‘I found out because I saw him doing it with other women. ‘He had paid my agency $50,000 to bring me to that party. ‘I became involved with him but I found out about a year into our relationship that he had purchased an introduction,’ she went on to reveal. He reminded me of my friend’s dad at a wedding. Weeks later, her booker at Elite reportedly invited her to another party, in Monte Carlo, where she met Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, who was at that time the richest man in the world.ĭodd recalled: ‘He and I started dancing. ‘Then several weeks after that, one night, he raped me,’ she recalled So I refused to go to any more parties.’Īt the time, Marie reportedly told her that she no longer had to attend those parties, nor did she have to go on any more interviews for prospective gigs. There, she said, ‘I figured out that these men wanted to sexually harass us or rape us. Pictured is an undated image of Sutton around that time Then a 17-year-old aspiring model, Sutton says she was subject to repeated sexual abuse and was plied with a constant stream of cocaine to stay thin. I don’t think any of us had it easy.’ĭodd, meanwhile, now 62, also says she was also raped by Marie around that time – when she was a 20-year-old aspiring model for Elite in Paris in the 1980s.ĭodd recalled to The Sun: ‘I was sent to parties at rich men’s houses that models were required to attend.’ Look how young she was and look who she was dating. She said the abuse would occur when Linda, who was also signed to Elite and moved from New York to Paris, was out of town.Ĭarré, who has seen a flood of support from former and current models after airing her accusations last Fall, including from Evangelista, told the outlet that she did not think Evangelista was aware of the abuse. Pictured are the couple in New York City in 1991 She cited how she was still just 17 when the alleged abuse occurred, and that she was ‘ dependent on him for food, money, shelter, he held my passport.’Īt the time, Marie was dating Canadian supermodel Lindal Evangelista, 57 – with Sutton claiming in an ongoing lawsuit against her ex-employer, filed last year, that several of the assaults took place in the Paris apartment the mogul shared with the model. She added: ‘I was in a particularly vulnerable situation… he held all the power and I was not in the position to fight back metaphorically and realistically.’ ‘I thought it meant that something good was finally going to happen, so I really had no idea what I was walking into.’ I thought it meant that I was the chosen one,’ Sutton said. ‘Being as naive and as vulnerable as I was, I thought going to stay in this apartment of the boss was a good thing. The alleged abuse is detailed in an upcoming documentary series, Scouting For Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret, airing on Sky on Friday.Īhead of the documentary, Carré – along with two other survivors, fellow American models Jill Dodd and Marianne Shine – recounted to The Sun the alleged abuse. Marie allegedly ‘trafficked’ Sutton – and other women – ‘to other wealthy men around Europe, where he was reportedly known as the ‘Harvey Weinstein of the fashion industry’ across young models in the 80s and 90s. There, then 17, Sutton says she was subject to repeated sexual abuse and was plied with a constant stream of cocaine to stay thin. Starting out with Elite in New York, Sutton was personally flown out to Paris by Marie mere months after signing with the agency, where she stayed with Marie in his multimillion-dollar apartment.

One of at least 13 former models accusing Marie of rape, 53-year-old American model Carré Sutton says she was repeatedly assaulted by the model boss in 1985, when she was 16Īt the time, Marie was dating Canadian supermodel Evangelista, 57 – with Sutton claiming in an ongoing lawsuit against her ex-employer, filed last year, that several of the assaults took place in the Paris apartment the mogul shared with the model.

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