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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump Model Management, later shortened to T Management, was a New York City-based modeling agency founded by Donald Trump as T Models in 1999. It was closed by Trump in April 2017, shortly after he became U.S. president.

This is the only thing I can find where he took his name off something. Wonder why.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, its wikipedia page is crazy, Melania was one of those models:

In July 2015, it was reported that Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC combined had requested US visas for almost 250 international fashion models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Model_Management

Alexia Palmer’s contract with Trump Model Management was from January 2011 to May 2014, which required her to come to the U.S. from her home country Jamaica and work as a model on contracts arranged by the agency. Palmer said she was paid only $3,880 from 2011 to 2013 and that 80% of her wages were taken away from her as “expenses.” She accepted that she had agreed to pay for “certain expenses and permits” based on a separate contract she later signed as “Trump Model’s Loan Agreement.” Palmer also argued that she was not even paid the “prevailing wage” for models, which she claims is $45,490 a year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2016/03/23/federal-judge-dismisses-case-brought-by-jamaican-model-against-trumps-modeling-agency/

I've never seen this take before:

The pattern is clear when you look at the broader network. All four men attended the same modeling contests, judged the same competitions, and hosted private events with teenage contestants. They traded girls across state and international borders using legitimate business infrastructure. Giuffre testified that Epstein bragged about sleeping with “over 1,000 Brunel girls,” while multiple witnesses described how Brunel would “farm out” models to Epstein and other associates.

Everyone’s been obsessing over sealed documents while ignoring the unsealed ones. The modeling industry provided perfect cover for this network because it had legitimate business fronts. But the pattern of exploitation – recruiting vulnerable young girls with promises of fame, trapping them through visa violations and debt, providing access to wealthy men – was consistent across Elite, MC2, and Trump Model Management. Desperate teenage girls from poor backgrounds would do anything for a chance at modeling success, and these men systematically abused that desperation.

While everyone chases phantom client lists, the documented evidence of his participation in this network sits in court filings, victim testimony, and public records. The cover-up isn’t happening in some government vault – it’s happening every time we pretend this evidence doesn’t exist.

https://rachelandthecity.com/who-needs-the-epstein-files-trumps-modeling-agency-was-a-documented-trafficking-operation/