My Unorthodox Life’s Julia ‘Blindsided’ by Firing From Ex Silvio’s Firm

A complete shock. Julia Haart was fired from her place at estranged husband Silvio Scaglia Haart‘s firm within the midst of the couple’s cut up.

Workers at Elite World Group obtained a memo on Wednesday, February 9, saying that Paolo Barbieri will change the style designer, 50, as CEO of the enterprise, Us Weekly can verify.

“She was fully blindsided by the firing,” an insider solely tells Us. “She obtained no reasoning and was merely let go on presumably the idea of divorce.”

The previous La Perla artistic director filed for divorce from the businessman, 63, on Wednesday after two years of marriage. After the couple tied the knot in 2019, the entrepreneur named his wife co-owner and CEO of EWG. He additionally took her final title.

“The motion taken to take away Julia Haart from her place as CEO was unauthorized and of no authorized impact,” a lawyer for the My Unorthodox Life star informed Us on Thursday, February 10. “She is a 50 % proprietor of the enterprise and was one of many two administrators. Sadly, this comes at a time when Julia and Silvio are at first of divorce proceedings. Julia will implement all of her authorized rights and cures.”

The primary supply provides that the Netflix persona is “working along with her legal professional to see what could be performed” about her unplanned exit from EWG, the place she “labored tirelessly” to assist the corporate develop “day in, day trip.”

“They had been within the strategy of divorcing amicably and talked every single day,” the insider tells Us. “To make use of that as retaliation to attempt to push her out of the corporate is gloomy.”

Earlier than becoming a member of EWG, the Russia native based her personal shoe firm named Julia Haart. In 2016, La Perla named her the artistic director of the model. Throughout her tenure, she famously designed the revealing robe that Kendall Jenner wore to the 2017 Met Gala.

She additionally met Silvio, who was then the CEO of the lingerie firm. “The primary 12 months of our interplay was me yelling at him. I used to be horrible to him,” she informed The New York Occasions in July 2021. “However I had a variety of respect for him. As sheltered as my life had been, his life had been the diametric reverse. He’d been in every single place. He’d seen every little thing. And once I yelled at him, he took it like a person. That made me completely satisfied.”

The estranged couple had been featured within the Netflix sequence My Unorthodox Life, which adopted Julia after she left her ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. The present additionally included her 4 youngsters — Batsheva, 28, Shlomo, 26, Miriam, 22, and Aron, 15 — whom she shares with ex-husband Yosef Hendler.

With reporting by Diana Cooper