The bill, which wouldn’t exist without the models and survivors who advocated for it endlessly, aims to protect fashion workers from exploitation.
“Often, these teenage girls who are trying to be models are thousands of dollars in debt, and the only way they can eat or afford to do anything is to go to these dinners with businessmen,” says Sara Ziff, founder and executive director of the Model Alliance.
“It is no coincidence that Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby, Peter Nygaard solicited girls through model management agencies,” Ziff said, adding that agencies sometimes arrange these meetings themselves, “which are sort of presented as a business opportunity, but ended up being something very different.
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