Former models expose the ugly truth of the beauty industry | 60 Minutes Australia

good evening and welcome to 60 minutes i'm tara brown first there was harvey weinstein and then jeffrey epstein two men so corrupted by their own power and money they thought it entitled them to sexually abuse any woman or teenager they wanted now one of the biggest icons of modelling stands similarly accused of being a sex fiend you mightn't recognize his name but for decades frenchman gerald marie was the super agent who decided or torpedoed the careers of supermodels he even married one of the most famous of them all linda evangelista but our global investigation has uncovered more than a dozen former models with shocking accusations about the 70 year old they say he's a predator who ritually abused and raped young women including minors in his care tonight they're demanding gerald marie be held accountable for his depravity [Music] irresistibly drawn in by the bright lights and alluring promises stunning girls parade the catwalk recognised and celebrated for their beauty but the glamour can be model thin wake up grab a brush and put a little makeup as all these former models discovered making it into the coveted world of runways and magazine covers can be an ugly business hello ladies welcome to 60 minutes thank you for joining us they've come from all over the world to find one another i'm in boulder colorado i'm in london uk western europe oahu hawaii brisbane australia sharing the same shocking experiences of intimidation sexual harassment and rape when they first started out as models in paris i knew he had all the power and i was a foreigner i was all alone i knew enough to know i didn't have a chance and they were also the victims they allege of the same man the former head supremo of the elite modelling agency in europe gerald marie the agent behind the biggest models in the world he attacked me in the middle of the night and he raped me in the middle of the night i had no power i had no voice i said the word no now decades later for the first time it was almost like this was his kingdom the swiss's domain these women have come together for one reason to make gerald marie accountable it is my hope that gerald would experience what any predator should experience and that is prosecution and incarceration i like the other thing we've uncovered hidden camera footage locked away for the last 20 years which exposes gerald marie's lascivious appetite with allegations too serious for french investigators to ignore could time be up for the once untouchable gerald marie we're not 17 anymore we're not children anymore we're adults and we know what happened to us and we do know who did it ah mr marie 60 minutes australia twelve women have spoken about sexuality you'd like to say mr marie [Music] it was the era of the supermodel with french model impresario gerald marie almost single-handedly transforming top models into worldwide superstars he even married one canadian beauty linda evangelista [Music] being an agent in the 80s was so spectacular and exciting and glamorous money was everywhere and we made lots of it as vice president of elite chicago in the 80s marie p anderson reveled in those heady days and as part of the elite company she happily and unwittingly sent american models to elite's uber agent gerald marie and his star factory in paris when you meet a lot of beautiful girls all day long some pop out because they have something else to say or something else is happening in their eyes and their way to express themselves too gerald then in his mid 30s was at the top of his game with an eye and as he would be accused a creepy ponchon for young models slowly but surely i was getting phone calls from europe from the models complaining about gerald marie and telling me stories of either sexual harassment or sexual assault and they would swear me to secrecy so i never betrayed their trust how many girls did you get calls from my memory serves um four to five girls in 1986 unaware of those calls a gorgeous and vulnerable 17 year old cariotas was on her way to paris deemed too exotic for the american market the young runaway was sent to try out for the masterful gerald marie i had no idea what to find what to expect and really when i was told i would be staying at the boss's apartment you know naively i thought that might be a really good thing maybe somebody saw something special in me so when you first met gerald marie what was your impression of him he was intense he he wasn't a a warm open friendly guy it was very business-like he was very cold yeah i felt definitely inferior carrie is now 51 and lives in boulder colorado with her husband and two daughters today paris is a long way away except in her memory she says she can never erase from her mind the night gerald marie is still married to supermodel linda evangelista at the time came into her room and attacked her i remember i came back after a full day of castings and was cold and felt terrible and went to bed and it was at some point in the night that i woke up with gerald on top of me and forcing himself on me and i did my best to try to fight him off and i remember a certain moment of of completely giving up of being completely terrifying and completely ashamed um and so immediately after that attack what did he say to you almost shaming um rather cruel and no conversation you know there was nothing there was of course no apology it was just business as usual moving right along but trapped by her circumstances carrie says business as usual now meant she was at marie's toxic whim forced as she was to stay in his apartment how many times did he attack you you know i don't know the number i know that it was over months he held the cards he held the power you know i