When the Biggest Socialites Decide to Turn to Crime!

what happens when socialites start to get really bored let's find out and get started with number five the squatting socialite Libby Mugabe has been ordered by a judge to pay almost two million dollars in unpaid rent for a luxury condo she lived in during the pandemic the condo cost around 28 800 per month and Libby stopped paying her rent for months before her lease expired after

that her landlord alleged that she continued to live in the place for at least five months and sued her for double the rent of the overstate period however mcgrabby claims to have moved out before her lease was up saying that she had left the keys with the doorman obviously pretty standard practice when moving out of an expensive luxury condo just don't do any of the paperwork

or formally turn in the keys to management he just hand them over to the door guy and hope he decides to do the extra work for you thank you think about it now it should have been his pleasure to do extra for someone like Libby who probably even graced him with eye contact ultimately the judge agreed with the landlord and ordered mcgravy to pay 1.8 million

dollars to her landlord a figure she thinks is insane what makes this case even more interesting is Libby still sent out hardship applications which meant that she wasn't only in debt on luxury purchases she was also living on government welfare Libby claimed that she had been behind on her payments because her ex-husband stopped paying her bills this is interesting because she had previously won a huge

divorce settlement from the same husband maybe now she'll have a better use for all the money she got from that settlement let's not be too hard on her she did do the absolute minimum she could do when she was moving out we can't expect more number four the squatting socialite too Melissa birkelhammer has been accused of stealing from a luxury store according to the police she

stole two purses a dress and a skirt from berkdorf Goodman ordinarily this should have been treated like a regular case of shoplifting because that's what it was however the suspect in this case isn't just a regular Thief she's Melissa berkelhammer the socialite who used to be the toast of New York City High Society unfortunately for Burkle Hammer all of that status went away when she suffered

a life-threatening car accident that broke both her legs the medication that she was put on to manage her pain made her dizzy and loopy as a result Melissa was simply unable to continue living the socialite lifestyle and had to manage her health more closely you could say she was now a social light now with 50 percent less social shockingly all the friends who used to invite

her to parties simply forgot that she existed you would never think that high society was that superficial the financial hardship that Berkle Hammer went through was so difficult that she began squatting at a friend's place she told her friend actress Julianne De Palma that she needed a temporary place to stay Julianne agreed because she believed Melissa and thought that the arrangement would be temporary it wasn't

instead of taking up as little space as she could Melissa decided to move in with 50 bags and her mother the Ruckus they both caused was so great that Julianne was forced to lock herself in her bedroom while mother and daughter argued all day and night they also messed up the home making it impossible for Julianne to live there happily after a long dispute over moving

out Julianne eventually got Melissa to pack her things and leave it was after that period that Burkle Hammer was caught stealing items from the luxury shop in court Melissa explained that the pain medication from her accident made her light-headed and disoriented and that was why she walked out with items from the store pain medications can be very disorienting so it's not all that far-fetched bricklehamer also

said that she'd been looking for her mother in the store and wanted to show her the merchandise she claimed that she had merely stepped out of the store momentarily with the goods and had not planned to steal him in the end Melissa just received 10 days of community service it appeared that the judge understood and didn't think she had been up to anything but Melissa isn't

done being a socialite just yeah two years after stealing the incident she changed to a new woman she got married got a new apartment and even got a job as a realtor in New York it just goes to show that you can always get back up after falling down number three accidental stealing socialite India Hicks has admitted to stealing a 680 pound coat from Heathrow herod's

this news was particularly shocking because of hicks's status in British Society she was the bridesmaid at princess Charles and Princess Diana's wedding and is currently the 678th person in line to the British throne which is like saying she's not in line but she kind of is so how does this Aristocrat go from dining with Royals to stealing a coat from parents or excuse was that she

was just being absent-minded Hicks explained that she had just walked into the herods at Heathrow and had simply forgotten to pay for the cope which is the sort of thing that happens to most people she's just so relatable isn't she Hicks told her story to a judge and he accepted her argument she was also remorseful and the judge let her get off with a strict warning

