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    Julia Haart’s fraud case against her ex, Silvio Scaglia, is back on track

    By Oli Coleman,

    11 hours ago

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    Julia Haart’s fraud suit against ex husband and business partner Silvio Scaglia was dismissed. Getty Images

    Julia Haart is celebrating a victory in her courtroom war with former business partner and husband Silvio Scaglia — one that could end up costing him a quarter of a billion dollars.

    It’s a bit of a legal brain-twister. Ready?

    When Haart told Scaglia she was divorcing him in 2022, he fired her from Elite World Group , the top modeling agency they ran together, which has represented Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Irina Shayk, Winnie Harlow and Behati Prinsloo, among many others.

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    But now an appeals judge has sent the case back to the courtroom for a hearing. Way Up With Angela Yee

    Modeling boss Silvio Scaglia tells court he’s so broke he needs a free lawyer — yet seems to have spent the summer on yachts and private jets around Europe

    Haart sued him, claiming he couldn’t fire her since she owned half the business — so she’d have to agree to fire herself.

    But when a judge said that company documents showed that she did not, in fact, own half the business, she sued Scaglia — plus his business partner, his accountant and his accountant’s firm — for fraud.

    She alleged in that suit that the group had led her to believe that she’d been given half the company instead of a salary — even though, she alleged, they knew that Scaglia had squirreled away some secret shares that meant that he still secretly owned a controlling majority of the firm.

    A judge tossed her suit in 2023.

    Judge orders Silvio Scaglia, Julia Haart’s ex, to be jailed for 20 days for contempt of court

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    The “My Unorthodox Life” star claims that Scaglia tricked her into believing she’d been given half the company in lieu of a salary. Netflix

    But now — after reviewing a trove of paperwork — an appeals court judge has overturned the dismissal, and the case is finally going to court, according to documents seen by Page Six.

    Haart — a former ultra-orthodox Jew who took the fashion world by storm after leaving the small orthodox enclave of Monsey, New York, and has since starred in Netflix show “My Unorthodox Life” — is jubilant, telling Page Six that she feels that a court has finally “looked at the facts.”

    “For the last two years and eight months these men have made a mockery of our court system,” she said, “These men with their fancy suits and fancy degrees sold the world a fiction so large you could drive a squadron of tanks through them and yet people believed them. In the world’s eyes, I was a no one from nowhere, with no degree and no pedigree.”

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    Haart says she’s owed a billion dollars. Getty Images for Elite World Gro

    She said she was, “One woman with a mountain full of evidence against [men] without a shred of evidence, and they kept winning.”

    She’s seeking $250,000,000 each from Scaglia, business partner Paolo Barbieri, Scaglia’s accountant Jeffrey Feinman and Feinman’s firm, the accountancy giant DDK and Company.

    So if she wins the now-reinstated court case, she could walk away a billionaire.

    Meanwhile, Scaglia has other legal woes. As Page Six previously reported , a judge in their divorce case has issued a warrant for his arrest and imprisonment for 20 days because he has failed to show up in court and failed to pay her $300,000 as he was ordered.

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