Libbie Mugrabi on her nasty divorce: ‘I’m lots like Princess Diana’

Six months after her divorce — which has been called the nastiest in manhattan city — from billionaire David Mugrabi was finalized, socialite and art collector Libbie Mugrabi is ready to paint town pink.

"I obtained divorced and my ex reduce me off. every little thing form of disappeared," she informed The post. "You don't develop when lifestyles is convenient. You grow for those who hit the flooring."

It's been a problem to untangle from David and his family, who personal billions in art, together with the biggest assortment of ­Warhols in the world. throughout the acrimonious break up, the couple fought over art, plus a $seventy two million NYC townhouse, a 9-bed room estate in the Hamptons and cars.

Reflecting on it all now, Libbie compared herself to Princess Diana.

"I had the same component as her — I got married younger. She changed into informed what to do and wear. And so changed into I," she spoke of. "You're beneath control and under a rein. It doesn't matter what's fair or what you deserve . . . After divorce, which you can breathe, freed from the gilded cage."

The main difficulty, she now believes, is essential: "I married a person who thought he become enhanced than me."

Mugrabi has launched a line of add-ons, together with this "Divorcee Glam" trucker hat.Tamara Beckwith

Libbie Scher grew up in beachy Deal, NJ. The daughter of a pla stic-surgeon dad and a nurse mother, she loved a Palm seashore holiday domestic, attended Orthodox day faculty and held a basic existence goal: "i needed to get married and have two kids with the aid of age 30."

At 22, having enrolled in culinary college, Libbie met David, an artwork scholar eight years her senior, in Aspen, Colo. Born in Israel and raised in Colombia, David is the son of fabric entrepreneur Jose Mugrabi, an immense art collector who owns some 800 Warhols, apart from works via Renoir, Picasso and more. Libbie and David's 2005 wedding on the Pierre resort changed into attended through celebrities together with the Olsen twins and Owen Wilson.("I didn't know anyone at my marriage ceremony," Libbie said.) There changed into no prenup.

Libbie, forty one, admitted she "wasn't happy" within the union. "It become basically too many americans in the marriage for me — I didn't love it," she talked about, declining to tricky on what exactly that skill. in the hunt for "clarity," she turned to "a committee of helpers — healers, kabbalah, tarot cards, rabbis."

Mugrabi plans to are living it up this summer season at her Watermill domestic within the Hamptons, with dog Bitty through her aspect.Tamara Beckwith

The c ouple, who share custody of their teen son and daughter, break up — and things instantly turned grotesque. Libbie accused David of assaulting her when she tried to remove a $500,000 Keith Haring sculpture from their home, and of transferring possession of their $seventy two million upper East aspect townhouse to an LLC managed by means of his brother.

youngsters they reached a contract in December 2020 — Libbie had sought $100 million and informed page Six she became "very chuffed" with what she bought — the exes have certainly not in fact stopped fighting.

David took her again to courtroom in April, claiming she had now not returned several artworks, a Ferrari and a Porsche. (Libbie's team spoke of every thing has considering that been back.) last month, Libbie filed a police ­record in Southampton, accusing him of attempting to dump damaged art on her.

Libbie poses in her domestic.Tamara Beckwith

"that you could see the harm to the Basquiat. once it's damaged, it loses price automatically. that you could't aid however suppose it changed into a malicious act," Libbie's law yer, Ken Jewell, advised The post. "I'm likely to file some thing to reopen the [divorce] contract."

Mugrabi mentioned she has been counseling different women, a few of them strangers, over the cellphone, assisting them deal with divorce.

"The court docket equipment in new york has no consideration for ladies," she referred to. "[The courts] make girls grovel for the fundamentals that they're used to — for issues they earned and are entitled to — then cut it to a tenth. every person tries to wear you down: the person, the court docket, the attorneys. It's the most corrupt gadget."

After her breakup with David, Libbie admitted she made poor choices about individuals she had in her existence.Tamara Beckwith

These days, she splits her time between ­Miami and Watermill within the Hamptons. She's also planning to buy a home in Maui, where her Libbie Love streetwear line — including trucker hats emblazoned with slogans like ­"Divorcée Glam," "Bougie" and "Gaslighting" — is produced. "Gaslighting ability a person is mentally f–king with you to make you believe you're loopy if you're now not," she referred to. "It's a really regular divorce approach and an abuse tactic." She plans to expand the brand to include keychains, bags and intercourse toys.

Libbie also continues to bring together artwork on her own, and lately purchased a neon piece by way of Tracey Emin. "I feel I even have an ­excellent eye," she referred to.

In June 2020, she drew criticism from The manhattan times for internet hosting a 50-person dinner at art Basel Miami all through the pandemic. That same week, web page Six pronounced, she created "panic" when she scaled a multimillion-dollar unicorn sculpture by Damien Hirst to take a photo.

"My artist friends evaluate me to Peggy Guggenheim," she mentioned of the legendary twentieth-century artwork collector, whose friend defined to Libbie: "She became fast and furious and drove in her personal lane and no person might keep up together with her."

Libbie and billionaire ex David Mugrabi had a remarkably contentious divorce that was ultimately settled in December 2020.Patrick McMullan vi a Getty graphic

Libbie is not any longer dating Brock Pierce, the 40-year-old former newborn actor-became-investor and presidential candidate she turned into first linked to last August, however noted their connection changed into effortless: "He changed into my age. We had the identical cultural references . . . I've on no account in reality dated anyone my age."

After her breakup with David, Libbie admitted, she made poor decisions about americans she had in her lifestyles. "I received robbed through so many people considering I bought divorced — I've been robbed like 10 instances," she stated, noting jewelry, credit score playing cards and artwork she talked about become thieved through onetime friends.

"I'm open and that i'm free, and that i've had some ­really creepy individuals around me. Now I'm being a lot more careful," she spoke of. "I've by no means been 41 earlier than with cash and all this stuff. It's like a rebirth. You should relearn everything."

Libbie dated former baby actor Brock Pierce for a long time, however is now single.ROSE BILLINGS / BACKGRID

Libbie mentioned she has no plans to be part of a "actual Housewives" franchise. She interviewed with producers a few years in the past but was postpone by using requests, including that she drink on digital camera. "They asked me to say, 'Why have one Warhol when you can have them all?' " she recalled. (A source near production informed The put up that Bravo handed on Libbie and never the wrong way around.)

"Plus, that's like a job. i will under no circumstances work for anyone. I march method too [much to] my very own beat to work for any one at this point," she noted. "I'm unbiased . . . I'm chuffed. I believe just like the most desirable is yet to come."

photographs: Tamara Beckwith/new york publish; makeup: Markphong Tram the use of Westmore beauty/MP-IMC PR; Hair: Crystal Anglon