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

good evening and welcome to 60 Minutes I'm Tyara Brown first there was Harvey Weinstein and then Jeffrey Epstein two men so corrupted by their own power and money that they thought they had the right to sexually abuse any woman or teenager they wanted now one of the greatest icons of modeling are similarly accused of being a Sex Fiend, you may not recognize his name, but for decades Frenchman Gerald Marie was the super agent who decided or torpedoed the careers of super

models

. 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 allegations about the 70-year-old.

They say he is a predator who ritually abused and raped young women, including minors under his care. Tonight they demand that Gerald Marie be held accountable for his depravity. He is irresistibly drawn to bright lights and seductive promises. Dazzling girls walk the catwalk recognized and celebrated for their

beauty

, but the glamor can be as fine as the model. We took a brush and put on a little makeup, as all these

former

models discovered when they arrived in the coveted world. of catwalks and magazine covers can be an

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business hello ladies welcome to 60

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thank you for joining us you have come from all over the world to meet I am in Boulder Colorado I am in London United Kingdom Western Europe aahu Hawaii Brisbin Australia shared the same shocking experiences of Experiencing bullying, sexual harassment and rape when they started out as models in Paris.

I knew he had all the power and I was a foreigner. I was completely alone. He knew enough to know that it was not a coincidence and they were also the victims, they allege, of the same man, the former chief supervisor of Europe's elite modeling agency, Gerald Marie, the agent behind the world's top models. , he attacked me in the middle of the night and 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 as if this was his kingdom this was his domain these women have united for a reason to hold Gerald accountable Marie i p Oh, I am hopeful that Geral experiences what any predator should experience, which is prosecution and incarceration.

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Gerald Marie's lascivious appetite with accusations too serious for French investigators must ignore that time could be up for the once untouchable Geral Marie we are no longer 17 years old we are no longer children we are adults and we know what happened to us and we know who did it ah Mr Marie 60 Minutes Australia 12 women have spoken out about sexual is there anything you would like to say Mr Marie? It was the era of the supermodel with French model entrepreneur Gerald Marie almost single-handedly transforming top models into global superstars.

He even married a Canadian

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Linda Evangelista as a The agent in the 80's was so spectacular, exciting and glamorous, there was money everywhere and we made a lot as vice president of the Chicago elite. In the '80s, Marie P. Anderson reveled in those heady days and, as part of elite company, happily and unwillingly sent Americans away. models for Elite Uber agent Jald Marie and her star factory in Paris, when you meet a lot of beautiful girls all day long, they come out because they have something else to say or something else is going on in their eyes and the way they express themselves.

Furthermore, Gerald, then around 30 years old, was at the top of his game with one eye and, as he would be accused of being a creepy ponant for young models, slowly but surely, I received phone calls from Europe from the models complaining about Gerald Marie and telling me. stories of sexual harassment or sexual assault and I was sworn to secrecy, so I never betrayed his trust. How many girls did you receive calls? My memory serves. Four to five girls in 1986, unaware of those calls, a beautiful and vulnerable 17-year-old. -The old Kotas was on its way to Paris, considered too exotic for the American market.

Young Runaway was sent to try out the masterful Gerald Marie. I had no idea what to find, what to expect, and really, when they told me I was going to stay at the boss's apartment, you know, I naively thought it could be something really good, maybe someone saw something special in me, so when you met Gerald Marie for the first time, what was your impression of him? He was intense, he was not a warm, open and friendly guy. he was very professional he was very cold um yes I definitely felt inferior Carrie is now 51 years old and lives in Boulder Colorado with her husband and two daughters today Paris is very far away except in her memory let's be silent for a moment she says she will never be able You erase from your mind the night when Gerald Marie was still married to supermodel Linda Evangelista when he entered her room and attacked her.

I remember coming back after a full day of castings and I was cold and I felt terrible and I went to bed and it was at At some point in the night I woke up with Gerald on top of me and forcing himself on me and I did my best to try to fight him and I remember a certain moment where I completely gave up, I was completely terrified and completely embarrassed, um. and then, immediately after that attack, what did he say to you, almost embarrassing you? um, pretty cruel and no conversation, you know there was nothing, of course, there was no apology, it was just business as usual, moving on, but trapped by his circumstances.

Carrie says business as usual. Now it meant that she was by Marie's toxic whim, forced to stay in her apartment. How many times did she attack you? You know, I don't know the number. I know it was more than months and he had the letters. He had the power. I know I didn't have a father to call at the time I didn't have any money of my own um I didn't have you know a roof over my head it was all up to him and he would give it to me and I would watch I was the perfect target for many reasons.

