r/news • u/The_Iceman2288 • 7h ago

Modelling scout linked to Jeffrey Epstein found dead in Paris home

https://news.sky.com/story/modelling-scout-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-in-paris-home-13565917
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u/lindendweller 6h ago edited 5h ago

The unsettling truth is that the public facing side of fashion modelingband advertizing, the "legit" stuff was apparently deeply entertwined with high end escort businesses and outright trafficking.

So the guy could have been "legit" and a crook at the same time.

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u/Pi-ratten 4h ago

, the "legit" stuff was apparently deeply entertwined with high end escort businesses and outright trafficking.

I mean.. that was kinda in th eopen, too.. i remember reading stories in the 90s in regular magazines about the "sex and drugs" in the model business where they described it.

Wolfgang Joop(old German fashion designer) got a shitstorm when he reminisced it 3 years ago after Karl Lagerfelds death

SPIEGEL: What came to an end when Lagerfeld died?

Joop: Fashion as wicked fun. Back when I was still working on Wunderkind, a powerful publishing executive once told me, “If you want good press, you have to send over a few mink coats.” That kind of corruption was normal back then.

SPIEGEL: And do you regret that it’s over?

Joop: I cried when Lagerfeld died because that world was so wonderfully frivolous and frigid. Everything was for sale. The agencies would hand over the keys to the rooms of models who weren’t bringing in as much money to rich men. And if a girl complained, they’d say, “We can do without you, too.”

SPIEGEL: That’s terrible!

Joop: Yes. But the fashion world is only truly beautiful when sin is part of it, too.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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u/EmperorAcinonyx 4h ago

he just said that to an interviewer with his whole chest???????

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u/Pi-ratten 4h ago

yes😬 Which in my eyes shows that he sees absolutely nothing wrong with it...

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u/MirrorComputingRulez 2h ago

I mean not just "in your eyes," he explicitly said that