Adva Lavie — the penthouse pet engaged to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck accused of concentrating on rich older males — bolted from court docket after a choose ordered her to give up her Israeli passport.
Lavie sprinted away from the Van Nuys courthouse wearing designer duds Monday after a tough morning within the courtroom. The aspiring mannequin refused to talk with The California Submit on her hurried exit.
Throughout Lavie’s listening to, investigators revealed she obtained an Israeli Passport on March 25 — a violation of her bail situations after her arrest. Lavie clutched a prayer guide in the course of the listening to.
Detectives revealed that they had a recording of a member of the Israeli Consulate saying that they had issued Lavie the passport. Moreover, the digital ankle monitor worn by Lavie positioned the penthouse pet on the consulate March twenty fifth.
Prosecutors requested for Lavie’s bail be raised to $1 million and her passport instantly surrendered calling her a “flight danger”.
Lavie’s lawyer, Jeffrey Rubenstein, stated she had obtained the passport “to get married.” Lavie was initially going to marry billionaire Cloobeck on June 18th in Jerusalem.
The choose didn’t increase bail, however place further restrictions on Lavie’s motion — ordering her to avoid airports, the Israeli Consulate and solely permitting her to go away LA County with permission.
A visibly irritated Lavie blurted out she didn’t what “the county is” to which her lawyer replied “shhh, we’ll clarify it to you.”
When the choose requested if she understood the order, the mannequin replied, “I perceive every part you say. I’ll comply with.”
The choose warned that if Lavie violated the principles, they’d set “bail so excessive, nobody will be capable to bail you out.”
He additionally requested whether or not Lavie wanted a Hebrew interpreter after Rubinstein argued she might have been confused in regards to the passport difficulty as a result of “English is her second language,” regardless of understanding it fluently. Either side agreed to maneuver ahead with an interpreter.
Moments later, the Israeli passport was dramatically handed to the choose after being delivered to the courtroom and inspected by each side. Earlier than surrendering it, Lavie advised a member of her authorized group, “Take an image for the marriage.”
A rattled Lavie darted from the courthouse after the listening to whereas her attorneys answered questions. “My shopper goes to comply with all of the court docket guidelines, so she’s not going to have a passport,” lawyer Jeremy Lessem stated.
The alleged honey trapper is charged with six felonies, together with two counts of grand theft, two counts of housebreaking, and two counts of unauthorized use of private figuring out info. She allegedly met a number of older males on courting apps after which stole from their houses.
The California Submit was first to report that billionaire Stephen Cloobeck’s arrest on Tuesday was in relation to his penthouse pet fiancée.
Cloobeck has been charged with two felony counts of making an attempt to stop or dissuade a sufferer or witness from testifying, a felony rely of stopping or dissuading a witness or sufferer from attending or testifying at a trial or continuing, and a misdemeanor rely of annoying phone calls.
All 4 alleged crimes had been dedicated towards the alleged victims of Lavie or their attorneys.
If convicted on all counts, Cloobeck faces as much as 11 years and 6 months in jail and as much as $30,000 in fines. Lavie faces 11 years and eight months if convicted.
When Rubenstein was requested if Lavie knew if Cloobeck was allegedly contacting witneeses within the case he was fast to say “No remark.”
Cloobeck, who backed Dem Eric Swalwell earlier than he was accused of rape, beforehand advised the California Submit he nonetheless needs to marry Lavie, saying: “The wedding remains to be on, the date is now a secret.”
Lavie has been married earlier than to a porn star Edan Ives often called “Massive Nick.”
Within the letter addressed to “The Honorable Courtroom of California” and obtained by the California Submit, Ives begged for his spouse to be free of her digital monitoring ankle bracelet by vouching for her character.
“Adva and I met in 2019 when she was working as Flight attendant and I used to be her passenger,” Ives reveals within the letter. “We fell in love and had been married in 2021,” he continues.
The letter, which was written simply earlier than Cloobeck, 64, proposed to Lavie on Valentine’s Day at a star-studded Las Vegas charity ball, goes on to say her best dream was to turn out to be a mom.
The Penthouse Pet and her porn star accomplice filed for a joint divorce in Clark County, Nevada, on March 3. The 2 had been beforehand concerned in a 2022 deadly accident that killed a motorbike rider in Los Angeles.
Ives was arrested on June 8, 2023, and charged with vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced to twenty days in Los Angeles County jail and was on probation for a yr.
The Penthouse Pet is predicted again in court docket subsequent month.
