Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht: He has had massive money problems that long

Around three years ago, the tax persecution of Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht in the first season of the reality format “This ox servant” was still part of the entertainment, now the situation is serious and the son of the well-known actor Uwe Ochsenknecht has been lying behind bars for almost three weeks.

Luxury life without a driver’s license, tax investigation, mountains of debt – dear money was always a double -edged sword for Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht. He had ten cars at the age of 18, although he had no driver’s license. He was already humorous in family reality TV format. Today the 33-year-old actor is in a completely different light. Less because of the headlight light of his acting roles. But because of the headlines for financial bottlenecks.

“Everyone has a completely own character, but somehow we are all the same-and we are not all normal,” said Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht once about his family in the reality series “These Oxenknechts”. With Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, this sentence is particularly true for his handling of money.

In the said series, an incident attracted particularly great attention in 2022. The tax investigation suddenly appeared when his sister visited Austria. The accusation was tax escape at the time. Ochsenknecht allegedly had an open tax liability of around 1,000 euros. Investigators confronted him in front of the camera: “They tried to reach them, they ignored the briefs and then they found that they are abroad, which can be interpreted as a tax escape.” In the end, however, the scene turned out to be a staged prank for his mother Natascha’s birthday – with actors, fake ID and script.

At that time, however, nobody knew how close this joke was to the truth. Because the debt of 14,000 euros plus interest, which is currently being designed as a fraud due to refusal to pay, he made in 2021.

There were later insight into his financial situation by ex-girlfriend Yeliz Koc in the jungle camp. In the relationship, which continues from 2020 to 2021, Jimi apparently lived on pump. No maintenance paid for daughter Snow, unpaid rental shares, debts, police visits. “He did not pay any maintenance all year round,” said Yeliz on the RTL show. And further: “Then the police were sometimes at the door. (…) Where it was said that if the 50 euros are not paid now, he has to go to the jail. I have stopped things like that – of course, of course.” For seven months, the actor had to cope with a garnishment protection account in 2021. 1100 euros stayed with him a month.

In early 2025, KOC described how Jimi parted with her, without a firm stay: “At some point there were all things from Jimi in my apartment (…). There were his suitcase, bags, boxes in the basement. And then I just said: ‘That is not possible!'” Nevertheless, she helped him again this time. Now that Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht is deep in the mud alkaline, it was Yeliz Koc, who pulled out the wallet without hesitation and will be able to make his open invoices with a restaurateur.

And apparently there are other creditors. A restaurateur from Graz has reported in the past few days. At the request of the “Bild”, the public prosecutor there confirmed that there was a procedure for fraud against Ochsenknecht, which had already been discontinued due to limitation. “In March 2022, he is said to have consumed in two local dishes and drinks in a total value of 1900 euros in the run -up to his sister’s wedding,” says prosecutor Dr. Christian Kroschl.

While Jimi Blue is in custody, the new reality show “Villa of the temptation” started. The show recently recorded showed a deep look – especially in Ochsenknecht’s finances. There he revealed: “I like beautiful things. I’ve had debt a few times. But at the moment I really have, no idea, 250,000 debts. That is blatant.”

So far, the celebrity son has not proven a happy hand when it comes to business. Years ago he founded a CBD company, but when the investor jumped off, Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht was said to have stayed at the expense. The pandemic tightened the situation, tax payments did the rest. “At some point the whole thing grew over my head. I no longer opened my letters. Always the best solution, maybe the tax will forget you,” he said once with bitter sarcasm. But the judiciary doesn’t forget. Ochsenknecht had to learn that on the hard tour. According to the “picture”, he threatens up to three years in prison for serious fraud.