See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy KRISTINA WEMYSS, GENERAL NEWS REPORTER Published: 18:02 BST, 10 June 2026 | Updated: 18:02 BST, 10 June 2026
A personal stylist to ‘billionaires’ has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than £130,000 in an alleged Gucci handbag scam.Milda Chellingsworth, 43, who claimed wealthy Russians, Arabs and Americans were among her clients, has been charged with three counts of fraud by false representation.The Lithuanian personal shopper previously said she charged £1,000 a day for her services, which included packing holiday outfits for the super-rich and acting as a ‘personal gift shopper’.She allegedly told one investor, Trevor Coop, that she would put his money into expensive Gucci handbags and return thousands of pounds in profit.Chellingsworth, of Sundridge in Kent, has been charged with defrauding him of £52,000 between June 2019 and May 2021.The stylist, who appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court yesterday, has also been charged with swindling another client, Patricia Navarro, out of £78,400 in a similar Gucci bag scheme.And she faces a third charge of fraud after she allegedly abused her role as the agent of a client, Mandy Gray.Chellingsworth is said to have kept money in two bank accounts of her own company, Styling For You, and used the funds for herself, instead of for the benefit of Ms Gray’s business. She allegedly defrauded her client of more than £146,000 between May and August 2023. Chellingsworth reportedly offered a retainer to her wealthiest clients – charging upwards of £50,000 for them to be able to call her 24 hours a daySpeaking to the Daily Mail in 2022, Chellingsworth said she charged £150 an hour to help wealthy holidaymakers decide what outfits to pack.The most one of her clients had spent on this service, she said, was £5,000 – not including the cost of the clothes themselves.‘I’ve packed handbags worth £10,000, diamonds so expensive they travel with an escort, and one six-figure wedding dress that my client hired a private jet to transport to Tuscany for her big day,’ she said.‘Some of my clients’ trips include lunches with royals or presidents. One lady called me the night before her holiday to the US to inform me she’d now be having lunch at the White House.’In a separate interview with Luxury Lifestyle Magazine the same year, she was described as having worked with ‘some of the world’s leading CEOs and industry leaders’, and elsewhere she said she charged a day rate of around £1,000.Chellingsworth also reportedly offered a retainer to her wealthiest clients – charging upwards of £50,000 for them to be able to call her 24 hours a day.She began her career in 2008, and launched Styling For You, which specialises in ‘concierge-level’ styling and wardrobe overhauls, in 2014.Companies House records state that she is the director of SFY Styling Concierge Ltd and SFY Styling Ltd.A hearing is set for July 8 at Croydon Crown Court.