didn't have a parent to call at that time i didn't have money of my own um i didn't have you know a roof over my own head everything was dependent upon him and and him giving it to me and looking back i was i was a perfect target for so many reasons i respected him i was a bit afraid of him because he had so much power he was the adult in the room and i was the teenager wendy walsh was 18 when she first went to paris to try modelling it was 1980 and back then gerald marie was the head of the paris planning agency which would later merge with elite as so many others attest gerald used a well-oiled ruse to get wendy alone her female booker was asked to set up a meeting one day at the agency pamela slipped me a piece of paper with an address on it and said gerald wants to see you bring your portfolio he wants to talk you tonight at his apartment like carrie wendy's account of what happened at that so-called meeting is harrowing he grabbed my breast and he grabbed my hips and he said i like this i like this he took my hand and he took me into a little bedroom off the kitchen and he laid me on the bed and i i was frozen i managed to say i'm not i'm not on the pill and he laughed and he said oh really i'm not on the pill either and then so quickly he turned me over i felt him sliding my jeans down and i'm like what the heck i turned and looked over my shoulder and said no and he spit in his hand put the saliva on his penis and raped me anally and i didn't tell anybody about this for nearly 40 years it must be very difficult for you to retell it again now what made you stay silent for so long i felt stupid i felt ashamed these alleged attacks happen behind closed doors by 1998 rumors of abuse were rife prompting an undercover team of journalists to investigate what they recorded [Music] has been buried for the last 20 years that tape is absolutely crucial evidence [Music] this is it the elite model look contest the biggest most prestigious of its kind it was 1998 and a groundbreaking investigation was underway into rumors of sexual abuse and rape of young models by one of the modeling agency greats the president of paris elite gerald marie no one had come forward officially but i had been told by people in the industry that he he did abuse young women and teenage girls freelance journalist lisa brinkworth took her story to the bbc and eminent documentary maker donald mcintyre their ambition was to uncover the suspected exploitation behind the glamour industry-wide so for a year lisa went undercover as a model and donal as a fashion photographer giving me access to photographing naomi campbell kate moss some of the worst photographs ever taken of some of the most beautiful women in the world and uh i just blagged my way in and um told a few tall stories and next thing uh i knew i was in the company of um some of the most powerful and i would say dangerous man in the industry this is my friend mike from ireland very quickly donal going under the name of mack mcintyre got very close to gerald marie i like the other things you know what i mean it was quite clear that sex was on the agenda all the time these guys their average night out was either if they're not with their models young and old on the table drinking having cocaine they're going to brothels and having cocaine or drugs or doing whatever else they do you know i have a little problem here right these guys were in loco parantis they're in the role of a parent this is the first time this undercover footage has been seen in 20 years a legal case burying it for the past two decades here gerald is leeringly referring to an elite look at the year contest which saw girls as young as 13 and 14 compete to win a modelling contract but it was gerald's plans for the most beautiful of them that was stomach-turning come with a big boat we just get off the boat to go and look at the girls [Music] we witnessed the culture a culture of sex we heard them talk about in the most graphic terms we talked about the elite model look contest in nice as an opportunity for him um to enjoy the company sexual company of uh of underage girls it was quite clear no parents no no no parents in the boat are chaperones gerald marie says yes they're words they're embarrassing words but that's all they are it was like locker room talk boys talk do you accept that as a defense i don't accept that at all and i think the testimony of uh the women in and around that world uh kind of kind of paints a very different interpretation of that while donal was shocked by what he saw and heard never did the undercover team expect that one of their own would become one of gerald marie's alleged victims i didn't want to be a victim i wanted to be the journalist exposing this guy so that was really um it was very traumatic playing the role of model lisa brinkworth managed to snag an invitation to one of marie's regular dinners night after night young models from the agency were required to dine with marie and his businessman friends the conversation at the table was incredibly offensive to these young girls really bad language lots of sexual innuendo then gerald marie turned his attention to lisa [Music] and then in front of the table of people offered to pay lisa for sex i still didn't feel afraid all i thought was i'm getting all of this on camera um and you know he's exactly the person that we'd been told he was and this is all really good evidence for us but what happened next was not caught on tape with lisa's hidden camera accidentally knocked out of the way despite the public setting lisa says gerald unexpectedly and shockingly jumped her completely out of the blue he walked over to me straddled me on my chair um pinned me down to the chair i couldn't move and i could feel he he has an erection and he was