Mr. Brunel has faced accusations of abuse himself: 3 former versions advised The Guardian final yr that he sexually assaulted them in the 1980s and 1990s in and about Paris. He has denied the allegations.
Ms. Le Jeune, the attorney representing the females who declare they have been assaulted by Mr. Marie, is also representing individuals accusing Mr. Brunel. She welcomed Monday’s announcement by the Paris prosecutors as an “encouraging 1st phase,” however she acknowledged she was not certain it would outcome in prosecution.
Ms. Brinkworth is asking that her filing be accepted as a formal complaint, regardless of the passage of additional than two decades, primarily based on an outdated video. She contends it can make a direct reference to her assault by Mr. Marie, who left Elite in 2011, however the specifics of the video continue to be unclear.
Just after the episode, she was bound by a confidentiality agreement with the BBC and Elite, and so she considered she would never ever have accessibility to the video, but a further journalist has not long ago acquired accessibility to it, Ms. Le Jeune explained.
“Access to the proof is for that reason doable,” she explained.
The French modeling market 1st came below scrutiny in the 1980s in 1988, as portion of a “60 Minutes” system, Diane Sawyer interviewed a variety of younger versions in Paris who accused Mr. Brunel and associates of drugging and raping them. Their accounts did not outcome in a formal investigation.
Mr. Marie, a former husband of the supermodel Linda Evangelista, has also previously faced allegations of sexual impropriety and exploitation, an knowledge a lot of younger versions when felt to be inevitable if they have been to advance in their careers.
In 2011, Ms. Sutton, a former Calvin Klein model who worked below her maiden identify, Carré Otis, published a memoir named “Beauty, Disrupted.” In it, she alleged in detail that Mr. Marie raped her when she was 17 and he was her agent. She was renting a area in his property in Paris at the time.