Elite Modeling Agency - Child Prostitution Ring?
MajHoople
systematically trying to turn out 15-year old prospective models?
GLC1173
>Any news on the BBC documentary/sting >that trapped a bunch of Armani suits
>systematically trying to turn out 15-year >old prospective models?
Yeah - this in today's New York Post:
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The shamed chief of Elite modeling agency's European operations and
another top executive resigned yesterday after being featured in a
British undercover documentary that exposed pimping, sex and drugs in
the industry.
Gerald Marie, ex-husband of supermodel Linda Evangelista, stepped down
as president of Elite Europe after he was shown in the BBC expose saying
he hoped to seduce contestants in the Elite Model Look contest -- where
the average age of the contestants is 15.
A hidden camera also caught Marie telling a woman reporter posing as an
aspiring model in Milan: "I'll give you one million lire ($525) if you
go to bed with me," the documentary says.
Elite, whose roster of top models includes Cindy Crawford and Naomi
Campbell, said it had accepted the resignations of Marie and of Xavier
Moreau, president of Elite Model Look.
"Although it is clear that nothing improper occurred involving any Elite
model or Elite Model Look contestant in the course of the BBC program, I
recognize that I engaged in conversations with others which were very
inappropriate," Marie said in a letter released by Elite.
Moreau had told the BBC that he and other executives had been engaging
in empty boasts, and said they "deeply apologize if we have offended
anyone by talking crudely."
The bombshell BBC report, which aired Tuesday in Britain, said hundreds
of young girls flock to Milan every year looking for work and wind up
victimized by unscrupulous agents and public relations agencies that
give them free drugs and encourage them to have sex with "clients."
The documentary created a furor in Milan, Paris and London.
In Italy, the prosecutor's office in Milan said it had started a
criminal inquiry to determine whether models were exploited by their
agents or others in the Milan fashion world.
On Thursday Elite's chairman, John Casablancas, issued an "unconditional
apology" to models and their families for the "shocking, unacceptable
and totally incorrect" behavior of some agency executives.
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debby
outragious but it has probably been going on for years. Debby
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