He respected him. He was a little afraid of him because he had a lot of power. He was the adult in the room and I was the teenager. Wendy Walsh was 18 years old when she first went to Paris. to try modeling It was 1980 and back then Gerald Marie was the head of the Paris planning agency which later merged with Elite, as many others attest, Gerald used a well-oiled Roose to leave Wendy alone. Her Booker was asked to establish a In a meeting one day at the agency, Pamela handed me a piece of paper with an address and said: Gerald wants to see you bring your portfolio, he wants to talk to you tonight in his apartment, like the story by Carrie Wendy about what happened on that call the encounter is heartbreaking he grabbed my chest and grabbed my hips and said I like this I like this he took me by the hand and took me to a small bedroom off the kitchen and put me to bed in bed and I froze.

I managed to say no I'm not on the pill and he laughed and said oh really I'm not on the pill either and then so quickly he turned me around I felt him slide my jeans down and I thought, what the hell? Hell, I turned around and looked over my shoulder and said no and he spit on his hand, put saliva on his penis and anally raped me and I didn't tell anyone about it for almost 40 years. It must be very difficult for you to tell it again. Now, what made you stay silent for so long?

I felt stupid, I felt ashamed while these alleged attacks happen behind closed doors in 1998, rumors of abuse were Rife, prompting an undercover team of journalists to investigate what they recorded, has been buried for the last 20 years. The tape is absolutely crucial evidence. This is the Elite Model Look contest, the largest and most prestigious of its kind. It was 1998 and a ground-breaking investigation was underway into rumors of sexual abuse and rape of young models by one of the big boys of modeling agencies, the president of Paris. Elite Gerald Marie no one had officially come forward, but people in the

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had told me that he, he, abused young women and teenagers, freelance journalist Lisa Brinkworth took her story to the BBC and eminent documentary filmmaker Donal McIntyre, his ambition was to uncover the suspicion of exploitation behind the glamor

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throughout the industry, so for a year Lisa worked undercover as a model and Donal as a fashion photographer gave me access to photograph Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, some of the worst photographs ever taken from some of the most beautiful women in the world. world and uh, I just walked in and um told some fantastic stories and the next thing I knew I was in the company of um, some of the most powerful and I would say dangerous men in the industry, this is mom, my friend, mom from Ireland Donal very quickly pleads under the name Mac McIntyre became very close to old Marie.

I like other things, you know what I mean. Geral Marie, it was pretty clear that sex was on the agenda all the time, man, I love you, so do these guys. their average night out was if they weren't with their mods, young and old at the table drinking cocaine, they were going to a brothel and doing cocaine or drugs or doing whatever else they did. You know, I have a little problem here. the boys were in loco Parental are in the role of parents this is the first time this covert material has been seen in 20 years a legal case that has been going on for the last two decades here Gerald refers lasciviously to an elite appearance of the year contest in which girls as young as 13 and 14 competed to win a modeling contract, but it was Gerald's plans for the most beautiful of them that turned the stomach Miss, I come with a big boat, we just get off the boat to go look the girls this and that and oh you and you and you I always have a couple of friends there, you know, girls that they bring, so we are this street, not Pap, we witnessed the culture, a culture of sex, of which the we hear talk in the most graphic way.

In terms, we talked about the Elite Model Appearance Contest in New York as an opportunity for him to enjoy the sexual company of underage girls. It was quite clear: there are no parents, no, no, there are no parents in the boar chaperone. Geral Marie says yes, his words. They are shameful words, but that is all they are. It was like a locker room talk. The boys talk. Do you accept that as a defense? I do not accept it at all and I believe that the testimony of women from all over that world is something like that.

It sounds like a very different interpretation of that, while Donal was shocked by what he saw and heard, the undercover team never expected one of their own to become one of Gerald Marie's alleged victims. I didn't want to be a victim, I wanted to be. The journalist

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d this guy, so it was really very traumatic to play the role of a model. Lisa Brinkworth managed to get an invitation to one of Marie's regular dinner parties; night after night, young models from the agency were asked to dine with Marie and her business friends. the conversation at the table was incredibly offensive to these young girls, um very bad language, lots of sexual innuendos, then Gerald Marie turned her attention to Le, just you and me, I know we're going to have a great time and we're going to feel great and then, in front of the table of people who offered to pay Lisa for sex, I still didn't feel afraid, all I thought was that I was watching all this on camera, and you know he's exactly the person we were.

