Ariadne Getty bids to recoup $200,000 owed to her by influencer Yashar Ali

A Getty heiress is attempting to claw back more than $200,000 owed to her by journalist and influencer Yashar Ali - with a debt collector now trying to seize his future income.

Ariadne Getty, 61, the granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has ramped up her longstanding bid to recoup cash owed to her by Ali, who is allegedly 'secretive' about his assets.

Getty loaned Ali around $180,000 between 2012 and 2014, according to papers filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Ali does not dispute the loans, nor that he defaulted on the initial loan after paying $1,000, and Getty sued him in 2017 for the debts plus interest, according to the Los Angeles Times.

In 2019, a judgment was made against Ali for $166,429. The sum remains wholly unpaid and now stands at $232,769 due to interest, according to the papers.

Influencer and journalist Yashar Ali borrowed around $180,000 from heiress Ariadne Getty between 2012 and 2014, but has still not paid it back, court papers alleged Friday

Getty sued Ali in 2017 for the debts and two years later a judgment was made against the journalist for $166,429. The sum remains wholly unpaid and now stands at $232,769 due to interest, according to court filings

It has now been passed to a third party debt collector, Capital Asset Protection, which is asking the court for the power to seize any future income Ali makes through his Substack newsletter, which has more than 34,000 subscribers, Twitter, where he has more than 700,000 followers, or articles he writes for outlets such as HuffPost, MSNBC News or New York magazine.

The debt collector also wants to seize funds sent to Ali on various online platforms, including PayPal.

He has no property nor 'any known local bank accounts', the court papers allege. 

Arden Silverman, the owner of Calabasas-based Capital Asset Protection, said Ali was 'more difficult than average' to track down.

'He seems to cast more of a shadow than your traditional person,' he told the Los Angeles Times. 'Notwithstanding his persona on social media, he's been a bit more difficult to ascertain his whereabouts,' adding, 'Hiding in plain sight' might be a good moniker.'

Ali, who was born and raised in Chicago, started out as a Hollywood production assistant before becoming a political operative and adviser to now-California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Ali made a name for himself as a journalist and social media star whose most recent reporting - which he mostly breaks on Twitter and Substack - included the takedown of Sharon Osbourne where she was accused of racism on the set of The Talk. Osbourne has denied the allegations of racism.

But in 2021 his newfound status of 'Twitter power broker' was dissected by a profile in Los Angeles magazine, which described a 'checkered history' and his 'tangled relationships' with celebrities across the Golden State.

It added: 'For a journalist who puts so much of his private life into the public sphere, he is secretive and resistant to scrutiny.'

Ali sued the magazine for defamation. Earlier this year, the publication's attorneys persuaded a judge to strike two of his causes of action and are now seeking more than $40,000 in legal fees.

The remaining part of the case is pending.

Ali, who was born and raised in Chicago, started out as a Hollywood production assistant before becoming a political operative and adviser to now-California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Ali befriended Getty after getting a staff job on Newsom's gubernatorial campaign in 2008

The profile, published by the Los Angeles Magazine on Wednesday, delves into Yashar Ali's troubled past relationships with high profile figures and celebrities. He is pictured above in his Twitter profile image

Ali reportedly made friends with heiress Ariadne Getty after getting a staff job on Newsom's gubernatorial campaign in 2008. Getty's family have supported Newsom's political career.

Ali started flying regularly between San Francisco and LA to see Getty at her $14million Beverly Hills home.

Unnamed sources told the Los Angeles magazine that Ali began to borrow large amounts of money from Getty in 2012.

Ali, who was interviewed for the profile, was asked by the magazine whether he had people who would be willing to comment on him for the profile.

He sent the reporter a list of 40 names and phone numbers of high profile people, including Busy Phillips, Piers Morgan and Meghan McCain.

When asked specifically about his fall-outs with the likes of Getty, Ali said he had signed NDAs with them that limited his ability to respond.

'I have grappled a lot with entering into codependent relationships of all sorts over the past decade,' he said.

'Wanting to fix things and wanting to fix too much was one of my dysfunctional behaviors. It's something I've talked about in therapy at length and something that I've worked past but it... still makes me sad when I think about it.'

In the interview, Ali also appeared to address his social media fame and popularity.

'I'm vulnerable on Twitter, and that creates trust,' he said.

'I share things that I care about personally, and I also share the stuff that people would consider to be messy. Somebody I've never met tweeted at me the other day, 'We refer to you by your first name in our household.' As in, 'Today Yashar said this, and today Yashar said that.' Whatever that is, reporters don't have that. I don't know any reporters who have that, which is fine. I'm unusual.'

A hearing on the motion is scheduled for July 5.

DailyMail.com has contacted Ali for comment.