Gérald Marie, accused of rape
In the late '70s, Gérald Marie had a reputation for being an aggressive agent, both in landing mannequins good deals and taking them to bed.
John Casablancas founded Elite in 1971 with Alain Kittler.
According to the book
Models
, by Michael Gross (citing an associate, Francesca Magugliani) Casablancas had Marie well measured: “It's sordid.
Hit the girls.
He rapes them.
Take cocaine
.
Later, he signed him up as head of Elite's European operations.
Gérald Marie's past is made up of
top models,
glossy paper and partying.
According to new accusations, that past had a criminal relevance: girls, sometimes minors, were forced to sleep with him or directly raped.
Against the former head of the Elite agency in Europe, the Paris Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into
three accusations of rape and one of sexual assault.
The present of Gérald Marie, 70 years old, still active, is built on prudent silences and a denial to
The Sunday Times.
He currently runs the Oui Management agency, which according to some sources he would also be the owner and which
has access to the most distinguished magazines
and high-end fashion brands.
The future of Gérald Marie is not written.
The fact that the Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation does not mean that it will end up before a judge.
Before that, the brigade for the protection of minors will verify the accusations.
Justice must also
decide whether the facts have prescribed or not.
Gérald Marie, in 2000, in Nice, together with several aspiring models.PASCAL GULLOT
One of the accusers is not a mannequin but a journalist.
Lisa Brinkworth was already on the verge of ending Gérald Marie's career in 1999. That year,
the BBC broadcast the report she did with a hidden camera
after posing as a former model.
In the recording, the manager was seen offering her what today would be 600 euros to sleep with her.
The reporter Donald MacIntyre, who was the star of the BBC investigative program then wrote in his book
MacIntyre undercover:
“I have spoken by phone with Gérald who was as effusive as ever and he has reiterated the invitation to Nice
.
'I have never eaten so much chichi in one weekend.
Chichis like strawberry cakes
.
'
Plans are in place to have fun in the Elite Model Look contest.
'64 girls until noon, we were the 15 best ... everyone leaves and we stay a few.
Ah '».
With the report published, Marie and another director of the modeling agency were suspended ... and reinstated shortly after.
The agency accused the BBC of defamation and the thing ended with an amicable settlement.
Important detail.
According to Lisa Brinkworth,
pressure from the BBC led her not to report the events,
which could void her prescription.
Specifically, Brinkworth says that on October 5, 1998, while sitting on a chair, Marie sat on it
"and began to rub her sex"
with the "underbelly" of the infiltrated reporter.
The BBC has told France Presse that it will "cooperate fully with any criminal investigation."
Gérald Marie, at the time of the broadcast of the report, avoided the questions of a French television station: "There is no case."
Gérald Marie collected girlfriends until he found the top Linda Evangelista he was married to from 1987 to 1993. One of the rape accusations would have taken place
at the couple's home
one night Evangelista was away.
Carré Otis Sutton, who was a minor at the time, supports it.
Another American, Jill Dodd, also accuses the manager of having raped her at her home in the early 1980s. The third complaint against Marie is that of the Swede Ebba Karlson, who claims to have suffered digital penetration in a casting in the early 1980s. 90. A friend of the model claims that she told him about it in her day.
The accusations have not come as a surprise to Marie Anderson, vice president of Elite Chicago in those years.
She assures 20 minutes that she
already prevented the girls who went to Paris
.
And she claims to have been attended to a dispute in Ibiza between Marie and Casablanca with two employees of the agency, Lisa Herzog and Trudi Tapscott: usions They cried and begged them to stop sleeping with minors »» After reminding them that the age of consent
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