Last December 17, the unlikely May-to-December romance between Stephen Cloobeck and Stefanie Gurzanski sure seemed like it was heading toward a happy Hollywood ending.

That night, at a cost of $130,000, he threw a lavish 26th birthday party for her and her five girlfriends at his $45 million house in Cabo San Lucas, after flying them down to Mexico from Los Angeles on his Global Express private jet. He gave her a $200,000 Richard Mille watch. He plied everyone with $7,000 worth of caviar, 80 bottles of Domaines Ott* wine, 12 bottles of 1942 Don Julio tequila, and $13,000 worth of “swag” bags, filled with specially designed Stefanie Gurzanski keepsakes (embossed with “Baby G AF”—her Instagram bio). He gave Gurzanski and each of her friends a Chanel handbag, totaling $30,000.

They had met in late July (not May, actually)—during the summer COVID lull—and then spent nearly “97%” of their time together, including at Papillon, his Beverly Hills home, which he claims is worth $100 million. They bonded over butterflies. (Papillon means “butterfly” in French.) “Everything in his house is butterflies,” Gurzanski tells me. Cloobeck, 58 at the time and a big Democratic donor who name drops everyone from Barack Obama to Pete Buttigieg, was totally smitten with Gurzanski, a gorgeous OnlyFans model—where pictures of her can be had for a price of as much as $200 a pop—and Instagram influencer, with nearly 2 million followers. “I’ll promote brands, clothing lines, skin care, things like that,” she says.

Cloobeck says he spent around $1.3 million on Gurzanski in their five months together. There was expensive lingerie, Louis Vuitton designer clothes and bags, Hermès clothes, Cartier jewelry, Sephora cosmetics, crab legs, and more watches, Champagne, and tequila. He moved her into a luxurious Beverly Hills apartment—and prepaid the annual rent—so that she could be 10 minutes away from him at Papillon. He authorized her to spend $85,000 fixing up the apartment; she spent more than $150,000 on it, he claims. “She created it into a porn set,” he says. “Little did I know.”

Cloobeck became increasingly infatuated with Gurzanski. He wanted to marry her, even though she was only a few years older than his three grown children. On New Year’s Eve he planned to propose to her with a $180,000, seven-carat diamond ring and a necklace. He had planned for fireworks in Cabo. “I loved her,” he tells me. “She said she loved me.” But instead of joining him, she told him she was going to Miami to celebrate at an OnlyFans New Year’s Eve party. “I felt the need to spend a little time with my girlfriends,” she recalled in a subsequent court filing. Cloobeck went ballistic. “I lost it,” he says. “I went nuclear because I’ve never been so upset and disrespected. I’m the victim. I never felt so bad.” A few days later he tried to propose to her again over the phone, showing her a picture of the diamond engagement ring he had bought her. She turned him down, flat.

She says she was totally surprised that he wanted to get married. That was out of the question for her. This was just a fling. She was young and wanted to have fun. This was hardly the first rich guy with a plane she had dated. She says she would never have married Cloobeck. He “got pretty furious when I said no,” she recalls. On January 4, they spoke again. He says she demanded from him $2 million in cash and a $7 million house in exchange for giving up her OnlyFans account. She says he offered to buy her a house and put money in her bank account if she agreed to give up her OnlyFans account. She told him she would neither give it up nor marry him.

Since then, all hell has broken out between them, unspooling in Los Angeles law offices and courtrooms, online, and in the tabloids. On one side there is Cloobeck, a mega-wealthy real estate player who has golfed with not one but two former presidents. On the other, a beautiful Canadian model using all of the modern digital means at her disposal to gain a following—and steady work. It is, among other things, a generational clash that could portend the end of the era where the ultra-wealthy can use their money and power to make sure they always get their way.

Using Patty Glaser, a preferred lawyer to the Hollywood stars, Cloobeck sued Gurzanski on January 7 in state court, in Los Angeles, for a variety of offenses, including fraud and trespassing. On March 8, Glaser and Cloobeck filed an amended complaint against Gurzanski. He wants his money and his property back. He wants her to apologize to him. She says he wants to humiliate her publicly by putting on the internet for free all of the risqué pictures he says she took of herself, without his knowledge, in his Beverly Hills home, on his jet, and at his house in Cabo. “Little did I know when I turned my back,” he tells me, “she’s doing all these pictures every second of the day in my assets and putting them on the internet. I would have blown a gasket then if I knew that.”

