Swimsuit model arrested after month on lam BRISBANE, Australia, March 19 (UPI) -- A swimsuit model accused of running a methamphetamine ring says she skipped bail in Australia because she was afraid "someone was trying to murder me." Simone Farrow, 37, who was re-arrested in Queensland on Australia's Gold Coast and extradited to Sydney last week after being at large for more than a month, told The Sunday Telegraph of Sydney she had gone into hiding when she skipped bail out of fear for her life. "The only reason I've done this is because someone was trying to murder me," Farrow said. I've been in ... relationships with numerous underworld figures, or whatever you want to call them, and I feel that maybe they feel threatened by my situation. I wasn't trying to flee the country at all; I was trying to protect myself from being killed or harmed. Farrow is accused of running a worldwide methamphetamine ring out of a Hollywood apartment. ABC News reported the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Australian authorities said she had used 19 aliases to ship methamphetamine by FedEx and through the mail. She was first arrested in October 2009 after flying to Australia while the DEA was raiding her Los Angeles apartment, allegedly seizing drugs and documents. A friend had posted her $150,000 bond in Australia in February. Australian authorities say Farrow, who had used the name Simone Starr as a bikini model and a one-time Penthouse "pet," had been dealing crystal methamphetamine she hid in shipments of bath salts.