in flipflops, jeans and a black t-shirt and refused to answer questions from the press.Before the split: Last night the couple appeared onscreens at the British Soap Awards, filmed the night before the break-up.Katie, 30, is with the couple's two youngest children in the Maldives, where she and Andre spent their honeymoon.