thrusting himself um into my abdomen and just simulating sex it was the most horrific thing and i i couldn't get him off me and i was absolutely terrified i thought i was going to be raped and um the worst thing about this was that that's the thing that gets me every time actually that is that where all these men sat around laughing sorry it's okay sorry it was that's that was almost the worst part of it no no one helped me um and it was so normal it was so normal to them can you tell me what you witnessed in regards to his behavior towards lisa i saw him mount lisa we were in a nightclub in brothel and i saw mount lisa and uh thrust into her i didn't want the thoughts included in our program why didn't you want that included in the bbc documentary there was a lot of [ __ ] i felt really ashamed um i didn't tell my family i didn't tell anybody i didn't want my parents seeing this i i didn't tell anybody was your intention to actually report the assault i wanted to um but in that room that night i was um i was directed not to report it at the time because it would cut short our investigation and in my shock and in my trauma i i went along with that how do you now view the direction that you were given not to report this to police given what the subject matter was of your documentary yeah now i realize that actually that would have been crucial that should have happened it should have been reported gerald marie would later deny the assault but in 1999 the bbc ran its expose of the fashion industry with gerald marie's bad behavior around young models front and center 11 30. i'll see you for 11 30. the worldwide condemnation was damning and the reign of gerald marie was judged to be over but not for long the industry you know didn't just forgive him they didn't convict him they gave him more business and he continued to make millions over the next two decades paris is the fashion capital of the world the epitome of glamour success and power but in 1999 the bbc uncovered its sleazy side broadcasting a year-long investigation into posing as a fashion photographer journalist donal mcintyre soon had his biggest catch in gerald marie the head of the elite modelling agency in paris bragging about his plans to have sex with underage models [Music] there were headlines across the world but when you hear it and when you see it from the mouth of one of the most powerful men in the industry then i think that presents a truly shocking picture of fashion and the men in fashion to the world the reaction was immediate the disgraced gerald marie was suspended from his job at elite the biggest modelling agency in the world it was a significant and prized scalp it was quite clear that joe marie was at the top of the totem pole he was one of the most powerful and dangerous perpetrators of abuse that was the allegation but very quickly elite went on the attack suing the bbc for libel and dishonest editing seeking millions in damages donal concedes producers made one questionable edit where a model's comments from two interviews were sliced together to make it look like the one interview the bbc was accused of unethical editing for which it apologized was that a tactic used to paint gerald marie in a certain negative light no i think the the the specific edits which the bbc were i think overly embarrassed by didn't change the truth of it it didn't went nowhere to the truth of what had happened initially the bbc chose to fight elite's legal claim relying on whistleblower omar hafush an executive from within elite itself to prove the documentary had revealed the truth it changed my life when i decided to tell the truth to the bbc i lived three of the worst years of my life after that omar hafuch is an intriguing character a trained concert pianist and wealthy businessman with a seemingly unshakeable honest streak he was the licensee of the elite look of the year contest in ukraine but was appalled by gerald marie's treatment of the young contestants [Music] my first impression about him was that his sexual predator he used to touch the girls he used to show them that he's the one who decide that if they are nice to him they can have a career they can win the contest also and i said to the girl that it's not normal you you're not obliged to sleep with anybody did you ever confront gerald marie about his behavior of course i confronted gerald murray about his behavior several times he was not afraid he was like why you're homosexual he was saying that said no i'm not a homosexual you don't like girls of course i do i do but these girls they their family they send that send them to us because they trust us as a star witness for the bbc omar claims the pressure on him became personal and menacing so much so the bbc supplied him with bodyguards did gerald marie ever threaten you gerald marihe treated me twice once in a restaurant and in paris and a second time it was uh over the phone when he told me that i'm finished and something like that just for clarification did gerald marie ever threaten your life yes gerald marie taught him my life that was very clear to you very very it was very clear omar hafush says he was only ever describing what others had also observed or overheard another former insider marie p anderson once vice president of elite chicago left the company in disgust in 1990 it was on hearing a heated conversation between two female executives gerald marie and the founder of elite john casablancas the women were trying to protect the youngest of their models i'm now hearing the women begging the men to stop sleeping with the 13 and 14 year olds and gerald with his paris accent says uh girls we are men we have our needs and john's response was come on stop being so puritanical it's no big deal and i i i was so stunned listening