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Love Island winner Davide Sanclimenti's girlfriend has been jailed for 18 months after failing to declare millions of dollars in income on her tax returns.
Iris Rabaya Au, who calls herself 'The Goddess', received more than $2.6million (£1.95million) linked to illicit funds generated by her ex-partner Adam Iza – a self-styled cryptocurrency businessman who dubbed himself 'The Godfather'
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Au, from Orange County, California, US, was sentenced on September 21 after agreeing a plea deal in March 2025, admitting one count of subscribing to a false tax return.
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As well as her prison sentence, the 37-year-old mother-of-two was ordered to pay $1.4million (£1million) in restitution.
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She has also been forced to forfeit assets including luxury cars, among them a Mercedes-Benz GLS, Porsche 911 and a Ferrari 488 Pista, according to court documents seen by the Daily Mail.
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Au also surrendered 14 Louis Vuitton handbags, three Chanel bags and bags from Prada, Burberry, Hermes, Gucci and Dior – alongside three 'Godfather' sculptures.
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United States District Judge Percy Anderson handed down the sentence.
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Au was represented by Christopher Darden, a co-prosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder trial.
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The influencer, who describes herself as a 'devoted mother, survivor, and entrepreneur', is currently in a relationship with Italian reality star Sanclimenti, 31, who won Love Island in 2022.
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Iris Au is hugged by her boyfriend, Love Island winner Davide Sanclimenti, as they leave Los Angeles Federal Courthouse on Monday after she was given an 18-month sentence
Au, 37, admitted a charge of subscribing to a false tax return and was ordered to pay back $1.4million - as well as surrendering luxury cars and handbags
Au (right) pictured leaving court with Davide and friends influencer Alli Stavro (first from left) and personal injury lawyer Tina Odjaghian (second from left)
The couple began dating in May 2024 and went public with their romance in January 2025 as his ex-girlfriend, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, appeared on Love Island: All-Stars.
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Sanclimenti has vowed to stand by his long-term girlfriend, publicly supporting her on a recent Instagram post.
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Before meeting the reality star, Au was in a relationship with crypto fraudster Iza, 26.
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Iza has been in custody since 2024 and has admitted a series of offences, including fraudulently accessing and selling access to advertising accounts on Facebook, which he used to obtain and conceal millions of dollars of income.
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Prosecutors said Au created shell businesses and opened bank accounts in the names of those companies at Iza's direction.
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They said illicit funds placed into the accounts were used to pay around $1million (£750,000), mostly in cash, to serving Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies who provided private security for Iza.
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Prosecutors said Iza also used deputies to obtain court-authorised search warrants and confidential information targeting people with whom he had financial and personal disputes.
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The funds were allegedly used to buy or lease luxury properties, cars, jewellery and clothing and bankroll recreational spending to the tune of almost $10million.
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Authorities said Au acquired around $16million (£12million) in cryptocurrency for her then-boyfriend using the shell accounts.
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More than $2.6million (£1.95million) was transferred from various accounts into Au's personal bank accounts between 2020 and 2023 that she did not declare to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax service.
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Prosecutors said she wilfully failed to declare the income to the IRS on her tax returns.
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'(Au) set up the financial infrastructure that enabled Adam Iza to move, spend, and conceal millions of dollars in fraud proceeds while she personally benefited from the wealth,' they said.
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'Au concealed entities and income from her tax preparer and filed returns reporting only a small fraction of what she had actually received.
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'Those were affirmative acts designed to prevent the IRS from learning the true extent of her income.
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Adam Iza, the cryptocurrency fraudster with whom Au had been in a relationship at the time
The influencer said in a video posted the day before her sentencing that she had 'made mistakes', to which Sanclimenti responded: 'You never deserved any of this'
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Au has suggested that she was a victim of coercion in a video she shared on social media on Sunday, the day before she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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She said in the video that she had been in 'an abusive relationship with a former partner' during which she 'made mistakes, including with my taxes'.
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'I made mistakes, serious mistakes, and I take responsibility for them,' she said.
'Davide stayed beside me, my family stayed beside me.
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Whatever happens next, it's a chapter.
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Davide, in a supportive comment, wrote: 'I know how much you’ve suffered and you never deserved any of this.
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I’m proud of how strong you’ve been through everything, you gave me strength too… and I really believe there’s so much light and good ahead for you.
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You’ll come out of this even stronger.'
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Au replied: 'Thank you for staying by my side through my hardest seasons & loving me through all the healing.
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I love you.'
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Davide had previously told the Mail that he knew of his girlfriend's legal troubles when they first met, telling us in March: 'The truth is that I knew about her situation from the start which is why I was protecting her.
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Iris is an amazing person who has been through difficult situations that most people could never understand.
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'There's so much of this extraordinary story that people don’t know yet.
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I will be there by her side to supply her as she deserves all the support and understanding.'
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Adam Iza pleaded guilty in January 2025 to one count of conspiracy against rights, one count of wire fraud and one count of tax evasion.
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He is due to appear in court on October 5, and is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence over his involvement in an attempted Bitcoin robbery and kidnapping in Connecticut in August 2024.
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Au made no comment as she left the courthouse following sentencing alongside Davide and two friends, influencer Alli Stavro and personal injury lawyer Tina Odjaghian.
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Ms Odjaghian posted a picture of herself, Ms Stavro and Au to her Instagram Stories following the hearing, captioning it: 'Friends show up for friends no matter what.'
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