Samantha Karen Fox est un mannequin, une chanteuse et une actrice anglaise, née le 15 avril 1966 à Mile End (Londres) en Angleterre, qui a connu son heure de gloire internationale dans les années 1980.

C'est surtout sa carrière de chanteuse qui l'a fait connaître dans le monde entier. Elle a vendu plus de 35 millions de disques en seulement trois albums.

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Fox's father Patrick, a former carpenter, managed her career until 1991, when she hired accountants to trace over £1 million that she believed he had embezzled from her accounts. She sued her father, who by then had divorced and remarried, and in May 1995 she was awarded a £363,000 court settlement. Patrick Fox died in 2000, at which time they had not spoken for almost a decade.

In 1994, it was reported that Fox had become a born again Christian; that year she played at the Christian arts festival Greenbelt.

In the late 1980s Fox became romantically linked with Australian con man Peter Foster. They began dating but she turned down his marriage proposal. She also had a relationship with Paul Stanley, guitarist and singer of the rock band Kiss. Rumours regarding Fox's sexual orientation began to surface in 1999 when she judged a lesbian beauty pageant, and rumours circulated that the woman she resided with—Cris Bonacci, the Australian former guitarist for the rock band Girlschool—was her lover. Though the two women did live in the same residence together, neither stated publicly that they were lovers. The relationship was confirmed later by Bonacci in an interview. Prior to Bonacci, Fox shared her home with Debbie Connor, but again she herself never stated that they were romantically linked, only that they were "best mates".

In February 2003, Fox made a statement about her personal life: "I have slept with other women but I've not been in love before Myra Stratton. People say I'm gay....I don't know what I am. All I know is that I'm in love with Myra [Stratton, my manager]. I love her completely and want to spend the rest of my life with her." Fox said that she had been reluctant to come out because, having already dealt with obsessed fans and stalkers, she feared fans' possible reactions. In August 2009, she announced her plans to form a civil partnership with Stratton.

On 2 August 2015, Fox's long-term partner, Stratton, died following a two-year battle with cancer. She was 60 years old. Fox announced the news via Twitter and Facebook: "It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Myra Stratton. She was Samantha Fox's partner and manager for the past 16 years.