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FM123

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1. Would not be surprised if it was more than just retaliation by an ex.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:26 PM
Monday

Found an article in Medium magazine that came out a few months ago about the whole "modeling business".

Forget Epstein. Forget even Maxwell. If you want to understand how elite sex trafficking truly operated — not as a scandal but as a system — you start with the modeling agencies.

In the late 20th century, John Casablancas (founder of Elite Model Management) built the original model: turn teenage girls into glamorized assets. Jean-Luc Brunel took it international, founding MC2 and receiving at least $1 million from Jeffrey Epstein to expand operations. Paolo Zampolli cornered the visa angle, using U.S. immigration loopholes to bring in young foreign models — often from Eastern Europe and South America — under false pretenses.

Then came Mister Donald Trump.


https://thegoodage.medium.com/modeling-was-the-machine-epstein-was-just-the-middleman-3b5f37e1e49f



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