(from left) Swedish former Elite model Ebba Karlsson, French lawyer Anne-Claire Le Jeune and ex-BBC journalist Lisa Brinkworth. Photo: AFP
After keeping silent for years, more than a dozen women hope their harrowing testimonies will spur prosecutors to pursue a pillar of the French fashion industry, accused of abusing young models with widely known impunity over dozens of years.
"It's haunted me for 20 years," Lisa Brinkworth, a former BBC journalist, told AFP of her encounter with Gerald Marie, the former Europe chief of the Elite modelling agency, and its fallout.
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