and a suspended three-month sentence but was she being truthful our dear India was born in London to Lady Pamela mountbatten a great great grandchild to Queen Victoria and famed interior designer David Nightingale Hicks after a while of living in London and jetting all over Europe Hicks moved to the Bahamas with her long-term partner David Flintwood she's given birth to five kids and leads a glamorous lifestyle

during the lockdown Hicks shared fantastic photos of her life in the Bahamas and these photos made it clear that she lived in serious luxury but despite being very wealthy Hicks has been labeled unusual because she still works for her income unlike other Aristocrats who just live off of The Peasants after Hicks graduated from college she got into some modeling after doing that for a few years

she married and went up to the Bahamas where she started her own home restoration business she also published several books during that period aside from her restoration business and books Hicks also started a boutique shop in the Bahamas called The Sugar Mill Trading Company at the same time she worked with Crabtree and Evelyn as a spokeswoman and creative consultant for home and skin care products she

also became a public commentator on events surrounding the royal family due to her personal ties then in 2015 she launched an e-commerce shop that she soon closed down so it's clear that not only does Hicks work she works pretty hard especially for British heiress interestingly the entire Hicks family wasn't invited to the royal coronation of King Charles this is especially important because Pamela Hicks Indie hicks's

mom was the bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth at her wedding however this snub wasn't due to the Hicks in particular but due to the smaller nature of the coronation ceremony the king only wanted to have a thousand guests as opposed to the 8251 guests that Queen Elizabeth had at her ceremony so the guest list had to be whittled down to the last thousand people which is still

a lot of people if you think about it unfortunately for the hickses they didn't make that list despite India's 678th in line for the throne status India said she understood the king's reasoning and even applauded it despite the shoplifting embarrassment that may have played a part number two princess Feud princess Rita Bon company ludovici was thrown out of her Mansion after getting into a fight with

her three stepsons her eviction from the home wasn't accident free either as she fell and broke a few ribs while rushing out princess Rita wasn't the only one to be evicted from the Mansion she also had to remove a Ukrainian Refugee family that she decided to take in the story behind princess Rita's eviction is complex but here's the long and short of it princess Rita's husband

Principe Don Nicolo Bon company ludovici had passed away leaving her in sole possession of the Mansion her ownership would remain until she also passed away at which point it would be turn to the family but her step sounds have found a legal workaround to force her out of their father's house anyway the sun's claim that they own a portion of the building so they have the

right to throw Rita out whenever they feel like it so it's a typical Rich family entitled squabbling thing but this Mansion isn't just any Mansion the entire estate is the ancestral home of the bunk company ludovici Clan the Italian family is a very important one as it has produced princes and even popes in fact everybody's favorite Pope Pope Gregory the 13th the creator of the Gregorian

calendar actually came from the family and come on who likes the other popes anyways yeah Pope Julius II was an awesome War Pope but he's such a basic Choice Whoever likes him their favorite dinosaur probably is a T-Rex too right basic anyway the Mansion is a treasure Trove of historical artifacts like rear paintings correspondence between historical figures there's a sculpture by Michelangelo in the gardens there's

also a Caravaggio Fresco and works by guccino on the walls one can also find letters is written by Mary Antoinette amongst the historical Treasures of the households sadly princess Rita might not get to enjoy that anymore and may have to suffer through some hardship as she claims that the eviction has left her homeless the Italian Court didn't just order her to leave the house she was

also asked to foot the legal bills of her stepsons the question of course is why would her stepsons treat her this way is it simply because they don't accept her as a stepmother or could there be something else at foot there is this isn't just a regular Rift between stepsons and stepmothers it's also a rift between Italians and Americans the stepson see Rita as an American

and believe that she's using her American privilege to cheat them you know all that privilege we Americans drink up and let run down our chins but that claim is funny considering the fact that one of the stepsons Bonte is wanted in the U.S Bonte fled America to hide from persecution and is now living his best life in Italy another one of the stepsons is a prison

