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Ex-model wants $1.5M for flopped career

A former aspiring model is suing a top New York talent agency for spoiling her dreams of runway riches by allegedly stiffing her out of a "guaranteed" pageant prize. Caitlin Williams filed a $1.5 million lawsuit yesterday against New York Model Management, charging that the firm - which touts supermodel Elle Macpherson as a client - ripped her ...
Posted on December 3 2009 Keep Reading...

National Post – Canada / Modelling competition fixed, runner-up says

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 ? ...
Posted on November 30 2009 Keep Reading...

NY Post – Page 6 – “PHOTOG SUES OVER ‘LUNATIC’ JIBE”

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 ...
Posted on November 30 2009 Keep Reading...

TMZ / – Fashion Photog Klinko Sues Jeans Exec for $50 Mil

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! Read more:
Posted on November 30 2009 Keep Reading...

NatGeo airs new TV show “Rescue Ink Unleashed”

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. Read more:
Posted on November 30 2009 Keep Reading...