Hollywood hustler Adva Lavie, 28, allegedly has a minimum of two extra male victims who’re too embarrassed to return ahead as she focused “males who had one thing to lose,” sources inform The Submit.
Earlier than she was arrested and charged with six felonies for crimes together with allegedly romance scamming older males and stealing from them, Lavie — identified professionally as Mia Ventura — was already notorious in Hollywood, with individuals urging to look out for her.
“She discovered males who had one thing to lose. I’ve two guys that I do know who is not going to come ahead,” entrepreneur Michael Sartain — who featured Lavie on his “Entry Vegas” podcast — claimed to The Submit.
“She’ll discover a man who’s on a Sugar Child web site. She’s searching for those who’ve some huge cash, dishonest on their spouse. You possibly can’t name the cops while you employed [someone from that kind of site] to return to your own home.
“She would discover individuals who had prestigious jobs, individuals in marriages – she’d hustle them and so they couldn’t or wouldn’t go to the cops.”
Since her arrest in 2025, Lavie has been launched on an ankle monitor, throughout which era she has change into engaged to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, 64, with the couple planning to wed June 18 in Israel.
It was after filming Sartain’s podcast that former Penthouse journal cowl star Lavie is alleged by police to have rifled by way of a number of individuals’s baggage and stolen bank cards. He claims her habits “looks like kleptomania,” to him.
One in every of her alleged victims in that incident, and one of many crimes she is now charged with, was with hairstylist Eden Lynn Strelioff, 31.
She informed The Submit how the brazen porn star stole her card and charged $900 in hair extensions, reserving herself into a fancy Beverly Hills salon underneath her actual title.
Throughout podcast filming, “she went into the opposite room. She took a number of individuals’s playing cards, money simply rummaged by way of our belongings,” Strelioff alleged.
“I discovered fairly fast. I acquired residence from the podcast and observed issues had been lacking [from my wallet].
“Over the subsequent couple of weeks, there was a cost on my Platinum Amex for a saloon in Beverly Hills for $900.
“She was getting extensions,” Strelioff recalled, saying she alerted police to the matter. They later informed her Lavie was apparently concerned in a “string of robberies.”
“She’s completed this to many individuals she’s come into contact with,” Strelioff mentioned.
Lavie, faces greater than 11 years in jail after being charged with six felonies: Two counts of grand theft, two counts of housebreaking and two counts of unauthorized use of non-public figuring out data. She pleaded not responsible to all prices at courtroom in Los Angeles this week.
Attorneys for Lavie didn’t reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
“The story is twisted. Her story has not been informed. She has been abused,” Cloobeck beforehand mentioned, defending her.
Nevertheless, the supply mentioned former Israel Protection Forces soldier turned Playboy star and OnlyFans mannequin Lavie had been problematic throughout Hollywood and past.
“She got here to a bunch of charity occasions, like Babes in Toyland [in Las Vegas]. She was at all times on the scene. She would compete in all of those swimsuit pageants,” mentioned Sartain, noting that individuals had later informed him to stay away from her. “I heard that she was evil,” he added.
Nonetheless, he thinks with the high-profile authorized crew Lavie debuted in courtroom Monday, closely rumored to be funded by Cloobeck, she’s going to skate on many of the prices.
“She will be able to declare these had been presents. How far are these males keen to go to implicate themselves on the document for hiring [her]. How keen are they to go on the document?
“She’ll plead to a Class A misdemeanor and time served as a result of she has a mega lawyer.”
On Monday, the choose defined the principles of Lavie’s bail, which embody not having the ability to depart California with out permission and stripping away her passport, placing her wedding ceremony in jeopardy.
