Nigella Lawson will not face an investigation into allegations she took drugs, police have confirmed.
Scotland Yard said officers will not look into the claims at this stage, but will review the decision should new evidence come to light.
A spokesman said: ‘Allegations that one of the (alleged) victims was involved in taking Class A drugs have been made during the course of this trial. At this stage the Metropolitan Police will not be investigating these allegations.
‘Should any evidence, and that includes material from the trial, that could be investigated come to light this decision will be reviewed.’
Scotland Yard’s statement came soon after a jury found two sisters not guilty of defrauding former employers Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi.
The couple’s former assistants were today acquitted following a three-week trial at Isleworth Crown Court.
Italian sisters Francesca Grillo, 35, and her 41-year-old sister Elisabetta, were accused of using company credit cards to spend £685,000 on themselves including designer shoes and clothes.
The Grillos were employed by the TV cook and her multimillionaire art dealer ex-husband, who were divorced earlier this year.
The jury of seven men and five women was sent out on Thursday morning after a three-week trial.
Mr Saatchi has been accused of using the trial against the Grillos to ‘attack’ his former wife.
The sisters’ defence teams claimed they had been caught in the ‘crossfire’ between the former couple.
The jury heard details of an email sent by Mr Saatchi in which he accused Ms Lawson of being on drugs and branding her ‘Higella’.
However, 53-year-old Ms Lawson, who admitted occasional cocaine and cannabis use to deal with her ‘intolerable’ marriage to Saatchi, told the court the idea that she was a ‘drug addict or habitual user of cocaine is absolutely ridiculous’.
The Grillos, of Bayswater, west London, denied a single count of committing fraud by using a company credit card for personal gain.