He wants the world to know that he thinks she’s a con artist who preys on older, rich men like him. He hopes his increasingly public campaign against her will get her to stop. “She’s a fraud,” he tells me. “She’s a con and she’s done this before, and no guy has had the balls to do this stuff”—meaning sue her—“because most guys are afraid because they run a public company. I owe nothing to no one.”

For her part, Gurzanski’s Los Angeles lawyer, Arthur Barens, says Cloobeck is “mistaken.” “She is still friends with all of her previous boyfriends,” Barens says, noting that some of them are “very wealthy men.”

On January 12, Gurzanski and Barens asked the California state court for a temporary restraining order against Cloobeck. In an affidavit she filed, she stated that she has been “in fear for my life and well-being” since she broke up with him. She claimed his behavior has been “erratic,” “disturbing,” and “abusive” since they stopped dating and that he had posted on the internet “pictures of me in the nude without consent,” the address of the apartment he had rented for her in Beverly Hills, and pictures of her closets, with all the clothes and bags he had bought for her and that she had bought for herself with his American Express card. “I have not been sleeping normally, and my appetite has also been affected,” she claimed in her affidavit. “I am desperately afraid that Stephen has successfully incited individuals, including a stalker, to come to my apartment to burglarize or hurt me, or worse. I am also very concerned that Stephen himself is stalking and following me to the extent that I am afraid to have a relationship with another person out of fear over what Stephen will do. I have gone as far as hiring a security guard because I am scared of being harmed.”

Cloobeck’s spokesperson calls this “false” and “more fantasy.” “Mr. Cloobeck was not even in the country during the period about which Ms. Gurzanski complains,” he says. “We believe the people she is referring to as stalkers were process servers that Mr. Cloobeck’s attorneys needed to use because her attorney refused to accept service and she was avoiding service.”

She got the restraining order. “I’m scared for my safety because Stephen knows where I live,” she says. “I go outside to take the trash out, and I’m scared that he’s going to hire someone to do something to me, because he has mentioned that he could hire someone. He could hire anyone to kill anyone for $500. That’s something that actually keeps me up at night.” Cloobeck’s spokesperson says “her statement is beyond a lie, it is fantasy; it is preposterous.”

She says he put “a hit” out on her apartment by notifying her social media followers that she has these gifts from him and encouraging someone to return them to him in exchange for a large reward. She says he wrote, “‘Who wants $500,000? This is Stefanie Gurzanski’s address and her phone number. Go get her.’ He’s threatened to rob me.” Cloobeck’s spokesperson denies this. She says she filed a complaint with the police. (Barens says the police have not issued a final report, so he had nothing to share with me from the Los Angeles Police Department. Cloobeck says the police “quashed” her report “because it was a lie.”)

She’s deeply shaken. “What’s sad is that he began to consistently say if I’m not going to marry him that he’s going to ruin me, and it will be my legal death,” she says on the phone from Barens’s office in Los Angeles. “And it will be the end of me. And I can crawl back into a hole and be nothing if I won’t be with him. This went on for a few weeks of him consistently harassing me with text messages and phone calls to be back with him. One phone call would be saying how much he loves me, and then the next phone call would be saying that he’s going to be killing me legally. I was terrified.” Around the time that Cloobeck filed his amended complaint against Gurzanski, in which he accused her of deceiving him about her identity and profiting off the use of his property, she tweeted to her 61,000 followers, “Imagine being so obsessed with someone that you sue them just to be in touch with them.” And then, “Imagine being sued because you’re the hottest girl that persons ever seen.”

If you know Stephen Cloobeck at all, it might be from his two appearances, in 2012, on Undercover Boss, the first of which he tells me proudly has been watched 16.5 million times, even though it was up against the Golden Globes. Cloobeck describes himself as a “self-made man.” His father went bankrupt, and Cloobeck supported him until he died around two years ago. “I became my own man,” he says. “I dance to my own drum.” He went to Brandeis University, expecting to become a surgeon. He got into medical school and law school. Instead, he went into real estate in Las Vegas. He built his first hotel, the Polo Towers, on the Strip. It was, he says, the first “purpose-built” timeshare high-rise in the world. “I’m very proud of my record,” he says. “I worked my ass off and got my ass kicked on the Strip because I was a young boy.” He created Diamond Resorts International, a global timeshare company with more than 400 vacation destinations in 35 countries. In June 2016, Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management agreed to buy Diamond Resorts for $2.2 billion in cash. (Black exited his firm earlier this month but remains the largest shareholder.) Cloobeck’s stock was worth around $500 million. He tells me he’s now worth around $1 billion. “The internet says I’m only worth $100 million, which is just fine with me,” he says. “My house in Beverly Hills is worth $100 million, and I own a $45 million home for cash in Cabo, and I own my own jet. You can do the math yourself.” (Barens claims that Cloobeck is exaggerating his net worth.)

