Gérald Marie

Gérald Marie is a French former model agency boss, who headed Elite Model Management in Paris and was among the most powerful figures in the fashion industry. He was accused by several women of committing rape and sexual assault during the 1980s and 1990s. He denied the allegations and prosecutors closed the investigation in February 2023 due to the statute of limitations. Marie resigned from Elite in 1999. On the same day as his resignation, Elite’s chairman, John Casablancas, issued an “unconditional apology” to models and their families for the “shocking, unacceptable and totally incorrect” behavior of some agency executives.