“This story is in line with a story I was told a decade ago minus the specific perpetrators which weren’t mentioned. It was an over all telling of exactly this sort of thing happening very commonly in this industry from a friend who modeled in NY etc around the same time period. This was his personal experience too. As I’m listening the stories immediately rang true and the sordid underbelly to the world of high fashion is exactly the description I was given. My heart goes out to these men who were simply trying to make their way in the world and the way they were used, abused, controlled, silenced and then discarded and broken by these predatory power monsters is not just horrific but organized serial criminal behavior on corporate level. It makes me wonder how many other stories we will never hear due to suicide or other unnatural death events that are not obviously linked to this abuse yet. This is Epstein level sexual abuse and I think it’s time we start thinking about the well being of the children/women/men we are seeing everyday on billboards and in fashion spreads in order to sell us cloth and rare materials. They need a union and a support system. Youth + Power + Extreme Wealth = Sexual Exploitation in almost every scenario where it exists.”
Hagstoz via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/17/23