Cloobeck tells me he’s always dated younger women. “I date beautiful women,” he says. “I didn’t know there was an offense to that. I love beautiful women. What can I tell you?” He and his first wife, Heather, were married for 13 months before they got divorced. In 1997 he and his second wife, Chantal Leduc, a sometimes actor, were married at the Mirage in Las Vegas. “Dinner was a splendid repast of Maine lobster timbale on smoked salmon, a Caesar salad, and an entree of tournedo of beef and morel-crusted filet of Lake Superior whitefish,” the Las Vegas Sun reported at the time. They were divorced in August 2018 after 22 years and raised three children together, two of whom are in college. The other has graduated. The Cloobecks remain close. “My code is love, respect, loyalty, and never lie,” he says. “I’m very transparent. I’m not afraid. I’m very thoughtful. And I’m very proud. I’m a proud man.” (He’s not so transparent with his Twitter account, which is open only to “confirmed followers,” of which he has more than 51,000.)

Cloobeck’s other moment of TV fame came during a November 2017 appearance on Stephanie Ruhle’s MSNBC show, where he blasted his fellow Democrats for picking on rich people. He also says that after he used profanity on Ruhle’s show, the MSNBC producers urged him to come back. “You’re great for ratings,” he says they told him. (MSNBC declined to comment.) He says he’s “dear friends” with Bill Rancic, a winner on The Apprentice. They’ve put together a “sizzle reel” called the Phoenix, as in rising from the ashes.

But what he’s most proud to talk about are his political connections and his philanthropy. He says he’s played golf with both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. “Obama calls me regularly,” he says. There’s a picture on Twitter of Obama with Cloobeck and Cloobeck’s son Jake on a golf course. He says he’s “involved” with Obama’s foundation and is listed as having given more than $1 million to it. During the Obama administration, he was chairman and CEO of Brand USA, the country’s tourism bureau. He says he has a picture of himself and Joe Biden in his bedroom, “which he slept in with me” (whatever that means). He says he talks often with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. He says Pete Buttigieg is a “dear friend,” as is Cory Booker. He says he introduced Eric Swalwell to Gurzanski. “I got Alejandro Mayorkas through the Senate,” he adds, referring to the new secretary of homeland security. (A spokesman later clarifies that the two men are “close friends,” and Cloobeck merely “shared some of his thoughts on the confirmation process.”) For 33 years he has been a big donor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He says he bought 50% of the Nevada Independent and “saved them during the pandemic” (as a nonprofit, the news outlet has no owners, but its editor says Cloobeck is a major donor and a recent donation “was very helpful during the pandemic,” but “by no means did he save us from going out of business”). He’s on the Nevada boxing commission and talks to the governor of Nevada “every day.” He also talks, he says, to Gavin Newsom, in California, as well as the attorneys general in Nevada and Pennsylvania. He once considered running for governor of Nevada.

His philanthropy runs the gamut, from Brandeis to a cancer center in Seattle that he funded along with junk bond pioneer Mike Milken, who spent time in prison after pleading guilty to securities fraud, and who was later pardoned by Donald Trump. He says he’s built a church and an orphanage in Cabo San Lucas and has contributed to the Stephen Wise Temple, in Los Angeles, and to Congregation Ner Tamid, in Las Vegas. He paid for the emergency medical facility at Touro University, in Las Vegas. Recently he donated $1 million to pay for the renaming of the Las Vegas airport after former senator Harry Reid. Cloobeck calls himself Reid’s “fifth son” and Reid his “second father.”

