![]() ![]() We will hold defendants fully accountable for their brazen scheme, and this courtroom victory is just the first step. Orin Snyder, an attorney for Elite World and its CEO Julia Haart said: “Julia should be commended for wanting to reform the modeling industry. Lawyers for Elite didn’t respond to a request for comment. The plaintiffs claim that “some of the older men who currently lead have engaged in sexual relations with the models they represent, and otherwise condoned, facilitated, or knowingly turned a blind eye to similarly exploitative conduct.” He also had an affair with supermodel Stephanie Seymour in 1983, when he was 41 and she was 16. The legendary agent, who died in 2013, settled that lawsuit. ![]() Miami real-estate mogul and Elite’s owner, Eddie Trump, (no relation to President Trump) “has a history of choosing men with a sordid past to join him,” claims the suit.Īccording to the court docs, Trump in 2005 rehired the founder of Elite, John Casablancas, who’d been sued a couple years earlier by a woman claiming he sexually abused her when she was a 15-year-old aspiring model. “It is highly disturbing, but perhaps not surprising, that two years into the #MeToo era, a model management business like exists,” says the suit. The plaintiffs say that Elite is “abusing the trust of Women’s models… for their own aggrandizement.” is to put sleazy men in charge, and said they’re worried about the wellbeing of their former model clients. In their suit, Women - which is owned by their co-plaintiff, Elite World - also claim that the other Elite’s M.O. Judge Melissa Crane on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order to stop Elite’s alleged model war against Women. The “mass exodus” was orchestrated by Elite as part of “a systematic effort to dismantle Women and steal the very lifeblood of the company- the models,” states the lawsuit, which asks for damages and for the court to stop the bleeding. Over a dozen model managers, who represented nearly all the talent at Women, also booked it - taking some of their catwalker clients with them, the suit claims. Linda Evangelista twins with 16-year-old son Augustin in suits for charity eventĪ catfight is in full swing between two New York modeling agencies.įamed agency Elite Model Management has allegedly been mounting a “conspiracy” to destroy one of their rivals by poaching its talent - including coverstar Anna Ewers and Victoria’s Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.īetween March and July 2019, 55 models strutted from Women Model Management over to Elite - for a total of more than $22 million in annual bookings lost. Dodd recalled to The Sun: I was sent to parties at rich mens houses that models were required to. Blac Chyna celebrates 1 year of sobriety: This process is ‘not easy’īald Bella Hadid is unrecognizable in AI-inspired Marc Jacobs campaignĬindy Crawford's dad thought modeling was 'another name for prostitution' Elite Model Management in the 80s and 90s. ![]()
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