‘My Unorthodox Life’ Star Julia Haart Allegedly Created Fake Persona To Snag Italian Billionaire!

Julia Haart, star of Netflix series, “My Unorthodox Life,” allegedly entrapped her estranged husband, Silvio Scaglia, by seemingly creating a false persona to lure him into marriage. Insiders are now spilling the tea about just how far she went to snag the Italian billionaire. 

Multiple individuals told The Post that the 51-year-old presented herself as a wealthy fashion mogul, rather than a failing businesswoman. Documents reveal that Haart paid an acquaintance to introduce her to Louis Pong, one of Scaglia’s best friends and an investor in his fashion company, Elite World Group. 

Pong told The Post that Haart flew to Tokyo to meet Scaglia in April 2015, claiming that she wanted to seduce the mogul, who was married to his first wife, Monica, at the time.

“In my view, Julia was not just trying to charm Silvio with her designs, but with herself,” Pong told the outlet. “She asked me, ‘What should I wear, should I be sexy?’ before meeting Silvio.”

“In my view she was not truly in love with him,” Pong said. “Do I regret introducing them? Absolutely.” 

Scaglia, 63, told the The Post that he believed that his future wife was a  sharp businesswoman.

“She flew all the way just to meet me and I know now that she paid people to be introduced to me,” he said. “She claimed to have patents which she did not. This was all to make me fall in love with her.”

Haart, a Monsey, NY mom of four, denied that she set out to seduce Scaglia. 

In late 2012, she launched her career as a shoe designer, after leaving her husband and local community.  

“I found investors in the craziest places. I found one investor at a restaurant. Second investor on an airplane. Third investor in an eye doctor’s office,” she told the New York Times in July 2021. “Miracles. Literal miracles. 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.’”

“In reality she had nothing … She was just a bulk of lies from the very beginning,” Scaglia told The Post. 

Pong first connected with Haart in January 2015, through an employee at his hospitality business, Lifestyle Generation. He now alleges that Haart promised to pay the person and the person’s cousin for the introduction. Haart’s business goal was to break into the shoe market at Lane Crawford, a major Hong Kong department store.

Pong said that Haart told him after meeting with Lane Crawford—“They loved my shoes, they said they’ve never seen anything so exciting.”

However, Pong added—“The next week, I ran into one of the management directors … He said, ‘We might carry one or two, we’re not sure.’ And in Chinese, he said [the shoes] were a bit slutty.”

Pong nevertheless encouraged her to try designing shoes for Scaglia’s fashion brand, La Perla, and promised to share her ideas with the team. Haart took his advice seriously, and called him “morning and night.”

“I don’t blame her,” he said. “That shows that she’s very aggressive, but she bluffed a lot — saying that everyone loved her shoes, that her company was growing.”

“She was always asking ‘When are you going to see Mr. Scaglia? How does it work at La Perla, who makes the decisions?’ I was honest and said ‘It’s the big boss himself, Silvio,’” Pong recalled. “She said … ‘Can I meet him?’ It was obvious she was doing a lot of research on him. She started asking a lot of questions about him, asking ‘Is he married? Does he have kids?’ Finally she said, ‘Please help me arrange a meeting.”

Haart eventually met Scaglia in Tokyo while pitching her brand and later flew to Italy meet with La Perla’s creative team. She scored a deal to design shoes for one season. 

Pong explained—“She always wanted to be in Italy when Silvio was in Italy and always asked ‘When is he going? Should I join?’”

“I told her, ‘Hey Julia, one thing I must, must tell you … please don’t try and hook up with Silvio in a personal way.”

“I said, ‘I know Silvio, I know his whole family. I know Monica, his wife. He’s a good friend’ … I introduced you to make great products for our company, not to hook up with him.’”

Pong soon learned that Scaglia and Haart had become “intimate.” Scaglia split from his wife after meeting Haart, but clarified to The Post that it was not because of his future wife.

“She appealed strongly to my sense of protection at the very beginning,” Scaliga said. “I think, ‘This poor woman who was escaping this community that was persecuting her for escaping this terrible husband. She had to live from hotel to hotel just because she feared her life and security’ … That story today, I think it’s totally not true.”

Haart and Scaglia tied the knot in Manhattan in 2019. Scaglia made his bride the CEO of Elite World Group, which Pong claimed put off some in the business community. 

Scaglia filed a lawsuit in February, alleging that Haart had used his company as her “personal piggy bank.” 

Haart’s lack of experience became evident as her husband began to catch on.

“Progressively, after our wedding, I started to feel abused,” he said. “Julia started using the company as just a platform for her and for her own self-aggrandizement … which I know now that is something she did systematically.” 

A rep for Haart said— “Julia filed and was granted a restraining order because of her abuse. Mr. Scaglia never mentioned in court that he was abused and he continued to text Julia until this year talking about his love for her.”

In January, Haart tried to legally gain control of EWG. In May, the Delaware court denied her bid, because Haart did not own half of the parent company’s preferred stock. Haart was notified that she was fired on February 7, and she filed for divorce only hours later. 

Scaglia, who called Haart a “master con artist,” has since moved on with Michelle-Marie Heinemann. He said that he’s only recently bounced back with his children in the wake of the damage done by his relationship with Haart.

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