Cloobeck was introduced to Gurzanski last July by Katherine Abigail Le, who he says in his legal filings “claimed to be a matchmaker for prominent men.” According to Cloobeck, Le promised Cloobeck that she could find him “the woman of his dreams—one who would take care of, love, and cherish him for the rest of his life.” That was Gurzanski, who, according to Cloobeck, Le said was “a prominent fashion model” and a “good girl” who was looking for a “lifetime partner.” (Le was named as a defendant in Cloobeck’s initial complaint but was removed in the amended complaint.) Gurzanski says she met Le at a Lakers basketball game. “She’s really into sports,” she says. “We have a bunch of mutual friends.” Gurzanski says she decided to meet Cloobeck on Le’s recommendation that he was “a really good person.” (In an email Le writes that she’s not “a matchmaker.” Gurzanski “reached out to me, said she was single and looking to meet a guy who did really well and enter into a long-term relationship,” she continues. “I knew Stephen was looking for someone to enter into a long-term relationship too. When I introduced Stefanie to Stephen I believed she was a fashion model appearing in such magazines as Elle. I had no idea that she modeled nude on OnlyFans or had appeared on Playboy Plus or anything like that.”)

The three of them had lunch together at Cloobeck’s Beverly Hills house. “We were talking about the butterflies pretty much,” Gurzanski recalls. She says Cloobeck flipped for her immediately. “I’d say it was obsession at first sight,” she says. (Cloobeck’s spokesman denies he was obsessed with her.) The next day he called her up and again invited her for lunch and for a shopping spree on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. They went to Louboutin. “He just wanted to buy everything for me,” she says. From the start, she says, Cloobeck gave her his credit card and “told me I could spend whatever I wanted” and “placed no restrictions on me.” She says he also started buying lots of expensive gifts for her and then would say to her, “Now you can never leave me,” or, “You’re going to be dealing with me forever,” or, “I will haunt you for the next 10 to 20 years.” She said the comments made her “feel uncomfortable.” (Cloobeck’s spokesperson says these comments are false.)

She says she wondered about his behavior, but not a lot. “Right off the bat he just wanted me to be his girlfriend,” she says, “and was just right off the bat trying to do anything he could to make that possible.” She thought he was “a little bit out there” and “very immature.” She adds, “He was just very, like, seemed a little crazy.” He didn’t seem like a prude, she says, “given the fact that I’ve done nude modeling and the way he talked about that, how it was so cool.”

Gurzanski says she has been doing nude modeling since she left high school in Ontario. She went to a casting call for Playboy in Montreal. The Playboy folks took one look at her and decided that was that. “I just ended up having the photo shoot right off the bat,” she explains. She was Cybergirl of the Month on playboy.com in March 2014. She was the 2017 Mexico Playmate of the Year and did some photo shoots for Playboy in Venezuela. She was on the cover of Elle México. She loves it. “It was what brought me out of a small town and exposed me to the modeling world,” she says, “which I’ve obviously created from scratch for myself and continue to this day.” In her legal filings Gurzanski explained that she works with a modeling agency, the Unruly Agency, that “manages” her OnlyFans content. She used to be known as Stefanie Knight and as Stefanie Gurzanski Quenville before shortening her name.

Gurzanski says Cloobeck knew all about her modeling career from the start of their relationship and encouraged her in it. She says he subscribed to her OnlyFans account. (He says he was on her OnlyFans account “for a second…I’m so naive.”) She says he paid for some of her professional photo shoots at his house that generated content she later posted to OnlyFans. “He did this as further gifts,” she explained in her temporary-restraining-order filing.

She says she would send him pictures of herself that she was going to post on OnlyFans and that he would then send them to his friends, “which I told him not to do,” she says. She says he had huge pictures of her on the walls of his bedroom and in his bathroom at Papillon. She thought that was “weird,” even though, she says, she loves the photos and is proud of them. “He wanted to show me off,” she says. “The photos made me uncomfortable because he would invite his son and daughter in his bedroom, and there’s a huge photo of me naked on the wall.”

Cloobeck’s spokesperson denies all this—he says it was Gurzanski who urged him to hang the picture of her on his bedroom wall, and says his client was not aware of her nude modeling, only learning of her OnlyFans shortly before the two split.

