Silvio Scaglia really must be a financial genius: the model agency owner somehow manages to be both a globetrotting billionaire and helplessly destitute at the same time! They don’t teach that at Wharton!
Characteristically, Scaglia — who is locked in a vicious legal battle with his soon-to-be-ex wife and former business partner, Julia Haart — appears to have spent the summer hopping private jets and yachts around all the usual Euro enclaves with his new partner Michelle Marie Heinemann.
What’s confusing, however, is that — according to court documents leaked to — back in May, the Italian businessman wrote to a New York judge pleading poverty.
Haart and Scaglia met in 2015 through a business deal. She later took a job at his modeling agency, Elite World Group, which has repped Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Irina Shayk, Winnie Harlow and Behati Prinsloo, among many others. They married shortly after, in 2019.
But when Haart told Scaglia in 2022 that she planned to divorce him, he fired her from EWG — setting in motion a series of brutal court cases over both the marriage and the company.
We’re told that in May, Scaglia notified the court that the he was tapped out.
“I am currently unable to bear the financial burden of the ongoing litigation against [Haart], nor can I afford to sustain the fees for my own legal counsel,” he wrote.
Scaglia has been trying unsuccessfully to get permission from the court to sell the Tribeca triplex where he and Haart had lived during their marriage, and where Haart still resides.
“Following the latest judicial decision concerning [the apartment] and the dismissed hope of obtaining permission to sell it, I have dramatically curtailed my expenditures to a bare minimum,” he wrote.
He says he also moved back to Italy because the cost of living is lower there, and asked for a freebie court-appointed lawyer to represent him in the case.
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