LA model and influencer charged with using dating apps to burglarize homes of elderly, wealthy victims

A Los Angeles exemplary and societal media influencer is facing aggregate felony charges aft allegedly utilizing dating apps to burglarize the homes of aged people, prosecutors said.

Adva Lavie, 27, who is besides known arsenic Mia Ventura and is simply a erstwhile Penthouse diagnostic model, allegedly posed arsenic a woman and question companion to summation entree to victims’ homes earlier stealing cash, golden and high-end decorator items, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. She has besides been described successful media reports arsenic an OnlyFans model.

Lavie, who instrumentality enforcement said drove high-end cars similar a Mercedes and a Porsche, allegedly targeted victims, including affluent older men and younger women, successful Westlake Village, West Hollywood, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.

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Left: Adva Lavie, besides known arsenic Mia Ventura, attends Teatro Live Powered By Lemon Soda Music astatine AVALON Hollywood connected Jan. 29, 2025, successful Los Angeles, California. Right: she attends the 2021 Maxim Halloween enactment Produced by MADE Specia astatine Hyde Nightclub connected Oct. 31, 2021 successful Los Angeles, California. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images for TEATRO Live; Paul Archuleta/Getty Images )

She antecedently pleaded not blameworthy and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected April 6. She is presently retired of custody connected an ankle show and has been ordered to enactment distant from the alleged victims.

Prosecutors said Lavie carried retired the strategy betwixt 2023 and 2025, allegedly utilizing dating apps to cultivate relationships with victims earlier gaining entree to their homes.

Lavie was held to reply connected March 23 connected six felony counts, including 2 counts of unauthorized usage of idiosyncratic identifying information, 2 counts of expansive theft and 2 counts of first-degree residential burglary.

Left: Adva Lavie, besides known arsenic Mia Ventura, attends the 2021 Maxim Halloween enactment Produced by MADE Specia astatine Hyde Nightclub connected Oct. 31, 2021 successful Los Angeles. Center: Lavie attends the Teatro Live Powered By Lemon Soda Music astatine AVALON Hollywood connected Jan. 29, 2025, successful Los Angeles. Right: She attends the Teatro's Golden Soirée Pre-Oscar's Gala connected March 9, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images for TEATRO Live; Paul Archuleta/Getty Images for Teatro)

If convicted connected each counts, Lavie faces up to 11 years and 8 months successful authorities prison.

"This ruling means the grounds successful this lawsuit volition present beryllium presented earlier a jury," Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.

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"At her trial, we volition beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that this suspect exploited spot built done online relationships to summation entree to victims’ homes and bargain from them. Her quality to deceptively power others, whether successful idiosyncratic oregon online, has present travel to an end," Hochman said.

Adva Lavie, besides known arsenic Mia Ventura, is shown successful a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department peculiar bulletin alongside vehicles authorities said were linked to a residential burglary bid targeting victims done dating apps. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)

In an October peculiar bulletin, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released a poster of Lavie on with images of the high-end cars authorities said she drove. The vehicles see a achromatic Mercedes-Benz coupe sports car and a achromatic Porsche SUV.

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Michael Sartain, big of the podcast "Access Vegas," said that portion a impermanent connected the show, Lavie went into the greenroom and stole recognition cards and currency from the purses of each the pistillate panelists, according to KTLA.

"She got up astatine the 45-minute mark, and she was gone for 45 minutes and conscionable went done everyone’s bag," helium said.