Ex-Supermodel Carré Otis: Teen Models ‘Devirginised’ by Elite Model Management Executives Gérald Marie & John Casablancas

Carré Sutton, states that in 1986, when she was 17, she was sexually assaulted regularly by Gérald Marie, Elite Model Management’s former European chief. Also named in the suit is her booking agent at the time, Trudi Tapscott, who would later work at Vogue before founding her own agency, the Model Coaches, in New York in 2018.

From the August 12 complaint:

[quote]In particular, Casablancas had an affinity for young models—a “woman-child” as he was prone to say. Casablancas infamously said that models who were virgins did not photograph the same as sexually experienced models. To be a successful model and appeal to and understand the image of sensuality, according to Casablancas, virgin models had to be “broken in” by Elite executives and “devirginized.”

[quote]Casablancas’s most well-known sexual exploit with a child model involved what he called an “affair” with model Stephanie Seymour. When Casablancas’s wife filed for divorce, he announced that he was dating the then 16-year-old child model. In reality, he was committing statutory rape that had actually started when Seymour was 14 years old. Casablancas would groom Seymour by bringing milk and cookies to Seymour’s model apartment at night which was conveniently located on the other side of the wall from his