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@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Notice anything about Mc2?
Miami Florida and look at that Tel Aviv Israel.
You just connected Epstein to Israel.
It gets better tho.
Who in Israel needed to oust Epstein. Could that be Bibi? Poor Barak getting his picture taken.
What other agency has the same practices?

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Lets dig into Elite models next. You might find they have many things in common. Besides Epstein.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Casablancas opened Elite Model Management in 1972 with a roster of all-star talent, cementing his reputation as a top tier agency. But within its first year, 2 of his top models were dead. The first was Paula Brenken, who mysteriously dove out a window in a drunken state....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 the night after she told friends she had been raped by a photographer. The next to die was Emmanuel Dano, who became hooked on drugs soon after signing with Elite. 
According to Casablancas, she was out for a late night drive with several male friends when they attempted to rape

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 her, and fell out of the moving car while trying to fight off her attackers. He said she died instantly. This story raised quite a few eyebrows, in part because it was John Casablancaswho discovered her body- lying in her own bed. In both cases there was little police....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 investigation, despite the suspicious circumstances of these deaths-and the fact that the only explanation came from Casablancas.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 John Casablancas, a marketing genius, would somehow be able to use those high profile tragediesas good publicity-his agency became the object of fascination, and stories of his models’ exploits became legendary. People in the fashion industry, the media, and the public became....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 obsessed with following their every move, and Casablancas learned the benefits of courting controversy, and using media coverage as a marketing tool. In 1977 Casablancasmoved his agency headquarters to New York, and set about stealing as many Ford girls as he could.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Ford struck back, hitting him with a lawsuit for unlawful business practices and beginning a long running legal battle that would become known as “The Model Wars”. For Casablancas, this only solidified his resolve-he would not only take Ford’s girls, he would make them successful

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 beyond their wildest dreams and he would become the number one agency in the world.
Trump and Casablancas would cross paths at some point during the 70’s-most likely through Roy Cohn,who was involved in the suit between Elite and Ford-and they would form adecades long friendship

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 & later a formal partnership that would end up influencing many of his future career choices and inform his style of interacting with the media. Casablancas’ influence on Trump is obvious when reading about both, it portends quite a bit, but has been largely forgotten by history.

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@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 John Casablancas enjoyed continued success throughout most of the 1980’s, building the largest and most profitable modeling agency in the world. But beneath the glitz and glamour of his supermodels and lifestyle lurked a much darker reality. Once his agency was established,

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Casablancas embarked on creating a kind of hierarchy-a multi-tiered system that his prospects would have to navigate in order to be signed. Casablancas would ultimately turn over the day to day control of his agency to his business partner, and focus most of his time and energy..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 on his “New Faces” division, meeting dozens of aspiring models a day in the comfort of his corner away from prying eyes.

It was in this private setting that Casablancas began the tradition of weighing and measuring girls, which soon became widespread throughout the industry.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 It was a practice that served the dual purpose of allowing agencies to closely monitor any weight gain, and created a pretense for agents to meet with young models alone in their offices, and require them to strip nude. The tier system incentivized doing whatever it took to....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 get to “the top”-a perch which 99% of the young girls scouted and brought before Casablancas would never reach-there were only a handful of models who could wake up for nothing less than $10,000 a day, after all. But the possibility was tantalizing, and Casablancas was a skilled

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 groomer who lavished every one of his models with attention&made them feel like they had the potential to reach the top. This created a power dynamic that had previously not existed. Models understood that he could make you a star. It was also understood that he ruin you.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 The system worked for a while, but it was foiled by the fact that the playboys-in particular John Casablancas- were used to living by a different set of rules, and never being held accountable. None of these men were shy about their behavior, and the fact that they were bedding..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 models as young as 12 on a routine basis was well known. But in the 1980’s the cultural tides started to turn against them. With increased awareness of child sexual abuse-both its alarming prevalence and it’s devastating effect on victims- attitudes began to change, and the...

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 public became less tolerant of famous men and their dalliances with children. And soon enough John Casablancas and his fellow playboys would find themselves embroiled in increasingly distasteful scandals involving underage girls.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 In 1984, John Casablancas met then 14-year old Stephanie Seymour at his newly launched “look of the year” contest for Elite. Casablancas selected Seymour as the local winner, but declared her a bit too undeveloped for his personal tastes (“if I looked at anyone with interest, it

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 was her mom!” he said) and she was shipped back off to Florida to start her sophomore year in high school. Throughout the year, Seymour, continued to write to Casablancas (“the kid was delightful” he said of her correspondence, “she would send little letters and when you opened..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 the letter, little silver stars would fall out”) and Casablancas responded to her correspondence personally, urging her to come back to New York and join his agency once school let out. At the end of her sophomore year she did just that, and by this time she was finally up to...

