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Model Alliance Calls For Inquiry Into How Agencies ‘Facilitated Epstein’s Abuse’

The group’s founder, Sara Ziff, and more than 40 Epstein survivors have signed a letter to US officials, pressing them to investigate the role modelling agencies may have played in sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein.
Sara Ziff
Sara Ziff was represented by Next Management, whose founder was revealed by The Guardian to be a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein. (Katharina Poblotzki)

A top modelling industry activist has called for business leaders to be hauled before lawmakers in Washington to investigate what role modelling agencies may have played in the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal.

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