Lisa Storie Avenatti

Biography

Lisa Storie Avenatti is an American Businesswoman & Entrepreneur, she is the CEO of Ikaria Resort Wear. Lisa Storie is the former wife of Michael Avenatti- a popular American attorney & entrepreneur (He rose to fame as a representative of Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump)

Childhood- Family

Lisa Storie was born on the 18th of January 1969 in California, United States. Lisa is half Japanese and half Caucasian, her mother is from Japan. 

Education:

• Graduation: She graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a degree in Arts - BA, with a Major in Psychology, Sociology and minor- Skills and Endorsements [1]
• Masters: She completed her MBA from The Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine (University of California) in 2005 [1]

Marriage

Michael Avenatti

Lisa Storie met attorney Michael Avenatti (he represented Stormy Daniels in her case against former president Donald Trump) at a gym in Los Angeles (there is another version, told by Lisa's friend, according to which the two met in the first-class cabin of an airplane for the first time; the two had a destination wedding with the theme "3A and 3B", the seat numbers the two sat on the airplane and got to know each other.) [4]

The two got married in 2011 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, surrounded by about 20 family and friends. She is two years older than her.

Their relationship soured over the years, they separated in 2016, Lisa filed for divorce in December 2017, the couple ended their marriage after 7 years in 2018. Apparently Michael had affairs on the side, Lisa accuses  Michael of Verbally abusing and threatening her, he also had Alcohol addiction according to her. (According to him, she has a prescription drug and alcohol problem along with laziness; he puts blame on drug addiction for their divorce) [2]

She was granted child support of $80,000, a private jet, luxury items, and share of Michael's property with the divorce in the court.

Image: Lisa Storie Avenatti & Michael Avenatti wedding

Lisa and Michael have joint custody of their son. Their son Tino Avenatti was born in 2014. [3]

She has accused him of not continuing child support, that he owes her more than $2 million in spousal and child support and ducking support payments to entirely avoid them. He is also accused of discontinuing the family healthcare plan which was setup through his company.

Lisa and Michael have had a continued and unsettled dispute:

• According to Avanti, he has given Lisa-
  • 2016 Honda private jet
  • $350k 2017 Ferrari 488 GT Spider
  • 5 luxury wristwatches worth 124k
  • Expensive Art piece- a sculpture by famous architect Frank Gehry
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• Lisa claims: 
  • The plane has $2 million judgment against it
  • The artwork is not easy to sell
  • Watches had a loan of $100k, this could only get $24k in actual from 5 of them
  • Ferrari is on company lease

Lisa owns a two-bed room house on Newport Beach, where she lives with her son.

Speaking of his involvement in their son's upbringing, she called him a dead beat dad who rarely visits him for an hour or two in months (he claims she doesn't allow him to see her son more frequently) ,s he said "Yes he FaceTimes every now and then and I always paint him in a positive light to our son, but really Michael is too wrapped up in himself." [2]

Facts & Trivia

• Lisa loves beaches, She loved Santa Monica as a teenager, She has explored beaches of Indonesia, Greece, Spain & Italy among others. She settled in South California because of her love for the beaches.
• Attorney Matthew DeArmy represented Lisa's case against her ex-Husband Michael Avenatti in the court.
• She is a fitness freak, she actually met her ex-husband in a gym
• Lisa Storie is friends with Michael's ex-girlfriend Mareli Miniutti. They have been seen going to restaurants together.
• Her LinkedIn profile lists her strengths as:
  • Managing customer and supplier relationships
  • Joint venture arrangements
  • E-commerce strategy development
  • Strategic business planning
  • Online marketing strategies
  • Experience in emerging technologies and start-up situations
  • Build teamwork in rapid expansion environments
  • Ability to provide strategic planning and direction
• Modeling: Lisa has modeled for swimsuits and luxury wears of her company- Ikaria.

Career facts

• Lisa's interest in fashion drove her towards a career in fashion, she is also versed with E-commerce.
• Shopping.com: Lisa joined shopping.com in 1997 as one of the business directors. She worked there will 1999
• TheBigStore.com: Lisa moved to TheBigStore.com in 1999 where she worked as an international business operations vice-president.
• PrimeBuyTown.com: After another 2 years, Lisa moved to PrimeBuyTown.com as their General Manager.
• Spot Runner: Lisa worked as a director of consulting services from 2005 to 2007 at 'Spot Runner', 
• GSI Commerce: Soon after her stint at Spot Runner Lisa joined GSI Commerce, it offers e-commerce and multi-channel services
• Radial Inc: she was a director of Commerce at Radial Inc from 2007 to 2011
• Demandware: After GSI Commerce, Lisa worked as a director of digital strategy a 'Demandware', a Massachusetts-based software company.
• IKARIA: Lisa owns the luxury resort wear company, Ikaria produces- dresses, Sarongs, Cover-ups, Jumpsuits among others; the company boasts of using 100% imported silk. They have been covered in numerous fashion magazines such as- Apparel News, Star, Fashion Maniac, Ms Career Girl... Ikaria resort wears are modeled by Barbara Fialho, Liz Mittra, Carola Remer, Raysa Peres, and others
• TRYP Technologies, Inc: She is a member of the advisory board at the TRYP Technologies, Inc, a Rideshare business
• Self- employed: She worked as a free lance business operations consultant and digital strategist from Aptil 2018 to April 2023
• Pivotree: She worked as a full time account director at Pivotree(located in Toronto, Canada) from May 2022-April 2023
• Aspire Systems: she joined Aspire Systems as a full time senior manager of Customer success & digital solutions in May 2023
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Lisa Storie Quotes

• [About her ex-husband's involvement] What infuriated me is that here he is threatening the mother of his child while he and his porn star are the faces of the Me Too movement. It p***ed me off.
• [About news of false accusations on her Ex] It's a complete fabrication, Bruises on my face? It is insanity. He wouldn't hit anybody. Especially a woman. He has got two daughters
• To see him sttanding next to young victims of abuse and representing children at the border, championing their cause, makes me sick when he doesn't care about his own child. [2]

Sources

1. Lisa Storie Linkedin Profile
2. Dailymail TV coverage
3. Dailymail article, 2020
4. ABC News coverage
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