Adva Lavie

Introduction

Adva Lavie — the 29-year-old Los Angeles model, influencer and OnlyFans creator also known as “Mia Ventura” — was already awaiting trial on six felony counts for allegedly using dating apps to get inside wealthy people’s homes and steal from them when a newly revealed search warrant added a darker twist: Beverly Hills police had also been investigating whether she drugged her onetime fiancé, billionaire and former California gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, with ketamine. The probe surfaced on September 17, 2026, when the New York Post reported the warrant affidavit the Los Angeles Times had obtained; it landed with her case suspended pending a court inquiry into her mental competency. The ketamine claim remains uncharged and untested — her attorney declined comment — and she has pleaded not guilty to every count she does face.

Background Information

Lavie — whose aliases also include Shoshana and Shana, per the Los Angeles Times — built a public identity as a glamorous, jet-setting model and social-media figure; tabloid coverage brands her a “Penthouse Pet.” Prosecutors allege that from 2023 to 2025 she met wealthy older men and younger women on dating apps in Westlake Village, West Hollywood, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, posed as their girlfriend and travel companion to gain access to their homes, and then stole cash, gold and high-end designer items. Cloobeck, 64, is a real-estate magnate and one-time California gubernatorial candidate who ended his Democratic-primary bid in late 2025. He and Lavie were engaged, but he called off the wedding in early June 2026 and she moved out of his $26 million Beverly Hills mansion; a person close to the pair told the New York Post that Cloobeck nonetheless remained friendly with his former fiancée and “still cares about Adva.”

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations. The claims in this section are allegations from Los Angeles County prosecutors, LAPD warrant filings and police statements as reported by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Fox 11 and NBC Los Angeles. Lavie has been ordered to stand trial on the theft-related counts but has pleaded not guilty to all of them, and none has been tested at trial. The ketamine allegation is an open police investigation only — she has not been charged over it — and her attorney declined comment. She is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The public record stacks three sets of allegations against Lavie:

• The dating-app theft case. Los Angeles County prosecutors allege she cultivated online relationships with wealthy victims in order to burglarize their homes. On March 23, 2026, she was held to answer — ordered to stand trial — on six felony counts: two of grand theft, two of unauthorized use of personal identifying information, and two of first-degree residential burglary, one with a person present. If convicted on all counts, she faces up to eleven years and eight months in state prison.
• The Coachella allegations. While out on bail, Indio police say, Lavie attended the Coachella festival at a man’s invitation and stole an $8,600 Rolex, $700 Louis Vuitton sunglasses, a Louis Vuitton card holder and nearly $2,000 in cash, then drove away in his Cybertruck. She has not been charged over those allegations.
• The ketamine investigation. In an August search-warrant affidavit seeking access to her phone, LAPD Detective Andrea Marsh wrote that Beverly Hills Detective Steve Own “was familiar with Lavie because he himself had been investigating whether Lavie was drugging her fiancé Steve Cloobeck with ketamine.” Cloobeck had already filed a report with Beverly Hills police, a source familiar with the case told the Times, though the warrant does not reveal its contents and the department declined to comment. Prosecutors also played jailhouse recordings at an August hearing in which they said Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.

The drugging probe and the theft case intersected in July: Detective Own — already working the drugging question — spotted Lavie at the Azur restaurant out on bail, apparently without her court-ordered ankle monitor, which was reporting her location at a nearby Peninsula hotel; she was taken into custody.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said when she was bound over: “At her trial, we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant exploited trust built through online relationships to gain access to victims’ homes and steal from them.” The consequences mounted while the charges remained untested. Beverly Hills police took her into custody around 10:30 p.m. on July 28 on a Riverside County warrant alleging grand theft and a misdemeanor court-order violation for allegedly removing the monitor. A judge then ordered her held without bail in Van Nuys Superior Court. Her defense sought a mental-health diversion program and a judge denied it; on August 26, criminal proceedings were suspended after a doubt was declared about her mental competency, with a hearing set for September 9. The scandal also caught Cloobeck: charged April 28 and arrested in West Hollywood in May, he pleaded not guilty on August 7 to felony counts of attempting to prevent or dissuade witnesses plus a misdemeanor count of annoying telephone calls allegedly directed at an alleged victim’s attorney; his attorney has reportedly called the charges false.

Current Status

As of the September 17–18, 2026 coverage, Lavie’s trial remains pending but suspended after the competency doubt; the coverage cited does not report the outcome of her September 9 hearing. She has been held without bail since August 1; no report in the coverage cited describes her release. No charges have been filed over the Coachella allegations or the ketamine investigation; the Riverside County grand theft charge remains pending alongside the six LA County counts. Beverly Hills police and a spokesman for Cloobeck have both declined to comment on the drugging probe.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Whatever the verdicts, the influencer brand Lavie publicized is effectively over: she has been in custody since summer, her aliases are now attached to a bound-over felony prosecution, and the newest allegation recasts her public story from dating-app thief to suspected ketamine schemer — a label that will follow every future proceeding. Even an acquittal would come only after charges, a competency fight and two years of headlines dismantled the only public identity the record shows her holding. For Cloobeck, the aftermath includes a collapsed engagement, his own pending witness-dissuading charges and a spokesman unwilling to discuss the investigation touching his name.