NEW YORK – The runner-up in a U.S.-wide modelling competition won by Canada’s Jessica Stam says the contest was fixed and that the talent agency promoting it stiffed her out of her “guaranteed” second-place prize.
Former aspiring model Caitlin Williams claims in a US$1.5-million lawsuit against New York Model Management that the agency had “chosen ? [...]

FASHION photographer Markus Klinko has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against a romantic rival who allegedly called him “a lunatic” who’s “on the brinko.” In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Klinko says he suffered “public ridicule, contempt, scorn [and] disgrace” from the comments Rock & Republic CEO Michael Ball gave to fashion-trade magazine [...]

Hotshot fashion lensman Markus Klinko is taking on embattled Rock & Republic Founder/CEO Michael Ball yet again, suing him for libel after Ball called him “a lunatic” and “a scary guy” in a magazine interview — and this time he’s demanding a whopping $50 million!
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In New York’s war on animal abuse, some of the worst offenders are pursued by a group of tattooed motorcycle-riding tough guys on a mission to save animals in danger.  They call themselves Rescue Ink, and these are their stories.
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