Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year | March 2020
In the early 90s, Trump judged the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse.
How the people who were there remember it
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In the early 90s, Trump judged the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse.
How the people who were there remember it
#MOG theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
#ShawnaLee, a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were ENCOURAGED TO PARADE downstairs, one by one, and DANCE for TRUMP...
Lee, an introverted teenager who loved to draw but hated school, was in New York for the first time.
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Lee, an introverted teenager who loved to draw but hated school, was in New York for the first time.
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Another contestant, 15 at the time, remembers being asked to walk for Trump, and others on the boat in September 1992
An organiser told her that if she refused, she would be excluded from the competition. “I knew in my gut it wasn’t right... it was for their entertainment.”
An organiser told her that if she refused, she would be excluded from the competition. “I knew in my gut it wasn’t right... it was for their entertainment.”
The #Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape.
