Libbie Mugrabi has accused her billionaire ex-husband David of hiring a hit woman to kill her as she arrived at court wearing a $25,000 bullet proof vest.
The New York socialite, 43, showed up to family court in lower Manhattan to demand a restraining order against her ex-partner and full custody of their two children.
Mugrabi donned black sunglasses, a white see-though dress revealing her underwear, and sling-back kitten heels as she arrived at court on Wednesday.
Libbie told DailyMail.com: ‘A lady was waiting outside my house for seven days.’
At the hearing, the judge granted Mugrabi a temporary restraining order against David for herself and her 14-year-old son Joseph.
David and Libbie Mugrabi went through a messy $100million divorce in 2020, which included a fight over a $72million Manhattan townhouse, his family’s art collection estimated to be worth $5billion, and their Hamptons home.
They were together for 13 years before they separated.
The socialite showed up to family court in lower Manhattan with a $25,000 bullet proof vest shielding her chest – as she claims her ex-husband hired two Russian hitwomen to kill her
Libbie Mugrabi stepped out of her car donning sunglasses, a white see-though dress revealing her underwear, and sling-back kitten heels. She wore a bag from her own brand, L’scher
Libbie told DailyMail.com: ‘A lady was waiting outside my house for seven days’
David and Libbie Mugrabi (pictured in 2018) went through a messy divorce in 2020
Libbie stepped out in Manhattan – amid the city’s yellow smoke due to fumes from Canadian wildfires – and said: ‘A Russian woman called Devora told me David was trying to kill me.’
She claims that the woman told her she was friends with David – and the pair ‘do deals together.’
Mugrabi claimed the woman told her that her ex-husband one day asked ‘if she knew somebody Russian to hire to kill me’ to which the woman responded ‘you can’t do that to the mother of your children.’
The socialite added: ‘David says I’m a liar and make false police reports. That’s called gaslighting that’s called narcissism.’
This is not the first time Mugrabi has brought her marital issues to court.
She filed a restraining order against her ex-husband in 2018, accusing him of stealing $250 million worth of art out of her Hamptons home and beating her up with a Keith Haring sculpture.
Mugrabi said outside court: ‘This is not my first time here [in family court].
Libbie MuGrabi shares her lavish lifestyle on social media. She split from her billionaire husband in 2020
The socialite wore a see through white dress as she arrived in court this afternoon
Libbie Mugrabi arrives at family court wearing a bullet proof vest
‘This is my second time now. First he [David] beat me up and now he’s trying to kill me. I gave him a green card when I married him.
‘He’s from Colombia and has five passports. He’s holding my kids’ passports so I can’t take them out of the country. I signed the wrong divorce agreement which said I have to stay within five miles of him and I’m not allowed my children’s passports.
‘I got divorced during the lockdown and he stopped paying child support and alimony because of Covid. I’m putting my foot down and I’m here to get custody.
‘I have to stay within five miles of him to see my children. He pays $5,000 a month in child support that’s all. He doesn’t pay for the children, I pay it out of my alimony which is $65,000 a month.
‘When we got married the agreement was I was going to have two children and make them after his parents that’s why I didn’t have a pre-nup.
‘He had no money in his account I had half a million dollars I gave it to him.’
In April, a New York judge ordered Mugrabi to fork over $1.8 million in unpaid rent and utilities on a lavish Upper East Side condo she once lived in.
Mugrabi with her billionaire ex-husband
She filed a restraining order against her ex-husband in 2018, accusing him of stealing $250 million worth of art out of her Hamptons home and beating her up with a Keith Haring sculpture
Mugrabi strikes a sultry pose next to her Balenciaga handbag
Art mogul David Mugrabi is pictured leaving a court hearing at New York County Supreme Court on December 6, 2018
She was cited in two lawsuits that claimed she stopped paying her $28,000 a month rent on the East 82nd Street apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Debra James granted the property’s landlord a $1,815,238 judgment which includes taxes, court papers show.
Mugrabi – the ex-wife of billionaire art dealer David Mugrabi – said she permanently relocated to a home in the Hamptons and said of the reward granted in court that it ‘seems insane.’
Mugrabi had been issued an eviction notice from the property in October before the lawsuits against her were filed.
In November 2022, Libbie Mugrabi was arrested for allegedly breaking her ex-housekeeper’s phone and threatening her with a knife and mop handle when asked for the money she owed her.
David’s Syrian family are legends in the art world – and are worth an estimated $5billion. He met Libbie at The St Regis Hotel in Aspen, Colorado and got married in 2005.
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