Lisa Hochstein turned herself in late Wednesday morning at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, where she arrived smiling with her attorney, Jayne Weintraub. She wore a brown long-sleeved top, blue jeans and brown platform booties as she was booked on one count tied to a wiretap case that has become part of her bitter divorce fight.
Jail records obtained by Page Six showed bail set at $5,000, but Weintraub said Hochstein was being released on her own recognizance. The 43-year-old told reporters she did not want anything to distract from her “big divorce case this month” and said she was focused on the well-being of her children, who have “been through enough.” She also said, “I’ve heard nobody has been charged with eavesdropping in Miami history.”
Hochstein and her ex-boyfriend, Joddy Glidden, each face one count of interception of wire, oral or electronic communications. Authorities say they were accused of unlawfully and intentionally intercepting or trying to intercept oral statements by Leonard Hochstein and people he spoke with between March 12, 2023, and March 31, 2023. Glidden was arrested Saturday, taken into custody and then released shortly afterward.
The criminal case lands inside a divorce that began in May 2022, when Lenny Hochstein filed to end the pair’s 12-year marriage. During that split, Lenny Hochstein dated Katharina Mazepa, whom Lisa Hochstein has accused of being his mistress, a claim both Mazepa and Lenny Hochstein have denied. Hochstein has also reposted an Instagram Story that said damaging information is timed for maximum destruction before key moments, and the goal is to cause the most damage at the most vulnerable moment.
Weintraub, Howard Srebnick and Frank Gaviria said the dispute belongs in family court, not before a criminal judge, calling it part of “a contentious divorce proceeding.” That argument now sits against a formal charge and a booking in Miami, and the next step is how prosecutors choose to press a case that has already spilled far beyond the divorce records.