to that conversation i had to get up and leave and i quit elites because i didn't want to be part of that organization if this is the culture that i have to work within inside of an agency i don't want to be part of an agency so i quit the business boom it's like a baker doesn't mean the cake it was that toxic culture that freelance journalists donald mcintyre and lisa brinkworth exposed so extensively in their documentary but ultimately the bbc back down apologized for its editing error and signed an agreement to never rerun the footage and in doing so sidestepped a potentially massive payout with the settlements yeah it was business so then when elite decided to sue how do you view the bbc's response there wasn't a single inaccuracy in the entire documentary the footage was robust it was fine you have got a few inappropriate and poor edits acknowledge that on one side nothing which went to the truth of the investigation whatsoever and you've got these predatory males admitting what they've done telling the world this is their culture this is their ethos this is the world they operate in when they look after young models no contest [Music] jeremy was fired wasn't he and he was reinstated with the settlement yeah things settled down gerald marie got his job back and with it his glamorous life but now two decades on french prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of rape child rape and sexual assault and marie may not get a second chance not if former top model karaos his victim and greatest pursuer gets her way it's really important in this world that criminals that rapists that you know sex offenders don't keep getting away just because of their position of power paris lawyer and claire lejeune has a big job ahead she carries the hopes of women from all over the world desperate for justice they have claimed to an active criminal investigation in france they were the sexual assault victims of former modeling agent great gerald marie can you tell me how many women do you represent in this investigation into gerald marie well i'm representing 14 women but i have been conducted by some other women they are not ready to speak up not yet how many extra women are talking to you privately i can say more or less 12 on top of the 14 you're representing yeah absolutely do you believe the women of course i do of course i do when you cross check the deposition and the story of every woman you can see you know the same details the same modus operandi uh it's uh it's real we have no doubt about that while the 1999 bbc documentary exposed gerald marie's sleazy behaviour the women he's accused of attacking were then too terrified to talk to see you here today is extraordinary does it today they have found their voice and their allegations chillingly mirror each other's all say they were attacked by gerald six say they were raped i was 20 and i'd only had one boyfriend before i was extremely naive and i was trusting for jill dodd it was 40 years ago and it started with gerald marie kissing her after a night out with others i felt comfortable with him i didn't know that i should be worried and then he kissed me again and then he physically grabbed me and flipped me over onto my hands and knees and raped me from behind violently and i was screaming to stop and know and he he would he i couldn't get it i couldn't get away [Music] the sudden and unexpected nature of the attack on jill is something all these women describe shauna if i can go to you you were 15 i think when you met gerald marie i was flown to paris for the summer and the agent that met with my family said that there would be a chaperone in an apartment and that i would be taken care of there would be nothing to worry about but like all the former models here at the time the teenage shauna lee was required to attend almost nightly industry parties with gerald and his business friends at the end of one such night gerald offered to drive shauna to her apartment instead he took her to his i just started yelling at him and telling him that he was going the wrong way and that that wasn't the way the direction of my apartment and he just didn't listen and then we got to his apartment and he just kind of pounced on me and he was on top of me and then his tongue was in my mouth and i just didn't know what to do i just froze i didn't have any i didn't have any experience with anyone i'm sorry that's okay it's just really painful to talk about i just and i told a model in the apartment and he brought me into his office and he called me out on the rape and he said what are you gonna do go home and flip burgers it was like a horrible humiliating experience i just felt so violated and you know i mean he was older than my father at the time i mean i was 15 he was like 42 years old i never saw it coming so he rapes you and then he threatens you with your career if you dare tell anyone yeah basically he was well he was laughing about it like he thought it was a joke oh my gosh uh first of all thank you sean after sharing your story because it was the first time i heard it and it breaks my heart in 1990 swedish model ebba carlson was 20 when she was called into gerald marie's office and they pulled out all these portfolios with all the beautiful women and some of them were swedish and he said do you know who these women are and i'm like well yes of course they're famous and as he said you know what they did to earn six figures and as he did that he shoved his hand up my skirt into my vagina with his hand and i felt like somebody just chopped my head off because i didn't i just like i was so shocked i i just froze and i pulled away and i'm like i didn't know what to do how to react and i went out of the office and i just sat outside the office on the street on a