Mr. Brunel has confronted accusations of abuse himself: Three former fashions told The Guardian remaining 12 months that he sexually assaulted them throughout the 1980s and 1990s in and spherical Paris. He has denied the allegations.
Ms. Le Jeune, the lawyer representing the women who declare they’ve been assaulted by Mr. Marie, could be representing these accusing Mr. Brunel. She welcomed Monday’s announcement by the Paris prosecutors as an “encouraging first step,” though she acknowledged she was undecided it would result in prosecution.
Ms. Brinkworth is asking that her submitting be accepted as a correct grievance, whatever the passage of higher than twenty years, based on an outdated video. She contends it makes a direct reference to her assault by Mr. Marie, who left Elite in 2011, though the specifics of the video keep unclear.
After the episode, she was sure by a confidentiality settlement with the BBC and Elite, and so she thought she would under no circumstances have entry to the video, nonetheless one different journalist has simply recently gained entry to it, Ms. Le Jeune talked about.
“Entry to the proof is because of this truth attainable,” she talked about.
The French modeling enterprise first received right here beneath scrutiny throughout the 1980s; in 1988, as part of a “60 Minutes” program, Diane Sawyer interviewed loads of youthful fashions in Paris who accused Mr. Brunel and associates of drugging and raping them. Their accounts did not result in a correct investigation.
Mr. Marie, a former husband of the supermodel Linda Evangelista, has moreover beforehand confronted allegations of sexual impropriety and exploitation, an experience many youthful fashions as quickly as felt to be inevitable within the occasion that they’ve been to advance of their careers.
In 2011, Ms. Sutton, a former Calvin Klein model who labored beneath her maiden title, Carré Otis, revealed a memoir known as “Magnificence, Disrupted.” In it, she alleged intimately that Mr. Marie raped her when she was 17 and he was her agent. She was renting a room in his residence in Paris on the time.
