VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: ‘My Unorthodox Life’ Star Julia Haart Tells Her Side Of $1 Billion Divorce From Husband, Part 2

Fashion designer, entrepreneur and reality TV star Julia Haart sat down with uInterview to give her side of her $1 billion lawsuit against her estranged husband, Silvio Scaglia.

In 2022, Haart was fired from EWG, the modeling agency she and Scaglia ran together, and proceeded to sue Scaglia for terminating her when she though she had 50% ownership of the company. However, company documents in court exposed that Scaglia had given Haart 49.9% shares, which left Scaglia in control. Haart’s case was thrown out in 2023, but Haart continued to advocate for herself, and earlier this month, the original dismissal of the case was overturned by New York State’s highest court.

Scaglia is in Europe and has failed to show up for several court appearances. A warrant for his arrest has been issued.

“It has now been unequivocally proven that I was lied to in the beginning when I was told I got 50% of the company,” Haart told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “[Scaglia] only gave me common shares and then secretly issued himself the third share, making my common shares completely worthless.”

She explained, “He knew that on one hand, he has this brilliant visionary working like a little energizer bunny working machine, who constantly outperforms everybody. And on the other hand, she’s a bit clueless about laws. I got penalized for being extraordinary. I got penalized for accomplishing things that most people didn’t accomplish. And since I didn’t have the pedigree they had, I must be the liar.”

Haart emphasized the challenges she faced as she built the company herself: “I did it without outside funding, during Covid when we were losing money. I built so much value that we lost literally two-thirds less than everybody else. We lost 33%, most companies lost over 70%. And instead of acknowledging what I accomplished, all it took was a couple of men saying, ‘She likes shopping!’ And that was all it took, nobody asked for proof. Nobody cared…I came literally with nothing, knowing no one, no education. What did I do? I didn’t party, I didn’t go to clubs, what I did was I worked every day for 11 years. I read, I studied, I learned, I saw the future, I worked towards it, that’s what I did. I used all my intellect, my drive, my vision to build something and I succeeded…and it was again, men stealing everything from me. It almost killed me.”

Haart shared there had been some “fun developments” in the case as of late.

“Because Silvio disappeared and absconded, left the country, and now, you know, his passport has been revoked, a warrant is out for his arrest, and it’s a very interesting kind of warrant,” she explained. “It’s a non-remedial kind of warrant, which means if he comes into this country, he can’t appeal it. And because of that, the judge told us to file for me to win the divorce by default. He’s not here anymore. So, hopefully, in the next few weeks, I’ll win my 50% plus control of the company because he’s decimating all of our assets and once that’s done, the fraud case, which has been stayed until the divorce is over, then the fraud case will come, and then I’ll take the other half of the company.”

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

See Part 1 of Heart’s interview here.