Julia Haart Emerges from Divorce With $55M Tribeca Triplex

In her divorce, business owner and realty star Julia Haart said “justice was served.” That justice took many forms, including the awarding of a $55 million triplex penthouse in Tribeca.

A judge awarded Haart control of the business she co-ran with ex-husband Silvio Scaglia and the apartment at 70 Vestry Street, Page Six reported. The judge’s decision wraps up a contentious divorce battle that’s been raging for three years.

The judge granted Haart a default judgment when Scaglia stopped participating in the proceedings. Haart received a 50 percent interest in Freedom Holding — the parent company of Elite World Models — as well as power of attorney over Scaglia’s equal interest, effectively giving her control of the company; Scaglia allegedly tried firing Haart as the company’s chief executive officer after she pursued the divorce.

Haart also landed the 7,800-square-foot penthouse at 70 Vestry, which Scaglia purchased in 2018 for $55 million (and where she’s been living since the divorce started). The unit has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two kitchens, a library, gallery and more than 3,600 square feet of terrace. Robert A.M. Stern designed the development, which Related Companies completed the same year Scaglia purchased the unit.

Beyond the assets and the business, Haart is walking away with oodles of cash. The judge awarded Haart with $7.4 million in unpaid management fees, half of the proceeds from a painting sale that initially netted Scaglia more than $2.9 million and half of the cash withdrawals Scaglia has made from their businesses since divorce proceedings started.

The divorce was one of the more high-profile and acrimonious splits in recent memory for New York City’s tabloid pages. The couple wed in 2019, but things started falling apart quickly, around the same time an attempt to take EWG public flamed out. Haart accused Scaglia of violating his fiduciary duties to Freedom by stripping it of $1.5 million.

The separation’s intensity was heightened by the presence of Netflix cameras, as the drama unfolded on “My Unorthodox Life,” which followed Haart’s departure from strict Orthodox Jewish life.

As for Scaglia, he’s engaged to Michelle-Marie Heinemann, who took his last name two years ago. He had a hard time masking his feelings about the divorce proceedings, telling Page Six that Haart used to be “nothing, is nothing now, and will be nothing in the future.”

— Holden Walter-Warner