She added to Forbes that while some people discredit her by saying she “ just married a rich guy,” her business success came before she met Scaglia and “one thing had nothing to do with the other.” “The first year of our interaction was me yelling at him,” she said. As Haart told New York Times, he was La Perla’s CEO when they first met. He denied any wrongdoing and was acquitted in 2013.Īccording to Fashion United, Scaglia bought out La Perla and became chairman in 2013. In 2010, Scaglia was arrested for suspected tax evasion of more than 2 billion euros that were allegedly laundered through fake international phone service purchases and sales, per Reuters. Per MSN, Scaglia is also the chairman of Haart’s Elite World Group. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and founded Fastweb, a telecommunications company, but sold his shares in the company in 2007 to become a billionaire. Per his website, he was born in 1958 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Haart is now married to Italian tech entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia. According to a TikTok by Haart’s eldest daughter Batsheva, Hendler has since gotten engaged to another woman. Haart used to be known as Talia Hendler, and per Kveller, she married Yosef Hendler when she was 19. She was invited to collaborate with La Perla in 2016 for a collection, and became La Perla’s creative director in May 2016. Her shoe line eventually caught the attention of the daughter of the owner of La Perla, a luxury lingerie brand. Per Forbes, Haart partnered with an Italian ski boot engineer and a German company that creates a gel used by NASA to create a comfortable high-heeled shoe. I taught myself to sew when I was 16,” she told The New York Times. “Before I even left, I had started the concept of the shoe brand. It was purely and solely with fundamentalism." Julia Haart’s Shoe LineĪfter leaving her community, Haart launched a shoe company, Julia Haart Inc in 2013. Haart has said that she’s still “a very spiritual person," and her “issue was never with Judaism. In particular, she hated seeing her daughter Miriam be forced to adhere to the same rules that she was. Per People, Haart was devout for years, but grew uncomfortable with her community’s strict practices as her kids got older. And my personal take on this is, 'Why is that my problem? It's not.'" "It comes from this concept that women should cover their bodies so as not to attract male attention because may come to have impure thoughts. So basically, the only parts of my body that were showing were my hands and my face," Haart told Entertainment Tonight. "My whole life I was forced to cover myself. There, she grew up in an Ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jewish community that adheres to a very strict observance of traditional Jewish law and often seeks to limit outside, modern influences. Haart was born in Russia, but her family moved when she was three, living in Italy, Austria, and Austin, Texas before settling in Monsey, New York when she was 7. Here’s everything to know about Haart ahead of the show. The show follows her and her four kids - a TikToker, an app designer, a lawyer, and a high schooler - as they navigate the differences between their orthodox upbringing and their current lifestyle. A former member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, she’s now the CEO of the model management agency Elite World Group. Netflix’s new reality series My Unorthodox Life documents the life and family of fashion mogul Julia Haart.
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