I had been told this was the case and this is all very good evidence for us, but what happened next was not recorded with Lisa's hidden camera accidentally out of the way despite the public setting. Lisa says Gerald unexpectedly and surprisingly took her completely off track. blue, walked up to me, straddled me in my chair, pinned me against the chair, I couldn't move and I could feel that I had an erection and he himself was pushing it, um, into my abdomen and just simulating sex, it was The most horrible thing and I couldn't shake it and I was absolutely terrified.

I thought they were going to rape me and, um, the worst thing about it was that that's what bothers me every time that's where all these men are. I sat there laughing I'm sorry, it's okay I'm sorry, that was almost the worst part no one, no one helped me, um and it was so normal, it was so normal for them, can you tell me what you witnessed regarding their behavior towards Lisa? I saw it Mount Lisa we were in a nightclub brothel and I saw Mount Lisa and I pushed her. I want assault to be included in our program.

Why didn't you want it to be included in the BBC documentary? There was a lot of shit. I felt really embarrassed. um, I didn't tell my family, I didn't tell anyone, I didn't want my parents to see this, I didn't tell anyone, what was your intention in reporting the assault? I wanted to um, but in that room that night I was. I was ordered not to report him at that time because it would shorten our investigation. And in my shock and in my trauma, I stuck with it. How do you now view the order you were given not to report this to the police, given what the subject of your documentary was, yes, I now realize that actually that would have been crucial. um, that should have happened, that should have been reported.

GeraldMarie would later deny the assault, but in 1999 the BBC published her exposé of the fashion industry with Gerald Marie. bad behavior around young models front and center 11:30 11:30 I'll see you at 11:30 bye, global condemnation was damning and Gerald Marie's reign was deemed over, but not for long the industry that 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 success and the power of Glamour, but in 1999 the BBC discovered its seedy side.

The casting of a year-long investigation into the modeling industry. From posing as a fashion photographer, journalist Donal McIntyre soon had his biggest catch in Gerald Marie, my friend from the head of the elite modeling agency in Paris, boasting about his plans to have sex with underage models. . There we are, there were headlines all over 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 it presents a really shocking picture of fashion and fashionable men at the same time. world, the reaction was immediate, the disgraced Gerald Marie was suspended from his job at Elite, the biggest model. agency in the world was an important and precious scalp, it was quite clear that Jo Marie was at the top of the totem pole, she was one of the most powerful and dangerous perpetrators of abuse, that was the accusation, but very quickly Elite took action . attack suing BBC for lying and dishonest editing seeking millions in damages Donal admits producers did questionable editing where a model's comments from two interviews were cut together to make it look like the only interview BB was accused of unethical editing for which he apologized was that a tactic used to paint Gerald Marie in a certain negative light no, I think the specific edits that I think embarrassed the BBC too much did not change the

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, they did not lead anywhere to the

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of what As had initially happened, the BBC decided to fight Elite's legal claim by relying on whistleblower Omar Hau, an Elite executive, to prove that the documentary had revealed the truth.

It changed my life when I decided to tell the BBC the truth. I experienced three of the worst. Years of my life after that Omar Hauch is an intriguing character, a trained concert pianist and a wealthy businessman with a seemingly unbreakable honest streak. He was the target of Ukraine's elite Look of the Year contest, but he was left dismayed by Jal Marr's treatment of young contestants. My first impression of him was that he is a sexual predator. He used to touch the girls. He used to show them that he is the one who decides that if they are nice to him they can have a career and they can also win the contest.

Girl, it's not normal, you're not obligated to sleep with anyone. Did you ever confront Gerald Marie about his behavior? Of course, I confronted Gerald Marie about his behavior several times. I was not afraid. He was like why are you gay. He was. saying that he said no, I'm not gay, you don't like girls, of course you do, yes, but these girls, their families, send it, they send them to us because they trust us as the BBC's star witness. Omar claims that the pressure on him became so personal and threatening that the BBC provided him with bodyguards.

Did Gerald Marie ever threaten you? Gerald Marie treated me twice, once in a restaurant and in Paris and the second time was on the phone when he told me that uh I'm done and uh something like that just to clarify, did Gerald Marie ever threaten your life? Yes, Geral Mar read it in my life. That was very clear to you, very, very clear. Omar Hao says he was alone. I once described what others had also observed or heard from another former Insider Marie P Anderson once the vice president of Chicago's elite left the company in disgust in 1990 was overhearing a heated conversation between two female executives, Gerald Marie and the founder of the late John Casablancas, the Women were trying to protect the youngest of their models.