Cloobeck says that at first he was okay with Gurzanski’s profligate spending on lingerie, hair extensions, makeup, and the 10 or so mirrors she bought for her new apartment near him. He became furious, though, when he figured out what she was doing. “She created a porno set,” he tells me, “and I had no idea. She’s buying all this lingerie. I’m like, Okay, I think it’s for me. No. She’s wearing it so she can do these fucking porno shoots, and I’m blinded. I’m buying all this makeup. I’m buying all her hair extensions. I’m buying everything. Believe me, everything. And I’m like, ‘So you’re using my money to make money on OnlyFans? I’m not getting this program here.’ Sexy pictures, as long as they’re for me, I’m cool with it.” In his lawsuit against her, Cloobeck claimed Gurzanski was not a “legitimate” fashion model and that her international magazine covers, including her August 2020 Elle México cover, were part of a “pay-to-play” scheme. (He threw her a party to celebrate the Elle cover.) Barens, Gurzanski’s lawyer, says his client never paid to be on the cover of any magazine.

Last September, around Rosh Hashanah, Gurzanski posted to her OnlyFans account a topless picture of herself standing against a brick wall, wearing only a yarmulke from Cloobeck’s son’s bar mitzvah and holding a single Granny Smith apple in one hand and a container of Mike’s Hot Honey in the other. “Who does this shit?” Cloobeck asks me, incredulously. Apparently, he does, Gurzanski says. “He actually gave me that idea, and he gave me the yarmulke, the honey, and the apple, and said, ‘I’m Jewish and I think that this would be a good idea for your OnlyFans fans that are Jewish. I bet this could make you a lot of money if you did some photos like this.’ So he said, ‘Can you take these photos and send them to me.’ That’s actually why he has that photo, because I sent it to him personally.” Cloobeck’s spokesman contests her version of the Rosh Hashanah photo shoot: “Mr. Cloobeck is a practicing Jew. He would not desecrate a yarmulke in this way.”

In his lawsuit Cloobeck also claimed that she posed in the bathroom of his jet, in his private suite at the Mansion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, in his bedrooms, on a yacht he rented, “and anywhere else where she could sneak a photo to peddle on the internet.” He added that “on occasion,” Gurzanski “secretly posed in the nude while Cloobeck’s teenage daughter and staff were in the house.” (Barens replies, “There are no pictures on the internet taken at his house, period.”)

Gurzanski tells me Cloobeck knew about it all. In fact, she says he encouraged it. “He always knew that I was taking these photos,” she says. “My life has basically consisted of me constantly taking photos. There’s been times where even my own mother was around. She obviously knows that I take these photos for OnlyFans, and she was actually sitting with Stephen, and I was naked, frolicking on the beach [in Cabo] with my friend and we’re taking photos. I used to take them at his house in Los Angeles as well, and his plane, which he always knew I was doing.” Cloobeck’s spokesperson calls this a “lie,” but Gurzanski tells me, “He paid my photographer sometimes to come over and take my photos. Yeah, he let me take out his plane to shoot nude on it and thought that it was cool. I sent him the photos, and he said that they were amazing. He always had new ideas for me as well for OnlyFans, because he was so interested in it and thought it was so cool that I was making so much money off of it.” She says she made “several hundred thousand dollars off OnlyFans” during the many months before she met him. She says Cloobeck is a “huge liar,” and is “trying to make me seem bad and like I’m a fraud for doing that, when it was all his idea. He liked it and he was well aware of everything.”

After the initial flame between them began to dim, Gurzanski says she noticed that Cloobeck’s moods began to change. She had heard from his friends that he had had a drinking problem and had been to rehab in Florida. (“This is yet another desperate lie,” Cloobeck’s spokesperson says.) She says she never saw him drink but suspected from his increasingly strange phone calls to her that maybe he had started. “[During] the repetitive phone calls that I’ve received, my business partners have received, my mom, my friends, and my landlord have received,” she says, “he has been completely intoxicated, belligerently drunk, and dangerous on every phone call and voicemail and text.”

Cloobeck can be intense, that’s for sure. At one point during our conversation, I ask if he had gotten carried away with Gurzanski. He says no, and goes on: “She told me—this was the con—that she had post-traumatic stress from her past guys, and I was the first real nice, honorable, great guy she’s ever met that doted on her so much and paid so much attention to her.” (Gurzanski’s lawyer calls this a “fantasy”—“he wants to act like he rescued her from something.”)

Cloobeck asks if I want him to be “really open with me.” Why not, I reply. “She was not a top 10 blow job of mine, okay,” he says. “You want me to be real? She was not a top 10.” He then disparages her body. “She hardly works out,” he says. In her temporary-restraining-order filing, Gurzanski included a text from Cloobeck: “BTW. You are getting FAT.” She says he’s told her that her “boobs suck; they’re sagging.” She says Cloobeck has tried “to slut-shame me and has tried to body-shame me, and I’ve had to be really strong and confident in myself to not let those things affect me.”

