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Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart is suing her “billionaire” estranged husband and former Bill Clinton lawyer for defamation, on the latest front of the ex-couple’s courtroom war.
In the fiery file, Haart claims that former billionaire Silvio Scaglia used a team to smear her in the tabloids, calling him “a riotous schemer and liar” and Lanny Davis, Bill Clinton’s attorney and Hillary champion “a reckless publicist and notorious sleaze.” trader’.
Scaglia’s lawyers responded with an equally inflammatory response, telling DailyMail.com that Haart is a “swindler” and calling her lawsuit “a publicity stunt by a desperate and sad litigant.”
Haart, 51, and Scaglia, 63, have fought over the terms of their divorce and the fate of their modeling company, Elite, in the courtrooms of New York and Delaware, both with stinging allegations of lies, cheating and financial cheating.
In a complaint filed in New York on Wednesday, Haart accused Scaglia of orchestrating an “evil campaign” to portray her as a “temptress” who “squanders frivolously.” [Elite’s] cash and other assets behind his back’.
Haart even claimed that the Swiss businessman once threatened to ‘kill’ [her] in a second’ if she ever challenged him.
Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart is suing her ‘billionaire’ estranged husband Silvio Scaglia and former Bill Clinton’s attorney for defamation
On the file, she called Bill Clinton’s former attorney and Hillary champion Lanny Davis “a reckless publicist and notorious sleaze trader.”
Haart and Scaglia (pictured together in 2017) have fought over the terms of their divorce and the fate of their modeling company, Elite, in New York and Delaware courtrooms
The Netflix star claims that Scaglia and Davis made up a story about how in 2015 she paid a friend to introduce her to the billionaire so she could seduce him, and that she scammed their company Elite World Group (EWG). to pay for her own plastic surgery and clothing.
Haart starred in the hit Netflix series last year, which focused on her rise in the fashion industry after she left her strictly religious household at the age of 42.
She claims that she instead sent the company from financial ruin to a billion dollar valuation, and that her ex is the one who used company money for personal expenses.
Haart, 51, broke away from Haredi’s “ultra-Orthodox” Jewish community in 2013 and made a popular Netflix documentary about it: My Unorthodox Life.
She became a successful fashion designer and married Scaglia, 63, in 2019.
He originally made his fortune through telecom company Fastweb and bought modeling agency Elite World Group (EWG) in 2011.
Haart claims that Scaglia had lost nearly all of his money by the time they married, but that she “transformed EWG from a failing modeling agency to a global media company,” pushing the valuation from $70 million in 2018 to between $700 million and $1. .1 billion, according to a 2021 investment bank assessment.
In other pending lawsuits, Haart alleges that he promised her half of the stock in the company in lieu of full pay as CEO of EWG. Scaglia says his wife mischaracterized the deal, it never went through, and Haart now owns “less than 0.01 percent” of the company — and judges have so far sided with his version.
In February of this year, Haart also requested a restraining order against Scaglia, accusing him of partner violence. Last month, a New York family court dismissed the claims, saying they were “misleading” and that her statements were “not credible.”
In DailyMail.com’s fiery legal filing, Haart claims that Scaglia used a team to smear her in the tabloids, calling him “a riotous schemer and liar.”
Judge Douglas Hoffman said in a 29-page ruling that Haart’s testimony “changed in a meaningful way from pleading to pleading and affidavit to affidavit.”
Haart had claimed that the Swiss businessman had once threatened to “kill” her if she ever provoked him. But Hoffman concluded that the threat, “I’ll kill you in public,” was about her reputation, not a threat of violence.
In the final front of their legal war, Haart now accuses Scaglia of spreading lies about her.
Among the defamations that Haart says she has been subjected to is a February 2022 press release issued by Davis accusing her of an “unauthorized transfer” of $850,000 of their company’s cash that was “illegal” and “possibly criminally conductive.” ‘ used to be.
Haart says the money was “owed to her as a management fee” and that she was authorized to withdraw it.
She claims that Scaglia himself or one of his team members told the New York Post that Haart had taken his Bentley “without permission” and that she was “wanted by the police for stealing a car.”
She says the car was leased together by the estranged couple, that Scaglia had its own second Bentley, that she regularly used the luxury car, and that the NYPD found “no criminal conduct” in the investigation.
Haart is suing Scaglia, claiming he defrauded her of half of their $700 million modeling agency business
Haart alleges that Scaglia again defamed her in July by allegedly having one of his team members tell the Post that she was a “fraudster” who “misrepresented herself” and paid a friend to introduce her to Scaglia in 2015 so she could seduce him.
‘She flew all the way’ [to Tokyo] just to meet me and I now know she paid people to be introduced to me,” Scaglia said in July Post’s story. “This was all to make me fall in love with her.”
In her lawsuit, Haart claims that she had in fact arranged to meet with Elite co-investor Louis Pong for a deal to get her shoe designs into the Asian market and that it had nothing to do with Scaglia.
When Haart first became acquainted with Scaglia in 2015, she had left the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, New York, only two years earlier and was still relatively naive to the outside world, the lawsuit said.
“It was Scaglia who was unfaithful to his first wife long before he met Haart, and it was Scaglia who had an affair with Haart’s predecessor at EWG, Stefania Valenti, the CEO of EWG just before Haart.”
However, Scaglia’s attorney, Robert Wallack, reacted double to her defamation complaint, telling DailyMail.com, “This is nothing more than a publicity stunt by a desperate and distressed litigant.”
‘Madam. Haart IS a scammer who paid to be introduced to Mr. Scaglia, she refused to return the company’s Bentley, and she took $850k in company funds without authorization. And the court has already found that Mr. Scaglia NEVER threatened to kill her,” Wallack said.
‘Madam. Haart lost the business case, she lost the family crime case and now she is losing in the divorce. Courts in two states have ruled that she is a liar, and her filing of yet another frivolous lawsuit does not change that fact.
“If Ms Haart thinks these antics will restore her image or make it relevant, she’s wrong, because she’s already been exposed for what she is – an impostor.”
Haart claims that Scaglia had already hired her as the creative director for their fashion line La Perla when their romantic relationship began.
They split in 2021, but agreed to postpone the divorce until after they made EWG public or sold it privately.
But according to the lawsuit, Haart canceled their agreement and filed for divorce after Scaglia allegedly siphoned $1.5 million from their shared management company in February of this year — after which she says his “defamatory” defamation began.