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| | "Come with Me to Casablancas" - TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The parvenu, John Casablancas, had owned the biggest model agency in Paris and for years enjoyed an uneasy working relationship with "Godmother" Eileen Ford, trading les girls between continents as occasion and opportunity demanded. |
 | | More significantly, Eileen, 58, and her partner-husband Jerry, 55, filed a $7.5 million suit against Casablancas' Elite Model Management Corp. and his four Parisian partners for "violation of fiduciary trust." The second largest agency in the U.S., Wilhelmina Models Inc., sued Casablancas for $4 million. |
 | | Casablancas has also suffered battlefield defeats, most notably the loss of Esme Marshall, 19, fresh-faced cover girl who pioneered the bobbed look. |
| www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,949003,00.html (645 words) |
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