Gurzanski says she has offered to find ways to settle with Cloobeck. She says she has offered to give back all of the gifts he bought her and the things she bought for herself with his credit card, as well as “more of my own personal property,” in exchange for him leaving her alone “and to stop harassing my life and to stop terrifying me.” She adds, “I would give anything, but he will not leave me alone. We already have tried.” She says he only wants her to get back together with him. “That’s why I’m here,” she says, “and I’m dealing with everything that he’s trying to hit me with, which is trying to ruin me legally and trying to ruin my image. That’s all he cares about. If I’m not gonna be with him, he doesn’t want me to be happy or with anyone else.” She tweeted about this on March 7: “I don’t want you. But I don’t want anyone else to have you.” She says he thinks because he has so much money, he has power over her. “What he wants to do is completely try to ruin me in any way that he can,” she continues, “so that my only option for having a normal life would be to be around him.”

Cloobeck’s spokesperson says he is the one trying to settle, having asked her to return her gifts so he can give them to charity, take down any photos that show his property, and provide a public apology to him. Gurzanski says despite the temporary restraining order (TRO), he’s still “harassing” her. He texted her, “To hell with the TRO. My mother just died.” She says Cloobeck continues to try to contact her. “Even if he’s not reaching me directly, he finds a new way,” she says. “This whole year for me has been mental abuse consistently.” On April 1, Barens filed a motion with the court seeking sanctions against Cloobeck, in excess of $100,000, for violating the temporary restraining order. “Have you ever heard that thing about giving somebody enough rope to hang themselves?” he asks. “He keeps sending us evidence all the time.” Cloobeck’s spokesperson says, “If Ms. Gurzanski or her attorney are troubled by Mr. Cloobeck’s emails or phone calls, why don’t they just block his email and phone number?”

Cloobeck says he thought Gurzanski wanted to have a long-term relationship with him. That she understood what he wanted from her because he was “so open” with her. “I thought, Wow. I met this girl who wants to have a life,” he says. “She would get jealous if she saw another girl’s name pop up on my phone. She goes, ‘I’ll kill that girl because no one is taking you from me.’ I thought this was a girl that could grow and learn, be exposed to things. I could teach her, and she could become a woman.” (Gurzanski’s lawyer says “she never got jealous of other girls. Didn't care.”) Now Cloobeck says he won’t stop until “everything is disgorged” and he has all the content she made using his “assets.” And until she apologizes to him. “She said when I met her, ‘I was in a ditch before I met you, Stephen,’” he tells me. “Guess what? I want her to go back to where she was before she met me, period. That’s it. Go do whatever you were doing before you met me, before you came into this wonderful life. I don’t care.” At one point Cloobeck texted Gurzanski that she had embarrassed him with his “associates” and his “political folk” and that their dispute had turned into “all out WAR.” He texted her saying, “I will never stop until I see justice,” and, “We will make sure you never sleep well until you are wearing Orange and resting behind bars.”

Barens, Gurzanski’s lawyer, knows she still has quite a battle ahead. “He is a nightmare,” he says. “He won’t go away. We have hundreds of emails from this guy, phone calls, attempted contacts through third persons, calling girlfriends of hers, asking them to get her to call him.”

Barens says Cloobeck is “just obsessed with it, in my opinion. Of course I’m just a lawyer, but I think Stefanie probably agrees with me. I don’t think he was ever in love with her. I think it was an obsession with her. It seems like if you really love somebody, you wouldn’t act like this. I think she had a friendship with him. He took it differently than she did and went crazy. And now he thinks that he’s the only man she’s ever known that was rich and had planes. Those types of guys are all over Beverly Hills. The only thing unique about this guy is he lies and shows off.”

Gurzanski says she knew after about two months with Cloobeck that she had made a mistake getting involved with him, and that there would be no Hollywood ending. But she doesn’t think her modeling career has attracted to her a certain kind of compulsive man used to getting his own way. “It’s 2021,” she says, “and everyone is on OnlyFans or Instagram. Everyone has a public life these days. The problem is having people become obsessed with you. And now Stephen has become my stalker and won’t leave me, my friends, my family, and my business alone.”

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