An investigation for "rapes" opened against Gérald Marie

The former boss of the Elite Europe model agency, Gerald Marie, in January 2019. -

• "20 Minutes" revealed, Friday, the filing of a complaint and three reports for acts of rape, sexual assault and rape on a minor against Gerald Marie.

• The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Monday that it had opened an investigation into these facts.

  It is entrusted to the Brigade for the protection of minors.

• Today, 70 years old, Gérald Marie is now the head of the Oui Management model agency, located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

The facts denounced go back more than twenty years.

But they are serious enough to be taken seriously.

The Paris prosecutor's office announced this Monday at

have opened an investigation for "rape and sexual assault" as well as "rape on a minor" and "sexual assault on a minor" against Gerald Marie, the former European boss of the Elite modeling agency.

This follows the filing, Monday, September 21, of a complaint and three reports from a journalist and former models.

As

revealed on Friday, these four women claim to have been victims of the actions of the former leading figure in modeling, creator of the Elite Model Look competition.

In January, several ex-models testified in @ 20Minutes.

Today, the former boss of Elite Europe Gérald Marie is targeted by a complaint for "sexual assault" and reports for "rape" and "rape of a minor".

With @vvantighem https://t.co/HosbirIqGC

- Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) September 27, 2020

Journalist assaulted as she infiltrated the fashion world

The facts denounced cover a large period from 1980 to 1998. Most of them seem time-barred.

But this does not prevent the lawyer for the four women, Anne-Claire Le Jeune, from requesting the launch of a call for testimonies.

"In many similar cases, the testimonies of rape victims, even prescribed, have encouraged other victims to speak out and file a complaint in turn," she explains.

Models in the 1980s and 1990s during the heyday of the Elite agency, Jill Dodd and Carré Sutton explain that they were raped by Gérald Marie while they were staying in his apartment and that they were respectively 19 years old. and 17 years old.

Ebba Karlsson claims for his part to have been the victim of a digital rape in the office of the former boss of Elite when he showed him the portfolio of one of his Swedish compatriots.

Carré Otis in 1989 in the film "Wild Orchid" and in 2019. - Sipa / Carré Otis

Ebba Karlsson in the 1990s and in 2019. - Ebba Karlsson

Lisa Brinkworth, meanwhile, filed a complaint for sexual assault.

Journalist for the BBC in 1998, she explains having been assaulted during a party in Milan when she infiltrated the fashion world by posing as a model, in order to denounce the sexual abuse that reigned there.

Former Elite boss Gerald Marie, 70, 'raped two models aged 17 and 20' https://t.co/UKtnV6j7F7 via @MailOnline

- lisa brinkworth (@brinksmate) September 27, 2020

Contacted many times since January, Gérald Marie never wanted to answer

questions

.

In a statement to the British newspaper

however

he indicated that he "categorically denies" the accusations against him.

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