![]() ![]() The pair demanded money and the rep claimed that Pong helped to stop them “threatening and harassing” Haart. A rep for Haart said that, as written in Haart’s book, a driver in Paris who worked with a cousin of Pong offered to introduce her to him in exchange for a percentage of sales. Pong now claims that Haart had promised to pay the staffer and the staffer’s cousin for the introduction - and said he found out when the pair came to him in 2016 asking for the cash after Haart did not pay them. She said she wanted help in selling her shoes to Lane Crawford, one of the biggest department stores in Hong Kong. ![]() Pong, who is the Asian Partner of Pacific Capital, the former holding company of Scaglia’s Elite World Group, first met Haart through a staffer at his hospitality business, Lifestyle Generation, in January 2015. Indeed, Hart’s own origin story has been questioned by many who grew up with her, who say she did not suffer any abuse in her traditional Jewish neighborhood. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Elite World Group Scaglia said he supported Haart by being on her Netflix reality show. “In reality she had nothing … She was just a bulk of lies from the very beginning,” Scaglia claimed to The Post. I once said to them, what made you invest in me? One of them said, ‘Julia, you just looked like you wouldn’t fail, and we just trusted that.'” Third investor in an eye doctor’s office,” she told the New York Times in July 2021. “I found investors in the craziest places. In late 2012, Haart had left her marriage and the conservative Jewish fundamentalist community in Monsey to start a career as a shoe designer. This was all to make me fall in love with her.” Haart denied having a plan to seduce Scaglia. “She claimed to have patents which she did not. ![]() ![]() “She flew all the way just to meet me and I know now that she paid people to be introduced to me,” he said. Silvio Scaglia, her estranged husband, said Haart mis-represented herself as a successful business woman. Scaglia, 63, told The Post how he fell for his wife, believing she was an astute businesswoman. “Do I regret introducing them? Absolutely.”Ī rep for Haart insisted that Pong, in fact, had warned Haart about Scaglia, calling him a “bad guy” and “egotistical.” Pong denied this. “In my view she was not truly in love with him,” Pong told The Post. “She asked me, ‘What should I wear, should I be sexy?’ before meeting Silvio. “In my view, Julia was not just trying to charm Silvio with her designs, but with herself,” said Pong. Haart was fired from her role as the CEO of Elite World Group, her husband’s company - and divorced him hours later. Pong told how Haart, a mother-of-four from Monsey, NY, flew to Tokyo for a 40-minute meeting with Scaglia in April 2015 after continually begging to meet the mogul - and Pong said it was clear to him that she wanted to seduce Scaglia, who was married to his first wife, Monica, at the time. Multiple sources told The Post that Haart, 51, presented herself as a successful and wealthy fashion entrepreneur while, in reality, her first business was losing money.ĭocuments seen by The Post show that Haart agreed to pay an acquaintance to be introduced to Louis Pong, one of Scaglia’s best friends and a co-investor in Elite World Group, Scaglia’s fashion company that includes brands such as La Perla. Julia Haart likes to say that she’s self-made.īut the star of the Netflix hit “My Unorthodox Life” allegedly created a persona to ensnare her estranged husband, Italian billionaire Silvio Scaglia - and insiders are now revealing the lengths that she went to meet him and marry him, including indirectly paying for an introduction in 2015. Silvio Scaglia’s former assistant switches sides in Julia Haart split Silvio Scaglia’s fiancée, Michelle-Marie, legally takes his name Julia Haart’s ex has gone into business with yet another love: ‘It’s crazy’ Best star snaps of the week: Amy Schumer’s hat plea and Salma Hayek’s dog day afternoon ![]()
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