bench and cried ej moran's account is strikingly familiar ordered to attend dinner and then given some work-related excuse taken back to gerald's apartment i didn't want to go to his apartment um at all but he was my boss once i got upstairs he basically threw me on the bed and put his hand over my face and held me down and started calling me all kinds of names in a low horrible voice and he raped me violently and he was horrible i knew i couldn't report it i i i knew he had all the power and i was a foreigner i was all alone i didn't speak very much french i was in his apartment um you know i i i knew enough to know i didn't have a chance on her first night in paris paula thomas 17 at the time was asleep when gerald marie the boss she'd not yet met crept into her apartment in the middle of the night i woke up to a man sitting on top of me um the bed sheets were pulled down and i heard him say to me um welcome to paris paula it's gerald um i was in complete shock obviously i'd just woken up from sleep and i'd never met gerald before he did actually stop and he did actually leave the room but at that point i was just shaking and didn't really know what to do or what to say a few weeks in another attack this time in gerald's office he pressed himself up against me and he pushed me up against the filing cabinet and he had an erection and he basically said if you want to be paid you're going to have to have sex with me and i pushed him off and left the building as quickly as i could laurie marsden was told she had an enormous future as a model did anyone warn you that you may also become prey in this world no i i went into it very wide-eyed and just you know happy but laurie now a psychologist based in brisbane felt the full brunt of saying no to gerald marie it all happened very quickly but he just pushed me through a door um into another room onto a bed and he landed on top of me and um he's grabbing my breasts and he was pulling up my skirt and then i realized that i was in big trouble that that i was going to get raped so um you know i started struggling more and more and shouting at him to stop laurie says gerald was deaf to her pleas but she somehow managed to get out from under him and run from the room in retribution gerald cancelled laurie's next three cover shoots for the highly sought after elle magazine a message her career at the elite modelling agency was now dead he got off the phone he hung up and he turned to me and he said they're cancelled and i said what's cancelled and he said you're l trips and i said well which one and he said all of them so i um you know that was sort of like the second the second punch you know it was like there was the attack and then there was then there was you know this sort of sabotaging me um in my career and it was that was actually the point where i was overwhelmed [Music] laurie went on to have a great career with another agency but it was a pattern of payback that gerald seemed to use on those who rejected or confronted him and it wasn't just against women a former elite insider omar hafush suffered years of untruthful attacks on his reputation for daring to speak out against gerald marie for which he successfully sued marie omar has now met with french prosecutors to support the 14 former models who accused gerald marie of sexual assault and rape i am talking for only one reason first i want the truth to be known i want that everybody believe these girls because i saw what was going on and because i want these girls to know that they are not alone the french investigation was launched in september last year in response to written allegations made by the women in this story but their greatest legal challenge is that the statute of limitations the 20 years in which to make a complaint to the courts has expired for lawyer and claire lejeune it's therefore critical the more recent victims she has spoken to come forward well the prosecutor has been quoted as saying that it is important to investigate so that there are no forgotten victims you must find that very encouraging yeah absolutely and you know then we need all the victims to to come forward it's very hard to con convince them to speak up unable to have charges brought against gerald marie because of the length of time that has passed these women will be considered vital witnesses in the current criminal investigation but their determination in facing down one of the most powerful players in the industry and demanding change industry wide cannot be underestimated for you personally to take the testimonials of these women what has that been like for you to see them now come together like this and put their names and their faces to this fight for justice they are very courageous it's an amazing work and i know it's i i know it's not easy but um yeah it's because of her that we can get people convicted so they're heroes to you yes they are heroes absolutely [Music] and now this never before seen videotape i mean i was trying to push him off i couldn't could be the legal breakthrough that could change everything and he had an erection he was pushing it into me and and thrusting and it was just absolutely horrific the time i was in shock i came back here i felt absolutely violated um i just both i didn't want you like buttons too it was a bit unprofessional this footage has never been seen before lisa brinkworth made this recording in the moments immediately after she says she was sexually assaulted in 1999. this all of a sudden he just came over and he was on top of me he straddled me pushed himself and pinned me to the channel lisa alleges her attacker was big time model agent gerald marie who was unaware that she was an undercover freelance journalist posing as a model it was just absolutely horrific it was um