journeyman who has been jailed twice for credit card fraud and tax evasion the issue here is that Rita had lived in the Mansion for over 20 years was Act actively working towards cataloging the over 150 000 historical documents found in the home her stepsons didn't like this and claimed that she was destroying the house not safe keeping documents they also claimed that Rita charged money for

tours of the property and allowed it to get damaged Rita in return argued that whatever damage had been done to the house was minimal unfortunately she didn't have the time and energy to focus on defeating the stepsons through legal means as she was focused on taking care of Ukrainian refugees she'd taken in so she was easily blindsided when the stepsons eventually came to a Victor with

law enforcement today princess Rita's homeless and penniless but is certainly not going to go out without a fight she's currently mounting a legal defense to try to get the Mansion back under her control whether or not that's possible will be up to the Italian courts it all sounds just like a Disney movie doesn't it all we need are some lin-manuel Miranda songs a couple talking animals

maybe some merchandise tie-ins and we're set if you're enjoying this video stay tuned right here to find out how she had to hide from her ex-husband after after getting hundreds of millions in divorce number one stolen pumpkin Angela gulbenkian used her name and social standing in the art community to steal over one million pounds through a phony art deal Matthew tikala co-founder of art Incorporated had

paid funds into Angela's account and in return expected artwork by famous Japanese artist yayoi kusama the artwork called the kusama pumpkin is worth somewhere over a million bucks currently belongs to an unknown person dicola believed that since Angela gulbenkian was a well-known socialite and belonged to their respecter gubelkian family she would be able to broker a deal unfortunately he was wrong while Angela did belong to

the gulbelkian family that didn't mean she was a legitimate art dealer in fact Angela was only with the gulbenkian family through her husband Duarte Glen ticola probably believed that Angela was the real deal because of the weight that the gulbenkian name carried in real life the patriarch of the family kalous was a businessman art collector and philanthropist of Armenian origin born in the Ottoman Empire throughout

his life he assembled a unique collection of art that made his name renowned in art circles his descendants carried on that tradition and that was what gave the equal Ben Kian name its current status when Angela married Duarte gulbenkian she took on the name and became a well-known socialite which was why she was able to approach tikula and trick him into sending her money to broker

a deal she could not complete at the time that Angela had brokered the deal she and her husband were also experiencing trouble with the larger ubenkian family her husband had stopped working for her father-in-law creating some rich people drama the rift also led to her father-in-law selling the home she and Duarte lived in leaving the formerly wealthy Angela in financial ruin it was probably the situation

that led Angela to spend the money tikola paid her on maintaining her lavish lifestyle rather than actually procuring art according to court documents Angela spent over 200 000 pounds on shopping over a 100 on travel hired a private jet and also bought luxury items worth thousands of pounds while all of this was happening tikala was going through immense financial hardship as a result of the deal

in fact he had to close down art incorporated as a result of the realized losses from the scam Angela claims that she was always going to pay the money back she even said that she had a pending deal that would have netted her the Lion's Share of over 2 million dollars unfortunately she was arrested before she could complete the deal she was charged in court and

was eventually found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison on December 21st 2021 Sheikh Mohammed the ruler of Dubai was ordered to pay his wife princess hair more than 700 million after the gavel dropped during their divorce proceedings but that's not the craziest part a judge also ordered Sheik to remove an Instagram post containing a passionate poem he wrote to his wife after leaving him

in 2019 and fleeing the Emirates City with their two children the post included a not so subtle threat I don't care if you live or die when Sheikh posted the controversial Instagram post the Royal marriage was Far Beyond repair implicit death threats tend to do that but just a few years prior the marriage was the Envy of many around the world it was a unification of

billions of dollars in ancient titles like a British royal wedding but with more money way more money Chic whose full name and title is Sheikh bin Rasheed al-maktoum has an estimated net worth of 14 billion though at the time of his divorce he was estimated to be worth around four to six billion he inherited his fortune from his father who was the leader behind Dubai's transformation

