MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – An attorney who practices in the New York City metropolitan area and lives in South Florida — where he has founded a yacht club — faced a Miami-Dade judge on a felony charge Wednesday after police said he left a man bloodied in a nightclub dispute on New Year’s Day.
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An arrest report states that Michael Lupolover, 43, of Sunny Isles Beach, surrendered at the Miami Beach Police Department on an aggravated battery charge Tuesday evening.
In a blurb for a podcast interview, Lupolover is described as a “successful lawyer and serial entrepreneur” and “the proud founder of the Lupo Yacht Club, an exclusive membership club that allows its patrons to become fractional owners of a super yacht.” State business records show Lupo Yacht Club is registered to the same address — the luxury Jade Beach condo building — listed on Lupolover’s arrest report.
A licensed attorney in New Jersey and New York, Lupolover also runs an Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey-based firm specializing in debt relief. A verified LinkedIn profile mentions both his legal and boating careers.
According to an MBPD arrest report, at 1:40 a.m. on New Year’s Day, police were called to Queen Miami Beach, located at 550 Washington Ave. on South Beach, regarding a fight.
The report states Lupolover “approached” a man “and began to tell him that he does not belong there” and “throughout the night,” continued to approach his table and “flip(ped) his middle finger” at the victim. It doesn’t specify whether Lupolover knew the man beforehand.
Police said that led to a fight in which Lupolover hit the man on the head with a glass cup, “which caused a laceration to open above his right eye.”
Authorities said Lupolover left the establishment before officers arrived. They said witness statements and surveillance video backed up the victim’s account of the incident.
Lupolover, after surrendering to police Tuesday, declined to speak with investigators, the report states.
A judge ordered he be held on a $5,000 bond Wednesday and issued a stay-away order. Jail records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday evening.