Six women have filed civil complaints against Elite Model Management’s former president Gérald Marie, alleging rape and human trafficking at the Paris Judicial Court. But an attorney for Marie said on Friday he “firmly denies” the allegations.
Marie, who exited Elite years ago, is also facing a civil complaint that was filed last month by the model Carré Otis. In recent years, she has accused Marie of rape and human trafficking that allegedly occurred when she was starting out as a model at the age of 17. Otis along with 14 other women had initially filed complaints against Marie in Paris in 2020, which were later dismissed by the Paris prosecutor’s office due to the statute of limitations having run out.
Asked about the six new civil complaints, Marie’s attorney Céline Bekerman said in a statement Friday, “My client firmly denies these allegations, as he has consistently done. There is nothing new in these complaints. A thorough investigation conducted by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office was already carried out and resulted in the case being dismissed in 2023.”
Mathias Darmon, the attorney who is representing the six women, said Friday, “These complaints are part of a broader movement of speaking out, sparked by the formal complaint filed by Carré Otis on June 5, 2026. Gérald Marie potentially raped dozens of young women between the 1980s and the 2000s, acting with a sense of total impunity and within an utterly intolerable culture of rape. Today, voices are finally being raised to denounce these heinous crimes.”
