At 10:30 p.m. on July 28, 2026, Beverly Hills police found Adva Lavie on the sidewalk along North Cannon Boulevard near Brighton Way. She had just left Azul, an upscale restaurant a few blocks from Rodeo Drive. She was 29 years old. She was not wearing the GPS ankle bracelet the court had ordered her to wear. An active felony warrant from Riverside County was waiting. A judge ordered her held without bail before the week was out.
It was her third brush with law enforcement in months. Her 64-year-old billionaire fiancé, Stephen Cloobeck, had already been charged with felony witness tampering in connection with her case. Their planned June wedding in Jerusalem had been quietly called off. And somewhere inside a Los Angeles County jail, recordings of Lavie’s phone calls were making their way to prosecutors.
In those calls, she described Cloobeck as a pig who just wanted sex. She was already working out how to keep him financially useful.
Lavie targeted men through dating apps
Between 2023 and 2025, prosecutors allege, Adva Lavie used dating apps and sugar daddy websites to cultivate relationships with wealthy older men and younger women across Los Angeles County. She presented herself as a girlfriend or travel companion. Once inside her targets’ homes, she allegedly stole cash, gold coins, credit cards, and high-end designer goods. Five victims were formally named. More than ten additional potential victims had come forward by the time charges were filed, with reports spanning California, Nevada, Florida, France, and Italy.
Lavie, who also went by the names Mia Ventura, Shoshana, and Shana, had built a public profile as a model and social media influencer. Born in California in 1997, she had grown up in Jerusalem, served two years in the Israeli military, and worked as a flight attendant for an international airline before the COVID-19 pandemic ended that career. By early 2022, she was producing content on OnlyFans. She described herself as the top Israeli creator on the platform.
Her personal life had already produced its share of legal consequences. In 2021, she married Edan Ives in Clark County, Nevada. Ives, who performed adult content under the names Big Nick and Nick Strokes, was driving a Honda Civic in October 2022 when he made an unsafe right turn into the path of motorcyclist Manoochehr Namdar at the intersection of Hayvenhurst and Ventura in Encino. Namdar sustained severe injuries and died.
Ives was not arrested until June 8, 2023. Eight months had passed since the crash. He pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence and served 20 days in jail. The victim’s son, Sam Namdar, filed a civil lawsuit alleging depression, emotional distress, and loss of earning capacity. The case settled in April 2024.
Lavie and Ives filed for divorce in Clark County, Nevada, on March 3, 2026.
By 2023, Lavie had stopped producing OnlyFans content and shifted focus to modeling. In July 2023, she was named Penthouse Pet of the Month. In April 2024, she appeared in Playboy New Zealand.
Targets lost thousands in alleged thefts
The most detailed example of Lavie’s alleged method involved a 78-year-old man in Van Nuys. According to Los Angeles County court records, Lavie took $17,500 in cash, $4,000 in gold coins, and $100,000 in designer clothing from his home. Shortly afterward, she posted an apartment tour on TikTok that featured some of the allegedly stolen items still hanging in her closet.
She also asked the same man for $25,000 to cover funeral expenses for her mother. She then traveled to Israel. Her mother was alive.
In 2024, Lavie appeared as a guest on the Access Vegas podcast. Forty-five minutes into the taping, she stepped out of the studio and was absent for another 45 minutes. Investigators later alleged she had used the time to steal property from other guests in the green room. One credit card taken during that alleged incident was later used to purchase $900 worth of hair extensions at a Beverly Hills salon. The appointment was booked under the name Mia Ventura.
The Coachella allegation followed. A man had invited Lavie to the 2025 Coachella Music Festival and the two stayed at an Airbnb in Indio. When he discovered she had allegedly walked through his Tesla Cybertruck and taken an $8,600 Rolex watch, $700 Louis Vuitton sunglasses, and an $1,800 Louis Vuitton card holder, he reported it to Indio police. Surveillance cameras at the property reportedly captured the theft on video.
Charges arrived in two counties
In May 2025, Lavie was arrested by Los Angeles County investigators. She posted a $50,000 bond. Prosecutors filed formal charges on November 5, 2025. She appeared in court the following day and was released on electronic monitoring with a GPS ankle bracelet, ordered to stay away from the named victims and remain within Los Angeles County.
On March 23, 2026, a judge held her to answer on six felony counts: two counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information, two counts of grand theft, one count of first-degree residential burglary with a person present, and one count of first-degree residential burglary. Conviction on all six carries a maximum of 11 years and 8 months in prison.
