‘Apprentice’ hopeful has X-rated past

The newest season of NBC's "The Apprentice" doesn't debut until next week, but one wannabe business mogul is already grabbing the headlines due to allegations from her past.

Alla Wartenberg, whose "Apprentice" bio describes her as a self-made multi-millionaire who owns a chain of upscale salons and day spas in Las Vegas, allegedly once worked at a Vegas strip club and may have been involved with a man who conspired to rob and murder several individuals, according to theSmokingGun.com.

According to the web site's report, during her days working at The Palomino, an all-nude Vegas club, "Wartenberg developed a 'pretty platonic relationship' with a regular named Robert Acremant, a California businessman who would pay her between $500-1500 (and sometimes more) for an evening's worth of dances."

She reportedly would also occasionally have dinner with Acremant, who once gave her a pair of diamond earrings and also provided Alla with about $500 to gamble, theSmokingGun.com said.

However, it was this courtship of Alla that would allegedly drive a desperate Acremant, who needed money to spend on Alla, to plot the 1995 robbery of two Oregon women — an attempted heist that ended with Acremant killing the duo, the web site reports.

Acremant also murdered Scott George, a California friend, in a second botched 1995 robbery bid, according to the site.

Convicted in the slayings, Acremant has been sentenced to death in both California and Oregon, where he is currently imprisoned. According to investigators, Acremant considered Alla his girlfriend, while she saw him as nothing more than a cash machine, a pleasant mark with whom she shared her phone number, but no intimacies, the web site report continued.

According to Alla, during Acremant's last Vegas visit, in December 1995, he pulled a handgun and stun gun on her as they were parked in a car. As she testified in August 2002 at Acremant's trial for the George killing, he was "panicking and freaking out, telling me that he, you know, he was very upset with me because I never loved him. I just used him for money," theSmokingGun.com added.

Alla escaped the incident unscathed, though she told jurors she was left "emotionally injured and scarred for life" by Acremant, who "led me to believe that he was either in the mob or...one of those big business guys, FBI, I don't know."

According to her bio on "The Apprentice" web site, Alla was born and raised in Kishinev, Moldavia, formerly of Russia and moved to the U.S with her parents in 1988 to fulfill the "American Dream."

At age 19, she purchased her first building, and at age 23 she was one of the youngest pioneers of the spa boom. Recently, she negotiated one of her most lucrative business deals by selling the spa and the salon she owned at a star studded Hotel and Casino in Henderson, Nev.

She successfully balances a happy marriage, motherhood to her four children, and a thriving career in the entertainment capital of the world.

The new season of "The Apprentice" debuts September 22 on NBC.

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