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 His exhausting standards.“By that time her body was extraordinary-she was long and thin and the shapes were where they had to be-and her face was gorgeous, with this innocent little-child voice” he said in an interview,....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 explaining his lust over a girl young enough to be his grandchild.
On the night of her 16th birthday, Casablancas threw Stephanie Seymour a party at a cocaine-fueled nightclub in Milan, gave her a goblet of milk and plate of cookies. One week later, he would move in with her.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Casablancas affinity for very young girls was not a secret-in fact it was legendary within the fashion industry and the social scene in New York City long before it became public knowledge.  “I really, really have a bit of Pygmalion syndrome” he admitted in an interview, before..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 discussing how he encouraged one of his  17 year old “new face” girls to lose weight by telling her that he was “really, really turned off” by her body (The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon whereby higher expectations lead to an increase in performance.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 The effect is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved)
By the time “New York Magazine” did a front page profile of him in 1988, Casablancas reputation for bedding young models was established and begrudgingly accepted...

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 (a price to pay in exchange for his “genius”) within the New York social scene, but the expose came as a shock to many outside the bubble. John Casablancas would soon find out that he was not as untouchable as he thought he was.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 In the article-which ran under the title “Girl Crazy”-Casablancas was portrayed as a champagne guzzling pervert, singularly dedicated to the “new look” department of Elite where he spent his days ogling the scantily clad, sometimes naked bodies of teenage girls.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 He talked about his seventeen year old daughter, Cecile. He said Cecile had been solicited by a photographer last summer on a beach in Ibiza.The photographer asked her to pose in a bikini, and he raced over to try to get a $2,000 fee for the shot.....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 “She’s got a great little body” he told his models.
Girl Crazy”- marked the beginning of John Casablancas downfall. The article became a huge scandal that reverberated far beyond the modeling industry and into the mainstream press. It was especially visible in New York City,....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 where Elite had it’s headquarters and where Casablancas lived and was an active part of the social scene.
But the scandal did not end there, nor did it begin. Less than a month earlier 60 minutes aired a prime-time special on the abuses of underage girls in the modeling industry.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 Investigative reporter Craig Pyes portrayed the modeling industry as infested with agents who were notorious hustlers and playboys. His report revealed that both Claude Haddad- the head of European scouting for Ford- and Ford’s Paris-based agent Jean-Luc Brunel had been accused..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 of horrific sexual misconduct by many models. The special aired the interviews of dozens of women who accused both Brunel and Haddad of a litany of crimes, ranging from racist invective towards black models to violent rape. And in fact the hidden camera footage captured in....

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 filming the special caught it all- from Xavier lamenting about n**er models, to Haddad chuckling about drugging and raping 13 year old girls. According to Model At a retreat soon after the one-two punch delivered by the coverage, Haddad, Jean Luc Brunel and Casablancas were once

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 again overheard (albeit not taped this time around) laughing about their crimes. Alternatively they were angry when confronted by interim scouting manager Trudi Tapscott-”I’m a man and I have needs, I will not apologize for that!” Casablancas is said to have declared.

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 There was, to be fair, fallout from these reports. Brunel and Haddad were condemned by Eileen Ford, and Casablancas never fully regained his public reputation. But the public and the insular world of fashion are very different animals, and within the latter the only repercussions

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 any of the men faced was in retribution for airing the industries dirty laundry with their sloppiness. Haddad and Brunel kept their jobs, albeit not in an official capacity. And while Casablancas was removed from his official role as head of the “New Faces” division of Elite, ...

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 where he had unrestrained access and influence over the youngest and most impressionable girls represented by his agency, he didn’t go very far. His unofficial capacity was far-reaching, and his behaviors were explained away by his replacements. One of the agents taking his place

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 was Trudi Tapscott-the same woman who had tried unsuccessfully to confront John after his forced retirement. While initially she was furious at Casablancas, less than a year later she had softened her stance. Quoted in Model, she stated ”People in this business use their power to

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 manipulate people in ways that are unfair”. But she nonetheless told the many parents who were concerned about Casablancas-who still retained an unofficial role in the division-that he was not a manipulator. “My answer is that no one ever did anything they didn’t want to” she..

@TheSharpEdge1 @AARNO_XXII @TheSpeaker2018 stated. “I’m amazed how these girls act in certain situations. They knew more about making passes [at men] than I ever knew.

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