Now I hear women begging men to stop sleeping with 13 and 14 year old boys and Geral with his Parisian 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 would do it. I was so stunned listening to that conversation that I had to get up and leave and I left Elites because I didn't want to be a part of that organization if this is the culture I have to work within an agency. I don't want to be part of an agency, so I left the corporate boom.

It's like a big no. It was that toxic culture that independent journalists Donald McIntyre and Lisa Brinkworth exposed so widely. in his documentary, but the BBC eventually backed down, apologized for its editing error and signed an agreement not to play the footage again, and in doing so, avoided a potentially massive payout with the deal. Yes, everything continued as usual. After that, the decision to settle was a shock. and treason, so when Elak decided to sue, how do you see the BBC's response? There wasn't a single inaccuracy in the entire documentary, the footage was solid, it was fine, it had some inappropriate and poor editing, acknowledge that, for one thing. nothing that gets to the truth of the investigation at all and you have these predatory males admitting what they have done telling the world this is their culture this is their spirit this is the world they operate in when they look at the young models not The contest He was fired, wasn't he? and was reinstated with the agreement, things calmed down, yes, Gerald Marie got his job back and with it his glamorous life, but now, two decades later, French prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into accusations of rape, child and sexual violation . assault and Marie may not get a second chance, not if former Top Model kotus, her victim and biggest persecutor, gets his way, it's really important in this world that the criminals and rapists you know as sex offenders don't continue to escape only because of their position of power Paris lawyer Anne CLA Leun has a big job ahead of her She carries the hopes of women around the world desperate for justice who have claimed in the face of an active criminal investigation in France they were victims of sexual assault by the ex great modeling agent Gerald Marie can you tell me how many women you represent in this investigation about Geral maray well I am representing 14 women but I have been contacted by a few other women. um, they're not ready to talk yet, how many other women are talking to you? in private I can say more or less uh 12 in addition to the 14 that you are representing yes, you absolutely believe in women, of course you do, of course you do, when you check the deposit, me and the story of every woman you can see, uh. you know the same details, the same moderandi, uh, it's, uh, it's real, we have no doubt about it, while the 1999 BBC documentary exposed the sordid behavior of Gerald Marie, the women who were accused of attacking they were then too terrified to speak, seeing you here today is extraordinary.

They have found his voice and their accusations chillingly mirror each other. They all say they were attacked by Gerald. Six say they were raped. I was 20 years old and had only had one boyfriend before. I was extremely naive and trusted Jill Dodd. It was 40 years. ago and started with Gerald Marie kissing her after a night out with other people. I felt comfortable with him. I didn't know I should be worried and then he kissed me again and then he physically grabbed me and flipped me over on my hands H and I knelt down and he violently raped me from behind and I was screaming for him to stop and no he he he he I couldn't understand it , I couldn't escape, the sudden and unexpected nature of the attack on Jill is something that all of these women describe, shaa yeah.

I can go with you, you were 15 years old. I think when you met Gerald Marie I was flown to Paris for the summer and the agent who met with my family told me there would be a store or apartment of my own 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, teenager Shauna Lee had to attend industry parties almost every night with Gerald and his business friends. At the end of one of those nights, Gerald was He offered to take Shauna to her. apartment instead, he took her to his.

I started yelling at him and telling him that she was going the wrong way and that wasn't the address of my apartment and he just didn't listen and then we got to her apartment. and he just lunged at 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. Someone, I'm sorry, okay, is this really painful to talk about? I just told the model in the apartment and he took me to his office and called my attention to the rape and he said, what are you going to do, go home? and flip burgers was like a horrible and humiliating experience.

I felt so violated and you know, I mean he was older than my dad at the time, I mean, I was 15, he was like 42. I never saw it coming so he rapes you and then threatens you with your career if you dare tell anyone yeah he was basically fine he was laughing at it like he thought it was a joke oh my god first of all thank you shaa for sharing your story because it was the first time. I heard it and it breaks my heart in 1990, the Swedish model EBA cson was 20 years old when she was called into Gerald Marr's office and he pulled out all these handbags with all the beautiful women and some of them were Swedish and he said to me: do you know who is it? women are and I'm like oh yeah of course they're famous and like he said, do you know what they did to make six figures? and while he was doing it, he put his hand under my skirt towards my vagina and it felt like someone had cut off my head because I didn't.