nourishing her experience to write lisa was investigating marie for a bbc documentary after being tipped off by models that he was a serial sex abuser never did she expect to be one of his alleged victims nor did she ever expect to see this tape again buried as it was by the bbc the bbc locked away the recording when it settled a libel suit brought by the elite modelling agency what really hit home is that there was a 16 year old and 17 year old on the table unbelievably the tape resurfaced when the bbc inadvertently gave it to another journalist in early 2019. so that was an absolute shock to me to hear a woman who i never met didn't know just telling me about what she just witnessed on this tape the shock was made greater by the fact despite many requests the bbc won't give lisa the tape citing legal reasons it refuses to release it without her signing a gag order that tape immediately following the assault is absolutely crucial evidence we've obtained the vision from a confidential source and according to lawyer and claire lejeune the tape could prove the turning point in the case against gerald marie because it has been hidden away for so long lisa was denied the opportunity to use it as evidence of marie's alleged assault before the statute of limitations was reached it's hoped because of that lost opportunity the legal time limit cannot apply to lisa if you can convince the prosecutor and the courts that the statute of limitations needed to be paused in lisa's case what does that do for your case it means that gerald marie could be officially charged for sexual assault so it will be a great victory of course lisa brewing brink rose could probably get justice and that means more than ever before the legal net seems to be closing in on gerald marie at 70 chirald lives on the spanish island of ibiza the holiday destination of the rich and famous [Music] it's here that he has a luxurious clifftop home and far away from the current french investigation he launches by the beach most days and lives a lavish life built off the back of the lucrative modeling industry [Music] still a very active businessman still enjoying the vast wealth and fruits of his trade and until very recently anyway still actively involved in the fashion industry [Music] much to the disappointment of the documentary undercover team donald mcintyre and lisa brinkworth gerald marie continued to work for elite europe until 2011 and then we model management until a year ago he brazen it out i mean would i yeah well i could understand continued working with models all these years gerald marie has always denied all of the allegations of sexual assault and rape and was vindicated when the bbc backed down and settled the libel claim brought against them by elite but the allegations won't go away i watched as girls came in and slept with him and then were passed around middle-aged men everybody could see what he was doing everybody could see that he was abusing his power to form a model kariotis who says marie raped her multiple times when she was 17 he represents the worst of the industry what's been normalized is horrific and and at this point you know we say it is like the wild west you know the modeling industry is totally unregulated despite the fact we have decades of allegations and decades of complaints and and it's time there's a collective rising up and people want to tell their stories and they want real lasting change our repeated requests for an interview with gerald have been ignored agreeing to put the allegations directly to gerald on our behalf and unrestricted by covert travel bans ah mr marie donald mcintyre 60 minutes australia donald mcintyre travelled to ibiza to confront the man he hasn't seen in 20 years thank you very much so we call the police mr murray call the police you realize the french prosecutors please i've got 14 women charging you making ex allegations for assault sexual assault mr marie six women are accusing you of rape you've anything to say it appears gerald marie does not remember donal and isn't bothered in the slightest by the allegations against him nor the french criminal investigation it's enough it's not enough gee it's enough say this say this to the women who claim he's raped and sexually assaulted is this not a problem no he even feels compelled to make fun of mcintyre about what he's wearing you're dressed like a priest mr marie it's no time for joking this is no laughing matter completely unfazed gerald continues eating and mocking donald trump have a beautiful day enjoy you do it but gerald marie may not so easily ignore the women he is accused of hurting they plan to travel covert permitting to paris to give their testimonies in person to the prosecutor so the investigation can progress they believe that there are others out there who should do the same and dance me to the end of love all your stories have been incredibly compelling and yet gerald marie continues to deny that he harassed you or raped you or hurt you or ended your careers you know he denies it he says it's rubbish um what what do you say to him we'll see about that we'll see about that we're not 17 anymore we're not children anymore we're adults and we know what happened to us so um we'll see you in court [Music] i understand how scary it is to come forward we are stronger in numbers and there are other women that are available to support women that are coming forward for the first time so i think anything is possible i don't think this show is over [Music] hello i'm tara brown thanks for watching 60 minutes australia subscribe to our channel now for brand new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss out on our extra minutes segments and full episodes of 60 minutes on nine now dot com dot a u and the nine now app

