

On February 3, 2022, Haart informed Scaglia that she wished to proceed with a divorce and that she no longer wished to remain business partners (id., ¶ 21). As she states in her complaint herein, it was agreed they would remain business partners and delay divorce proceedings until the end of that year (id., ¶ 20). In January 2021, Haart requested a divorce from Scaglia (NYSCEF Doc No. Scaglia later transferred less than half the preferred stock to Haart (2022 WL 3108806, *12, 2022 Del Ch LEXIS 188, *26). In July 2019, Scaglia transferred half of Freedom's common stock to Haart he owned the remainder and all of Freedom's preferred stock (2022 WL 3108806, *4, 2022 Del Ch LEXIS 188, *8). Scaglia appointed Haart as EWG's CEO in March 2019 (NYSCEF Doc No. In January 2019, Freedom formed EWG as a wholly owned subsidiary to hold the Elite business (2022 WL 3108806, *3, 2022 Del Ch LEXIS 188, *7). (Freedom) in 2018 as a holding company for the couple's business ventures and personal investments (Haart v Scaglia, 2022 WL 3108806, *3, 2022 Del Ch LEXIS 188, *5-6, affd -A3d &mdash, 2023 WL 2795968, 2023 Del LEXIS 113 ). Scaglia, who had acquired the "Elite" brand in 2011, formed Freedom Holdings, Inc. Haart and Scaglia subsequently entered into a romantic relationship and married in 2019 (id., ¶ 20). Shortly thereafter, La Perla and Haart's company, Julia Haart, LLC, entered into a co-branding agreement, and Haart was later appointed La Perla's Creative Director (id., ¶ 18). Haart first met Scaglia in 2015 at a meeting Pong had arranged to discuss designing a line of shoes for La Perla, then owned by Scaglia (id., ¶¶ 17-18). Defendant Louis Pong (Pong) resides in Hong Kong, China and is the former head of EWG's Asia Division (id., ¶¶ 1 and 15). Davis is Scaglia's lawyer and publicist (id., ¶ 14). Scaglia is Haart's estranged husband (id., ¶ 1). Haart served as the Creative Director of La Perla, a retail apparel company, from 2016 to 2018, and as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Creative Officer of Elite World Group, LLC (EWG), a talent/media company, from March 2019 until she was terminated in February 2022 (id., ¶¶ 1-2, 17 and 19).
#LIFE JULIA HAART BARES MORE THAN SERIES#
Plaintiff Haart and Defendant Scaglia are currently married, and litigating their divorce before the undersigned, in another action, in this Court.Īs stated in her complaint in this action, Haart is a fashion designer and author and appears in "My Unorthodox Life," a reality television series airing on Netflix that documents her life after she left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, New York (NYSCEF Doc No. The following facts are taken from the complaint unless otherwise indicated. Plaintiff Julia Haart opposes the motion. Davis (Davis) move, pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) and (g) and Civil Rights Law § 76-a, to dismiss the complaint with prejudice and for an award, pursuant to Civil Rights Law § 70-a, of their costs and attorneys' fees. In this defamation action brought by Plaintiff Julia Haart, defendants Silvio Scaglia (Scaglia) and Lanny J. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP by Lisa Simpson, Peter Andrews Bicks
#LIFE JULIA HAART BARES MORE THAN PC#
by Sheldon Eisenberger, Jeremy Shockett, Jason Erik Kosek Lavely & Singer PC by Martin D. DAVIS, LOUIS PONG, and DOES 1 through 10, inclusive, Defendants.Īnderson Kill, P.C.

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