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Julia Haart is celebrating a victory in her court battle with her former business partner and husband Silvio Scaglia — one that could end up costing him a quarter of a billion dollars.
It’s a bit of a legal brain-twister. Ready? When Haart told Scaglia she was divorcing him in TK, he fired her from Elite World Group, the top modeling agency they ran together.
Haart sued him, claiming he couldn’t fire her because she owned half the business, so she’d have to agree to fire herself. But when a judge said that company documents showed that she did not, in fact, own half the business, she sued Scaglia, plus his business partner, his accountant and his accountant’s firm, for fraud for allegedly telling her that she’d been given half the company instead of a salary.
A judge tossed her suit. But now an appeals court has overturned the dismissal, and the case is going back to court.
Haart is jubilant, telling Page Six that