I was so shocked that I froze and walked away and I thought I didn't know what to do, how to react and I left the office and sat outside the office on the street on a bench and cried. EJ Moran's account is surprisingly familiar. I was ordered to attend the dinner and then given a work excuse. They took me back to Gerald's apartment. I didn't want to go to his apartment, um, at all, but. He was my boss once I came up, he basically threw me on the bed and put his hand on my face and held me down and started calling me all kinds of names in a low horrible voice and he violently raped me and was awful.

I knew I couldn't report it. I knew that he had all the power and that I was a foreigner. He was alone. He didn't speak much French. He was in his apartment. um, you know, I knew enough to know that he didn't have. An opportunity on her first night in Paris Paula Thomas was 17 at the time. She was asleep when Gerald Marie, the boss she had not yet met, crept into her apartment in the middle of the night. I woke up and a man was sitting on top of me. The sheets were drawn and I heard him tell me, welcome to Paris, Paula, I'm Geral.

I was in complete shock, obviously. I had just woken up and had never met Gerald before he really stopped. I actually left the room, but at that point I was shaking and didn't really know what to do or what to say. A few weeks later, in another attack, this time in Gerald's office, he pressed himself against me and pushed me against the wall. filing cabinet and he had a boner and basically said if you want to get paid you're going to have to have sex with me and I pushed him away and left the building as fast as I could.

Lori Maren was told that she had a huge future as a model. Did anyone warn you that you can also become prey in this world? No, I walked in wide-eyed and, you know, happy, but Lui, now a Brisbane-based psychologist, felt the full weight of saying no to Gerald. Marie It all happened so fast but he just pushed me through a door into another room onto a bed and he landed on top of me and he was grabbing my breasts and he was pulling up my skirt and then I realized he was big. Problem they were going to rape me so, you know, I started struggling more and more and yelling at him to stop.

Lori says that Gerald was deaf to her, please, but she somehow managed to get away from him and run out of the room in retaliation. Gerald canceled Lor's next three covers for the highly sought after El magazine, a message that her career at the defunct modeling agency was already dead, hung up the phone, hung up and turned to me and said they were canceled and I said what? happens. canceled and he said your trips L and I said well which one and he said all, so, you know, that was like the second, the second hit, you know, it was like there was the attack and then there was, then there was You know, this kind of sabotaging me in my career and was actually the point at which I felt overwhelmed.

Lori went on to have a great career at another agency, but it was a pattern of revenge that Gerald seemed to use on those he rejected. Omar Hao suffered years of false 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 speaking only for onereason first. I want the truth to be known. I want everyone to believe these girls because I saw what was happening and because I want these girls to know that they are not alone: ​​The French investigation was launched in September of last year in response to written accusations made by the women in this story, but Their biggest legal challenge is that the 20-year statute of limitations for filing a complaint in court has expired.

Lawyer CLA Lun, therefore, it is essential that the most recent victims she has spoken to come forward. Well, she has quoted the prosecutor as saying that it is important to investigate so that there are no forgotten victims. That must be very encouraging to her, yes, absolutely, and she already knows it. We need all victims to come forward. It is very difficult to convince them to talk. No charges can be filed against Gerald Marie due to the time that has passed. These women will be considered vital witnesses in the current criminal investigation, but. Their determination to take on one of the most powerful players in the industry and demand industry-wide change cannot be understated.

For you to take personally the testimonies of these women, what it has been like for you to see them come together like this and put their names down. and their faces in this fight for justice are very brave, it is an incredible job and I know it is not easy, but yes, it is thanks to her that we can condemn people. They are heroes for you, yes, they are heroes, absolutely , we established the word and now this never-before-seen videotape, I mean, I was trying to get him away. I couldn't, it could be the legal breakthrough that could change everything and he had an erection that he was pushing. inside me and pushing and it was absolutely horrible the moment he was in shock.

I came back here because Absolut was breached. um, just B. I didn't want to, but I burst into tears. A professional on this material has never been seen before. Lisa Brinkworth made this recording in the moments immediately after saying that she was sexually assaulted in 1999, but suddenly he came over and was on top of me, straddled me, pushed himself up, and pinned me against the Chan. Lisa alleges that her attacker was BigTime modeling agent Gerald Marie, who didn't know she was an undercover freelance journalist posing as a model, was absolutely horrible, it was a different experience for R.

