Star of My Unorthodox Life, Julia Haart, had a huge win in her divorce from Silvio Scaglia. The 53-year-old reality TV star, who also ran Elite World Group (a global modeling agency) and luxe lingerie firm La Perla with her ex-partner, was awarded control of the business and a significant payout.
- Page Six reports that Julia was also awarded the $65 million apartment they lived in, as well as nearly $10 million in cash.
- The pair split in 2022 and have since been embroiled in a bitter court battle.
Julia found fame when she starred in Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life. At 42, she left her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community 36 miles north of New York City without her first husband’s knowledge and became a successful fashion designer. Six years after fleeing the religious community, the mother of four married Silvio Scaglia in 2019, a wealthy businessman who acquired model management company Elite World Group.
For years, Haart secretly sold life insurance, which helped raise enough money to leave the strict Haredi community. According to Medium, Julia claims she felt she had to exit the community because “A woman basically has one purpose: to follow her husband and to be a baby-making machine.”
Her first business was a shoe company before becoming the creative director of La Perla. The brand has dressed some of the most famous women in the world, most famously creating Kendall Jenner’s 2017 Met Gala dress.
Here’s What Led To Julia Haart And Silvio Scaglia’s Split
According to USA Today, Julia Haart explained that the couple split due to the way Silvio Scaglia treated her four children. She realized “divorce is the only option” when her youngest son, Aron, was upset that his stepfather was ignoring him.
The Netflix reality star admitted she was brokenhearted that her son was feeling ignored and didn’t understand what he did wrong. Julia ultimately realized that things were never going to change between Silvio and her children, and he would never “fall in love with” them. “That is what forced me to wake up and say, ‘Julia, this man is not changing. And if you love your children, this has to stop.’”

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Silvio defended himself in the Season 2 premiere of My Unorthodox Life, telling Julia. “My problem is that your life is ruled by your children, and I don’t want my life to be (ruled) by your children because I have different approaches to life.”
I had been brought up (believing) my entire purpose was to be subservient and obedient to a man. It was his needs and concerns that were my sole focus if I wanted to be a righteous woman.
Where to Watch Julia Haart | Year(s) |
Dynasty | 2018 |
Lying and Stealing | 2019 |
My Unorthodox Life | 2021-2022 |
Inside Julia Haart And Silvio Scaglia’s Bitter Divorce
Julia Haart and Silvio Scaglia had been battling through the courts across multiple lawsuits for nearly three years. Silvio allegedly fired Julia when she told the Italian-born businessman that she was leaving him, Page Six reports.
- Julia sued Silvio, saying he couldn’t fire her because she owned half their business.
- The Daily Mail reports Julia’s claims her estranged husband gave her half of Freedom Holding, which owns EWG and their luxury apartment, as a thank-you for running his firm.
- Silvio denies this, claiming Julia only owns a small portion of the company.
- He accused her of misappropriating millions of dollars from the company and using the company Bentley without permission.
- According to ScreenRant, she denied the “ludicrous” allegations and he failed to deliver the proof in court.
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Julia Won Big Time
After a bitter court case, Julia came out on top in every area. Judge Jeffrey Pearlman granted Julia a default judgment in the divorce after Silvio Scaglia stopped engaging in the proceedings. According to Page Six, the businessman had an arrest warrant put out for him after he failed to show up to court and pay his ex-wife $300,000.
- The judge ruled that Silvio owed his wife $300,000 in legal fees.
- Daily Mail noted that she received a “50% interest in Freedom Holding and power of attorney” over her estranged husband.
- Julia was also granted their shared 16-room Tribeca triplex penthouse, where she had been living since their split.
- She was awarded $7,400,000 to use for management fees that went unpaid.
- More interestingly, Julia won $2,972,632 from a Kees Van Dongen painting that was owned by Freedom Holding.
Julia Haart told Page Six about the “gratitude” she felt at winning her ongoing legal dispute. “Throughout this journey, I held steadfast to my belief in truth and justice, deeply trusting that if I stayed the course, the truth would ultimately prevail and the wrongs done to me would be made right.”
I am profoundly grateful to God for granting me the strength to persevere and to Judge Pearlman for holding Silvio accountable and ensuring that justice was served.
How Did Julia Haart And Silvio Scaglia Meet?
PEOPLE reports that Julia Haart and Silvio Scaglia met in 2015 when her shoe brand collaborated with his fashion label, La Perla. The following year. she was hired as the creative director for La Perla.
Julia had been married previously and had four children with Yosef Hendler, who she wed when she was 19 in an arranged ceremony. She described the matrimony as a “prison” and revealed Silvio gave her “freedom and individuality.” Julia admitted she had known her husband for two years before she explained her past of growing up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, New York.
“He was the C.E.O. So he was there a lot. The first year of our interaction was me yelling at him. I was horrible to him. But I had a lot of respect for him,” she told The New York Times. “As sheltered as my life had been, his life had been the diametric opposite. He’d been everywhere. He’d seen everything. And when I yelled at him, he took it like a man. That made me happy.”
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Page Six dropped a bombshell article in 2022, claiming Julia had paid someone to meet Silvio. The report claims she flew to Tokyo for a 40-minute meeting with Silvio in April 2015. Louis Pong, a close friend of Silvio, admitted his regret at introducing the pair as she was obviously trying to seduce him.
“She flew all the way just to meet me and I know now that she paid people to be introduced to me,” he told the outlet. “She claimed to have patents which she did not. This was all to make me fall in love with her.” Julia has always denied these allegations.
Silvio was the founder of Fastweb, an Italian telecommunications operator, and according to Forbes, his alleged net worth was over $1 billion.
Silvio’s Shady Past
His life hadn’t been without controversy. In 2010 he was arrested as part of a $2.7 billion, tax fraud and money laundering scheme, according to the New York Times. He spent a year in prison and house arrest after being charged with criminal conspiracy to commit tax fraud. He was acquitted in 2013.
Watch My Unorthodox Life on Netflix.