from a desolate Port City in the 50s to the architectural Behemoth it is today Rashid invested his oil money into the city creating a robust economy that doesn't just rely on its ample reserves of Black Gold Sheikh Rashid intended for his children and grandchildren to inherit something that would continue after the oil Ridge dried up Sheikh Muhammad and other members of the Dynasty are involved in

managing financial institutions Banks construction companies and real estate since taking over as ruler of Dubai in 2006 Sheik oversaw his father's vision and brought it further than anyone could have imagined today Dubai looks like something out of a Star Wars film however despite its futuristic and Progressive looking architecture the city or Emirate is ruled by a monarch a style of government many modern westerners don't agree

with nevertheless Sheikh Mohammed in his temporary still live as they did centuries ago including Royal marriages the Chic and Princess Haya first met at equestrian events as it so happens princess heya grew up riding horses in equestrian competitions she was even good enough to attend the 2000 Sydney Olympics where he had the privilege of carrying her country's flag during the opening ceremony like an Emirates State

Jordan is ruled by a monarchy however Jordan's hereditary rulers are kept in check by a constitution heyya is Jordan's princess her father the former king of Jordan and head of the House of Hashim connects her to a long line of rulers that Trace back to 986 A.D making her a great match for Sheikh Muhammad in 2004 the royal couple married in a lavish but humble ceremony

in Hayes home in Jordan the ceremony took place in a decorated living room area where Muhammad then 55 and Haya who was 30 at the time sat on a couch with her parents they casually conversed said their vows signed their papers and forged a new Royal Diner honesty between their countries the media described them as the perfect couple like their British contemporaries the Sheikh and Princess

appeared in public together as two Royals as a team princess heya was often seen and photographed at social events citizens of the United Arab Emirates saw their princess wearing beautiful dresses an array of big fancy hats and giving a warm genuine looking smile to cameras and people alike they were proud of their Princess and The Happy Family she was helping create the couple had their first

child in 2007 a girl named chica Al jalila five years later they had a boy named Sheik Zaid the Royal quartet seemed to be a happy family they smiled together hugged each other and looked about as normal as a royal family with billions of dollars good luck but that was out in public behind the gold curtains was a problem waiting to reveal itself Russell flowers was

a bodyguard and security expert who worked for princess Haya during her time in Dubai he can be seen in many photos with Princess Hannah walking behind her his brow furrowed as he absorbs her during international events flowers is a big Burly guy and looks like your typical bodyguard though he's not all that into horses he has a lot in common with ham they both call England

Home flowers lives in Suffolk while Haya currently resides in a mansion in Kensington princess Haya attended school there and fell in love with the culture and in 2017 she fell for flowers as well according to travel records Haya took flowers on almost every international trip she took since 2017. flowers official position was close Protection Officer meaning wherever hail went flowers Fallen at the peak of their

Affair Hale would travel to her family's country estate in England with flowers among other exotic locations all the while buying her Protection Officer a Range Rover an expensive hunting rifle designer suits and a luxury watch while staying in England heya who's typically required to have two guards with her would dismiss the other guard but rarely waved her at flowers eventually the other officers caught on to

the affair they decided the information was too valuable to waste so the security team in charge of heya blackmail the princess the team told princess heya that they tell the public all about the affair if she didn't pay them hey in a panic tapped into her 10 year old daughter's bank account withdrew 7.5 million and gave the money to her security team however loose lips sink

ships and where did the affair made it back to Sheikh Muhammad there's a picture taken during the Royal Ascot in Berkshire England showing flowers holding Haya and Muhammad's seven-year-old son the small gesture didn't seem like much at the time still it probably leaves a sour taste in Sheik's mouth when he looks back at his marriage to princess Hannah it's safe to say Muhammad did not take

the news that his wife was cheating on him very well without her knowledge Sheikh Muhammad divorced Haya under Sharia law on December 19 2019 meaning they were no longer married in Dubai at least he announced the divorce course on the 20th anniversary of haya's Father's death the timing was no coincidence Muhammad was feeling many emotions at once but the main driver of his decisions seemed to

be resentment the ruler of Dubai posted a poem on Instagram that sums up his feelings at that time quite well in the poem he called his former wife a betrayer and accused her of breaking his precious trust Muhammad went on to write that her days of lying were over regardless of what they were as a couple in other words Muhammad didn't care about the past he

wanted to make sure haya's future was in Dubai so that she could face the consequences of her supposed crimes as the last words of Muhammad's poem read I don't care if you live or you die regardless of whether she lived or died princess Haya didn't plan on staying in Dubai so she fled the city with her two children seeking asylum in Germany while heading to England