Lisa was investigating Marie for a BBC documentary after the models tipped him off that he was A serial sexual abuser never expected to be one of his alleged victims nor did he expect to see this tape buried again as it was by the BBC. The BBC locked up the footage when it settled a Lial lawsuit brought by the elite modeling agency. What really shocked him was that there was a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old at the table. Incredibly, the tape resurfaced when the BBC inadvertently handed it over to another journalist in early 2019, so it wasn't a complete surprise to me to hear a A Woman I've Never Met didn't know just by telling me what she'd just told me. witness on this tape.

The shock was compounded by the fact that, despite many requests, the BBC will not give Lisa the tape citing legal reasons and refuses to release it without her. signing a gag order on that tape immediately after the assault is absolutely crucial evidence: we got insight from a confidential source and, according to lawyer An Clair Leun, the tape could be the turning point in the case against Gerald Marie because has been hidden for While Lisa was denied the opportunity to use it as evidence of Marie's alleged assault before the statute of limitations was reached, it is expected that because of that missed opportunity the legal time limit cannot apply to Lisa if the prosecutor and the courts can be convinced that the statute limitations need to be paused in Lisa's case, what effect does that have on her case?

It means Jal Mari could be officially charged with sexual assault so that will be a big win of course Lisa BR brr could probably get justice and that means more than Since before, the legal network seems to be closing in on Gerald Marie at 70 years. Gerald lives on the Spanish island of AA, the holiday destination of the rich and famous. It is here that he has a luxurious house on top of a cliff and has lunch away from the current French investigation. He lives on the beach most days and lives a luxurious life built on the lucrative modeling industry, he remains a very active businessman and enjoys great wealth and the fruits of his trade and, until very recently , is still actively involved in the fashion industry. the disappointment of the undercover documentary team Donal McIntyre and Lisa Brinkworth Gerald Marie continued working for the European elite until 2011 and then model Management until a year ago when she shamed him.

I mean, from what I could understand he is still working with models all these years. Gerald Marie has always denied all allegations of sexual assault and rape and was vindicated when the BBC backtracked and settled Lial's claim brought against them by Elite, but the allegations don't go away. I saw how the girls came in and slept with him. and then middle aged men walked by, everyone could see what he was doing, everyone could see that he was abusing his power with former model kotas, who says Marie raped her several times when she was 17, represents the worst of the industry , what has been normalized is horrible and at this point you know we say it's like the wild west, you know the modeling industry is not regulated at all even though we have decades of accusations and decades of complaints and it's time for A group arises and people want to tell it. their stories and want real and lasting change our repeated requests for an interview with Gerald have been ignored agreeing to bring the allegations directly to Gerald on our behalf and unrestricted by Co ah travel bans Mr Marie Donald McIntyre 60

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Australia Donald McIntyre traveled to another to confront the man he hasn't seen in 20 years thank you very much or we will call the police Mr.

Marie call the police Do you realize that French prosecutors have 14 women accusing him of sexual assault and battery Mr. Marie six women are accusing you of rape do you have something to say it seems that Gerald Marie does not remember Donal and is not bothered in the least by the accusations against him nor by the French criminal investigation it is enough it is not enough it is enough say this say this to the women who claims he was raped and sexually assaulted, this is not a problem for you, please leave us alone, he even feels compelled to make fun of McIntyre for what he is dressed as the priest, but he does not know Mr.

Marie, he is not Time to joke, this is not like that. It's a laughing matter, leave him completely unfazed. Gerald continues eating and mocking. Have a beautiful day, enjoy, beautiful night. Hallelujah and us, you have nothing better to do, but Gerald Marie may not so easily ignore the women he is accused of hurting, they plan to travel. allowing Paris to give her testimony in person to the prosecutor so the investigation can move forward. They believe there are others who should do the same. All of his stories have been incredibly convincing, and yet Gerald Marie continues to say that he harassed or raped her. either they hurt you or they ended your careers you know he denies it he says it's rubbish um what do you say we'll see about that we'll see about that we're not 17 anymore we're not kids anymore We're adults and we know what happened to us so we'll see each other in court.

I understand how scary it is to show up. We are stronger in numbers and there are other women who are available to support the women who come forward. the first time, so I think anything is possible. I don't think this show is over. Hi, I'm Tara Brown, thanks for watching 60 Minutes Australia. Subscribe to our channel now to receive new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss out. in our Bonus Minutes segments and full episodes of 60 Minutes on ow.com Au and the N9 Now app