The goal of noisy high-dimensional phase retrieval is to estimate an s-sparse parameter from n realizations of the model . Based on this model, we propose a significant semi-parametric generalization called misspecified phase retrieval (MPR), in which ) with unknown f and Cov( . For example, MPR encompasses with increasing h as a special case. Despite the generality of the MPR model, it eludes the reach of most existing semi-parametric estimators. In this paper, we propose an estimation procedure, which consists of solving a cascade of two convex programs and provably recovers the direction of . Our theory is backed up by thorough numerical results.