Haya was scared she feared for her life her children's life and their freedom before she left Hale learned something about her husband and his other children specifically the sheikhs daughters that made her flee as soon as she could the princess had the right to be afraid shika Latifah Muhammad's daughter from a previous marriage mysteriously disappeared after getting on his bad side she didn't know for sure

at the time but haya's suspicions were warranted and a video shared by activist chica Latifah spends 39 minutes inside her friend's apartment talking about how cruel and controlling her father could be after introducing herself her title and her father's name and title Latifah warned the viewer that if they're watching this video her life is in danger Latifah explained why revealing that her father had kidnapped her

sister shamsa years ago after she tried to run away at 18. she also claimed her father would hurt anyone to protect his reputation even his own family Latifah asked that if anything were to happen to her this video would go public then she stopped recording afterward Latifah and her friend Tina wahanan got in a car and fled Dubai for the nearby country of Oman they kept

driving until they got to the coast then ditched the car for a pair of jet skis and rode out to a yacht resting in the dark blue Waters commanding the yacht was herv Joubert a former French intelligence officer he and his crew helped the two women onto the yacht once on board Latifah contacted someone in Dubai to notify them she was leaving the city about a

week later the yacht saw three large vessels pop up on their radar the vessels were speeding towards them the crew realized the people racing after them were imrati's Special Forces as they got closer Radha Sterling an activist helping Latifah Escape Dubai says she received a voice message from sheika begging for help as the Special Forces boarded the Nostromo then she heard gunshots Sterling didn't hear from

Latifah after that neither did the world however Haya knew her husband well enough to figure out what might have happened to Latifah it was the same fate hayaan knew she had to avoid being held hostage in Dubai princess Haya made it to England with her children safe and sound but the battle was far from over he had left behind more than just an ex-husband she'd also

left her things behind so she and Muhammad took their case to the high courts of Britain Sheikh Muhammad sought to have his children return to Dubai while Haya applied for her children to become Wards of the court and as if to add salt to Muhammad's reputational wound she applied for a forced marriage protection order Paya was granted both orders after many months of fact-finding and deliberation

the high courts of Britain decided to release Sheikh Zaid and shakia jalila and taheya's custody the court found enough evidence to say Muhammad probably abducted his two daughters thus taking away their Liberty by holding them captive in Dubai they also found enough evidence to confirm Muhammad had been stalking Haya via Pegasus spyware which she supposedly used to hack hey his phone these issues were more than

enough to eliminate Muhammad as a reliable caretaker the Pegasus spyware and abduction controversies also didn't help Muhammad keep his money that flew away in droves after the judge ordered Muhammad to pay his ex-wife over 700 million it was one of the biggest divorce settlements in history some of the 700 million was tied up in assets that Haya had bought in Dubai assets like horses jewelry oat

couture clothing and ponies for the kids all of which amounted to tens of millions of dollars the designer clothing was nearly 100 million all on its own however most of haya's settlement money went toward maintaining her multi-million dollar English Estate and paying for lifelong security for her and the two children Haya also convinced the court to force Muhammad to pay each child an allowance of 5

million per year and 15 million when they become adults by comparison Bill Gates is only leaving his children 10 million in his will but that's nothing new for the ex royal couple princess heya and Sheikh Muhammad spent lavishly when they were together one court record claims the couple once spent 2.6 million during a summer vacation abroad and though their relationship may be over they're still the

same Big Spenders living lavishly just in different parts of the world click to watch one of these next videos let us know in the comment section what you'd rather have as a gift a million in cash or a 5 million dollar painting