Cara Delevingne and family claimed the license scheme for real estate deals

Millionaire Cara Delevingne and her family are claiming money from Covid’s license scheme for their real estate business.

The 28-year-old model is the director of the family company, Harvey White Properties Ltd, alongside his father Charles, 71, and two sisters Poppy, 34, and Chloe, 35.

According to The Sun, the business, which has an impressive portfolio of properties estimated at £ 45.5 million, cut rentals in half during the pandemic.

Cara’s father, Charles, confirmed to the publication that he is claiming the scheme. It is not known how many employees were laid off, but it is estimated that the company employs five people.

A source close to Delevingne said: ‘Just because Cara has a lot of money, it doesn’t mean the company does.’

While another added: ‘It has been a difficult year for everyone and the owners have obviously been hit hard, but it is still surprising that people who are known to be very wealthy seem to have claimed donations financed by taxpayers.

They added that there is no ‘suggestion of any irregularity’, saying it is’just not necessarily what the public would expect. ‘

MailOnline contacted Cara and Charles’s representatives for a comment.

Any qualified company can claim money from the scheme contributor to help pay employee salaries while the pandemic and national blockades continue.

Harvey White Properties Ltd, of Delevingnes, was featured in a list published in January of thousands of companies that made use of the scheme.

Cara is said to be worth around £ 30 million and won an impressive £ 15.7 million last year, making her the highest-paid model in Britain.

London native Cara also gains a lot thanks to modeling for some of the industry’s biggest cosmetic brands, including Burberry, DKNY, Jimmy Choo and Rimmel.

In a 2019 interview, Cara, who is also the director of her father’s £ 45 million real estate firm, Charles, admitted that money is not everything to her.

She said: ‘I had a very privileged education in terms of being able to travel and grow in London, which was incredible for me.

‘Having a wonderful family and my father … he didn’t grow up with a lot of money and is extremely ambitious and determined to take care of his family and all of us. I realized that money is not everything. ‘

The news of the license came after it was reported that Cara and her model sister, Poppy, put their Hollywood Hills home on the market for $ 3.75 million, four years after buying it for $ 2.5 million.

The pair, who are descended from the British aristocracy, jointly bought the two-story home on the west coast of the United States in 2017, but now want to make a substantial profit by putting it up for sale.

Formerly owned by Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto, the house measures a sizeable 4,021 square feet and offers space, seclusion and privacy, courtesy of its privileged location on a ‘quiet’ Hollywood street.

Cara and Poppy worked with architect Nicolò Bini for 18 months to redesign the house to its exact specifications, with the interior displaying a series of light and highly distinctive flourishes.

According to the Observer, Poppy and Cara bought a four-bed, three-bathroom house in the 1950s style of actor Jared Leto in 2017 for $ 2.05 million.