Lavie pleaded not guilty.
The ankle bracelet would not hold her long. On May 23, 2026, it logged her leaving Los Angeles County. She had spent 39 minutes eating at Neptune’s Net, the seafood landmark on the Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura County. Her attorney told the court his client had not realized she had crossed county lines. The judge issued a warning and did not revoke her bail.
A billionaire entered the picture
While Lavie’s case was building, Stephen Cloobeck had entered her life. The 64-year-old founder of Diamond Resorts International had built his timeshare company into a multibillion-dollar operation before selling it in 2016 for $2.2 billion. He had spent years as one of California’s most prominent Democratic donors, growing close to the late Senator Harry Reid and funneling more than a million dollars into a super PAC supporting Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. In January 2025, Cloobeck announced his own run for California governor, spending $1.4 million on television advertising before dropping out later in the year and endorsing Swalwell.
He had recently become engaged to Adva Lavie. He proposed on Valentine’s Day 2026 at a Las Vegas charity ball. A wedding in Jerusalem was set for June 1. Cloobeck told the New York Post his fiancée was not a menace to society but a victim, calling the situation twisted.
The wedding never happened.
Cloobeck faced his own charges
On April 28, 2026, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Cloobeck with three felony counts of attempting to dissuade witnesses and one misdemeanor count of making harassing phone calls. Prosecutors alleged he had used force and an express and implied threat of force and violence to prevent three of Lavie’s alleged victims from testifying against her. He was also accused of threatening the attorney representing one of those victims, along with that attorney’s property and family members.
Cloobeck surrendered at the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station on May 12 and posted $300,000 bail. His attorney denied all wrongdoing. “These charges are false and we look forward to our day in court,” Elias Dabaie told the Los Angeles Times. At arraignment, Cloobeck was represented by David Chesnoff, who had previously been part of the legal team that defended Robert Durst.
Cloobeck pleaded not guilty.
Separately, Lavie was also accused of contacting a witness in her case directly, the same conduct that had triggered Cloobeck’s arrest.
Jail calls reached the courtroom
By the time of her July 28 arrest, Lavie was no longer wearing her ankle bracelet at all. Officers spotted its absence immediately when they encountered her outside Azul. A misdemeanor charge for violating a court order was filed the same week. At her bail review hearing on July 31, she arrived in court in a blue prison uniform and requested a Hebrew interpreter, despite multiple people in the courtroom noting she spoke fluent English.
When a witness on the stand mentioned the engagement, Lavie interrupted from the defendant’s table. “She’s not engaged,” she shouted. When the bailiff moved to restore order, she called the witness a drunk.
The judge ordered her held without bail.
The decision was shaped in part by recordings prosecutors had obtained of Lavie’s jail calls. In them, she spoke with Edan Ives, describing Cloobeck as a pig who just wanted sex and discussing how to keep him financially useful through the relationship. She allegedly discussed the possibility of fleeing to Israel during those same calls. The discussion mattered: investigators had already found that she had obtained a second Israeli passport on March 25, in violation of her bail conditions. The judge cited the flight risk in his ruling.
A source close to Cloobeck confirmed to Los Angeles Magazine that the engagement had been quietly called off. The two remained friendly, but Lavie was no longer living at his Beverly Hills mansion.
Judge denied the mental health bid
On August 10, 2026, Lavie’s defense attorneys asked the court for a mental health diversion. They described a childhood inside a strict Orthodox Hasidic community in Israel marked, they said, by physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Her first sexual experience had been an assault. Her ex-husband had mistreated her. She had post-traumatic stress disorder. The attorneys asked the court to allow her to receive treatment in lieu of standing trial.
The court rejected the motion. A judge determined that Lavie’s mental health history bore no connection to the alleged crimes. The flight-risk record, including the jail calls about Israel and the second passport, remained on the table.
Lavie’s attorney, Michael Goldstein, acknowledged his client had made mistakes. “It doesn’t change our perspective on the case,” he said, adding that the defense’s position on how the matter should be resolved had not changed.
As of the time of publication, Adva Lavie was being held without bail in Los Angeles County Jail, facing two open criminal cases across two separate counties, with no trial date set. The man who had called her a victim and posted $300,000 to stay out of a cell of his own was working through felony charges across town. He had proposed to her in front of a ballroom. He had described her situation as twisted. By summer, he was a co-defendant in everything but name.
She had called him a pig. Prosecutors had the recording.
