Jessica Michibata's sister says she is 'very worried'

Jessica Michibata’s sister says she is ‘very worried’ for Jensen Button’s model ex-wife after she was arrested on suspicion of possessing MDMA

• Michibata was arrested on Saturday at a hotel Tokyo, local reports said
• Her sister apologised for her sibling ‘making a fuss this time’ on Instagram 

The sister of Jenson Button’s ex-wife has said she is ‘very worried’ after her model sibling was arrested in Japan on suspicion of possessing MDMA over the weekend.

Jessica Michibata, 38, was held after a parcel containing the drug was delivered to a hotel where she was staying in Tokyo with an acquaintance, people familiar with the investigation told the Japan Times earlier this week.

While Jessica – who was married to the Formula One legend from 2014 to 2015 – is yet to comment publicly on her arrest, her sister Angelica Michibata – who is also a model – took to Instagram to express her concern.

In a message accompanied by a picture of a sunset, she apologised on behalf of her sister for ‘making a fuss’ and shared her worries about the reports.

‘I’m sorry that my sister made a fuss this time,’ Angelica wrote on Tuesday.

Jenson Button’s ex-wife Jessica Michibata (pictured), 38, was held after a parcel containing the drug was delivered to a hotel where she was staying with an acquaintance, people familiar with the investigation told the Japan Times earlier this week

While Jessica (left) – who was married to the Formula One legend (right) from 2014 to 2015 – is yet to comment publicly on her arrest, her sister Angelica Michibata – who is also a model – took to Instagram the day of the reports to express her concern

‘I am very worried, but for now I will leave it to the lawyer and the police, and I will trust her and wait for the results.

‘And there is no change in protecting and supporting the family,’ she added.

Michibata denies the allegations, according to local media reports. 

A customs officer reportedly found the synthetic drugs hidden in an overseas package to Japan, with Michibata’s hotel in Tokyo as the shipping address.

Investigators from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department raided the hotel and arrested Michibata and her acquaintance on March 18 (Saturday), reports said.

According to some local reports, the acquaintance was a man Michibata is dating.

Japan’s YTV news interviewed Toru Hirohata, former Chief at the country’s Narcotics Control Department about the case. 

He said that the arrests were likely made through a ‘controlled delivery investigation,’ which would suggest customs officials discovered the drugs in the luggage and replaced them with a counterfeit. 

Information is then shared with police, who track the package. When it is delivered to its final destination, the suspects are arrested red-handed, Mr Hirohata said.

YTV explained the drugs are replaced with fakes in order to prevent the real substance from entering the civilian population, for which customs officials would be culpable if they found them and still allowed them to be delivered.

Jessica Michibata first met F1 driver Jenson Button in 2008 in a hotel bar in Tokyo and they began dating eight months later. Pictured: Jenson Button and then-girlfriend Jessica Michibata celebrate after he won the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix on October 9, 2011

The couple split for a short time in 2011 before he proposed on Valentine’s Day 2014, with a ring worth £250,000. They tied the knot in a lavish Hawaiian ceremony in December 2014. They called time on their relationship just one year later but say they remain on good terms

Pictured: Angelica Michibata, Jessica’s sister, wrote on Instagram on Tuesday: ‘I’m sorry that my sister made a fuss this time. I am very worried, but for now I will leave it to the lawyer and the police, and I will trust her and wait for the results’

Michibata currently resides in the United States for her work as a model. She was born in Japan and was visiting Tokyo at the time of her arrest.

In her most recent post on Instagram, from three weeks ago, the model is seen in a video undertaking an experimental medical treatment.

She explained in her post that the ‘Kambo’ treatment involves putting the ‘poison of frogs that live in the Amazon in South America into the body.’ The video showed her meditating with two other woman, one of whom was seen inhaling through a pipe.

‘As I dive deep into healing myself, it becomes necessary to heal my physical body too,’ she wrote in the post. ‘So grateful to have met this medicine and continue to keep working with it and building a relationship. Gracious Kambo.’

A statement by her modelling agency Revive from Monday said: ‘We apologise to everyone for any concern that the reports of Jessica Michibata, who belongs to our company, have caused.

‘We are currently unable to contact Michibata directly and we are collecting information to confirm the facts. Since the incident is under investigation by the police, we will refrain from disclosing any further details.’ 

Michibata met F1 driver Jenson Button in 2008 in a hotel bar in Tokyo and they began dating eight months later.

They split for a short time in 2011 before he proposed on Valentine’s Day 2014, with a ring worth £250,000.

 Investigators from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department raided the hotel and arrested Michibata (pictured in 2015) and her acquaintance on March 18 (Saturday), reports said

 Pictured: Model Jessica Michibata, who was arrested over the weekend. Local reports said she is suspected of receiving a package containing MDMA

They tied the knot in a lavish Hawaiian ceremony in December 2014. They called time on their relationship just one year later but say they remain on good terms.

She was later linked to American film producer Ken Kao after she attended a film premiere with him in 2017. Later that year, she gave birth to her daughter Joy, whose father’s identity remains unknown.

The relationship with Ken Kao, who co-founded a production company with Hollywood star Ryan Gosling, lasted until 2021, when they reportedly went their separate ways. 

Kao is the only son of multibillionaire Min Kao, a Kansas-based tech tycoon who co-founded GPS giant Garmin.

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