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Length: 50min 14sec (3014 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Not_a_N_Korean_Spy]

Horrible and scandalous, yes.

Shocking? sadly, not really.

[u/Lookalikemike]

I worked for a photographer in the 90s. Every horrible thing they will say in this is true. The agents, photographers, & bookers were the absolute worst people. I saw mistreatment, and heard much worst stories.

[u/Fuck_You_Andrew]

Do you think these predators have the long con in mind when the make careers choices?IE: Did Larry Nassar get his fucking MD to become a team doctor with the intention of abusing the athletes? Or do we think its something that develops over time?

[u/BartFurglar]

“Shocking?” Unfortunately nobody is shocked by this.. it’s pretty well assumed that this happens on a major scale

[u/asusandacer]

everyone knew the model and fashion industry esp in hollywood was fucked up more than 40 years ago, surprised it took this long

[u/I_Feel_So_Optimistic]

I started modeling in the 90s I went to Elite Model Look 2000 in Arlington TX. I did not get selected to go to National. I was 13. I never met this man, but I continued to model officially up until 2015. I can tell you these truths are rampant and Im glad they’re outing the most powerful. The reality though is this happens on all scales and so many even the less powerful in the industry have gotten away with assault and rape in the industry be they photographer, designer, agent, or other. It happens in the music industry with musicians and in TV as we know with Weinstein. It happens in the corporate world, the religous and teaching sectors. It happens in our homes. We all should know how true it is. It happens to both genders. We need to believe victims. We need to hold these monsters accountable. When you hurt someone like this, it never goes away and in many cases destroys a person.

[u/stejward]

Of fucking course he raped kids.

[u/mn1033]

This is why I look at people like Cindy Crawford who used to be a supermodel, who's adult children are in the modeling industry and have been since they were very young. She knew how toxic and disgusting this profession would be. Why encourage your own to follow in your footsteps. Beyond fecked up IMO. It's like feeding your kids to the wolves.

IIRC Kaia started when she was 13 and Google says that Presley started when he was 16. :\

[u/fistofthefuture]

Anyone seen Neon Demon? Seems like that movie was about this shit just amplified.