VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: ‘My Unorthodox Life’ Star Julia Haart Speaks For First Time On Her $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Ex-Husband

Entrepreneur Julia Haart, who is the subject of the Netflix reality series My Unorthodox Life, spoke to uInterview exclusively to give her side of her epic $1 billion lawsuit against her estranged husband, Silvio Scaglia.

In 2022, Haart was fired from Elite World Group, the modeling agency she and Scaglia ran together. The agency has represented A-list models such as Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima and Irina Shayk, among others. In response, Haart sued Scaglia for firing her when she had 50% ownership of the company. Company documents later showed that she had 49.9 percent, leaving Scaglia in control.

A judge threw out Haart’s case in 2023, but Haart continued to advocate for herself. In the last few days, the original dismissal of the case was overturned by New York State’s highest court, and Haart is now prepared to take Scaglia to court for a divorce and restitution.

Haart provided her version of the events that led to her firing. “I took over a company called EWG. I took it over in April 2019 when it was in a state of great difficulty because there was actually a lawsuit that we filed against the agents and previous owner,” she told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “So, basically, EWG is the conglomerate of agencies. And it’s basically comprised of the Elite Model agencies around the world and the Women Model agencies around the world, aggregated together. So I walk into an empty agency. Everyone told me, ‘Julia, you can’t repopulate an agency when it’s gone; it doesn’t happen.’ And I did. I fought every single day, and I managed to do it.”

“And the reason I did it was because I was told by Silvio and his cronies that I was a co-owner of the business,” she alleges. “And that it was the only business we had, and if not, we weren’t going to have any money, ‘So Julia, make the business a success.’ Within two years of my taking over, through COVID, without a dollar of outside investment, I took an agency that was valued at $70 million and [was given] a $1.1 billion valuation – literally two years after my taking it over.”

“In the meantime, my marriage to Silvio completely falls apart. He was horrible to my children,” she continued. “So I asked for a divorce. And we decide we’re going to have a very quiet divorce, and yet the day that I told him, ‘Not only do I want a divorce, I don’t want to be your business partner anymore.’ I was fired 48 hours later.”

Reflecting on the tumultuous legal process, Haart alleges, “There was so much proof! Mountains of evidence! You can’t rewrite history, right? None of [Scaglia’s] accusations made any logical sense. In two years and eight months, guess how many documents he has brought forward to prove his version of reality? Zero. Not one document, and yet I lose.”

She likened the experience, “It was literal Alice in Wonderland where right is wrong and wrong is right.”

“They wanted me to keep doing what I was doing,” she alleges. “Building equity. Working for free without a single dollar in salary, without an employment contract because I thought I owned half the company. It’s egregious what happened.”

Scaglia and EWG have denied all of Haart’s claims in court filings. 

Scaglia, an Italian businessman, is currently in Europe. He has failed to show up for several court appearances, and an arrest warrant has been issued for him. 

Check back for parts two and three of Haart’s story.