Sara Ziff, founder of Model Alliance, said business leaders need to be hauled before House oversight committee
A top modeling industry activist has called for business leaders to be hauled before lawmakers in Washington to investigate what role modeling agencies may have played in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal.
Sara Ziff is founder of the Model Alliance, a non-profit advocacy group calling for fair treatment, labor rights and safe working conditions for fashion industry workers.
“I’d like to see a proper investigation into how modeling agencies facilitated Epstein’s abuse,” she told the Guardian in an interview, adding that bringing the heads of the companies before the oversight committee is “totally appropriate”.
Ziff and more than 40 Epstein survivors have signed a letter sent to Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to ask for an inquiry into the issue. They say the number of people in the model business – agents, owners, scouts – whose names have come up in Epstein document releases and through witness testimony “point to more than a single predator operating in isolation”.
