'Lady Mafia' scammer finally breaks her silence after blowing $10M of her clients' cash in Vegas

A glamorous high-flying lawyer who blew much than $10 cardinal of her clients' currency successful Las Vegas has yet breached her soundlessness conscionable months earlier she is acceptable to beryllium sentenced for her crimes. 

Dubbed 'Lady Mafia', Sara Jacqueline King, 40, made headlines successful 2023 aft she was accused of swindling millions retired of investors and friends to money her lavish manner of decorator goods, jewelry, accelerated cars, luxury hotels and a shocking gambling habit. 

Victims said she would regularly boast of her high-profile connections, with photos aboriginal emerging of her posing alongside celebrities including NFL stars Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes successful a consequent lawsuit.

She was besides caught connected camera splashing her ill-gotten gains connected a months-long gambling spree astatine the exclusive $300-a-night Wynn Resort successful Sin City. During this clip she posted pictures connected societal media of wads of currency and decorator goods.

The Newport Beach attorney yet pleaded guilty to wealth laundering and ligament fraud, and faces up to 30 years successful jailhouse erstwhile she is sentenced successful May adjacent year. 

Now, successful a bombshell caller podcast called Lady Mafia, King has breached her soundlessness successful her archetypal interrogation since her arrest.

Speaking to the big Michele McPhee, King boasted however she could 'sell anything' -  'even occurrence to the devil' - and delighted successful her Lady Mafia nickname. 

'I emotion everything mafia. Always been fascinated by the mafia due to the fact that I emotion the powerfulness moves. I ever effort to beryllium the miss astatine the guy’s table,' she said.

During the podcast King revealed she had go bored with beingness arsenic a lawyer and was seeking thing that would beryllium much lucrative.  

'I was looking for a mode retired of law. Law was truthful miserable. I hatred being a lawyer, it makes nary wealth whatsoever truthful fto maine invest. I request to marque money,' she said connected the podcast. 

This, she claimed, is wherefore she launched her institution King Family Lending successful 2018 - which is erstwhile her elaborate scheming began.  

Federal officials said she had utilized this institution to enlistee investors to money concern loans betwixt January 2022 and 2023, and would usage her looks and charm to hobnob with celebrities arsenic a mode to animate trust.

She promised to repay these loans, positive interest, and assured investors that immoderate defaults would beryllium covered by selling disconnected collateral, which included yachts, luxury cars and watches. 

But the business was a sham. Court documents stated that successful reality, King did not money immoderate loans and she did not ain immoderate assets. 

Lawyers besides said that astir of the vehicles King claimed were collateral were successful information cars she took pictures of portion successful Las Vegas oregon astatine a luxury rental car store.

She past utilized the victims' wealth to money her chaotic manner and gambled truthful overmuch she adjacent became known arsenic the 'Slot Whisperer'.

But yet the location of cards began to crumble and she claimed she adjacent resorted to cutting disconnected her ain household successful an effort to fell her antics. 

She was sued by LDR International aft being accused of borrowing $10.2million implicit 97 loans by pledging costly watches and high-end luxury automobiles. 

Former friends past came guardant to accidental they were swindled too.  

King yet admitted to causing 5 investors to suffer much than $8 million, and said she had withdrawn astir $132,156 of capitalist wealth to acquisition a Porsche Taycan electrical sports car. 

As portion of a plea woody she agreed to wage restitution of astatine slightest $8,785,045 - but is yet to beryllium enactment down bars aft her archetypal January sentencing was postponed.

In the meantime, King revealed that she is laying low, with nary buying oregon gambling.

She said she is presently sharing a cramped workplace flat with her parents, grandma and 3 dogs successful Irvine, California - and joked that she takes 'Prozac' to get done it. 

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, podcast big McPhee said King 'became a consenting patsy and wasn't embarrassed astatine all.'

'She wanted to clasp organized transgression beingness alternatively than the information that she was a ace lawyer astatine 1 point,' she added.

After her escapades were made public, King was dubbed 'the pistillate Bernie Madoff' and the 'Anna Delvey of the OC'.

But according to McPhee, she despises the second comparison.

'Anna Delvey, successful her words, was a fake and she wasn’t a fake arsenic she really did propulsion disconnected a batch of accomplishments. She did walk the bar, she did go a lawyer, she did bargain these 2 commercialized buildings,' McPhee explained. 

On the podcast, King continued to boast astir her luxury lifestyle, regaling listeners with tales of staying successful a $6,000 a nighttime backstage villa for escaped - wherever unit adjacent enactment a motion connected her doorway that work 'The King.'  

'The existent amenity of being successful a villa is the butler service. I started with champagne for breakfast. The achromatic butlers would travel successful and provender my dog,' she continued. 

'The bathtub was similar an infinity excavation that would determination over. You don't cognize wherever it is going but it is beautiful'.

Yet contempt this, McPhee inactive believes King got an 'unfair shake'.

'She was ravaged successful the headlines each implicit the satellite and wanted everyone to cognize what truly happened, and is willing to hazard her state for that,' she said.

'I deliberation she conscionable got successful implicit her caput and spiraled into a satellite of addiction and go attracted to danger,' McPhee added. 

'She was much than a taxable matter. It became a relationship and I met her family. I felt empathy for her and wanted to assistance her,' she continued. 

But McPhee admitted that King has struggled to amusement remorse and 'grapples with her ain truth'. 

'She ne'er ever said she wasn’t blameworthy until the past episode. I deliberation she made a batch of excuses and I don’t deliberation she needfully embraced the damage.'

McPhee, who spent a decennary covering  New York's 5 Mafia families, added that King 'is the astir improbable transgression that I person travel crossed successful a agelong time.'

Yet galore others person perfectly nary sympathy for King. 

Her estranged hubby Kamran Pahlavi, who is the grandson of Iran's Princess Ashraf, the precocious duplicate sister of the country's past shah, branded her arsenic 'sick'. 

He 'fled to Morocco' and filed for divorcement successful precocious December 2023, citing irreconcilable differences, with the mates separating aft conscionable 9 months together.

In an email work retired connected the podcast, Pahlavi, who had introduced King to a puerility person who she went connected to scam retired of millions, said 'the daze of discovering the catastrophic concern inactive remains a trauma to this day'.  

Many of her friends who mislaid immense sums of wealth besides stay furious. 

Marie Casillas Berger, 32, a erstwhile assistant, who worked for King successful 2020 alleged that her brag stole $5,000 from her during a 'work trip' to Las Vegas before  'ghosting' her erstwhile she returned to California. 

Berger said King instructed her to usage her idiosyncratic paper for institution expenses and was ne'er repaid. One of the charges was a $3,000 archetypal people level summons to Hawaii. 

'She has nary empathy for anybody,' Berger said. 'She doesn't attraction who she hurts oregon what happens successful the process, arsenic agelong arsenic she has her Saint Laurent covering and her wealth to gamble.'

Friends claimed King besides had governmental ambitions. In 2017, she donated $29,000 to Republican candidates. King besides appeared successful a representation with erstwhile House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, erstwhile VP Mike Pence and erstwhile Senator Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.

Beverly Hills lawyer Ronald Richardson, who represents LDR International, told DailyMail.com that helium does not wholly recognize wherefore the archetypal January sentencing was postponed.

'We are hoping that the justice imposes a condemnation accordant with the sentencing guidelines and orders restitution.’

He added: 'We are conscionable hopeful that Ms. King recognizes that she wounded a batch of radical with her behaviour and that hopefully she volition commencement figuring retired a mode to marque restitution that volition beryllium ordered by the court'.

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