Modeling Agencies At War!
This is getting ugly.
Modeling agencies including Next, Ford, Click and Wilhelmina are getting lawsuit happy for allegedly poaching models from their competition.
Agencies are also suing their former clients for breach of contract.
So why is this happening?
The recession of course!
Suzie Sugerman, who has booked models in the past, explains:
"It's become more problematic if a girl goes to a big agency. Because of the recession, girls aren't working the way they used to."
However, PR maven Kelly Cutrone says agencies shouldn't be getting all the blame. She told the NY Post:
"I'm less sure that the agencies are poaching than the girls are moving. You don't see CAA crying all the time if they lose an actor to William Morris. It's free enterprise. Contracts don't mean s- - -. They're semi-binding agreements for people who have the money to go to court. No one wants any of these cases to get in front of a jury. It's a game — time-out the other person and drain all their money."
She makes an excellent point, but we have a feeling this whole "poaching" scandal won't be coming to an end anytime soon.
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