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No More Model ‘Abuse’ and ‘Exploitation’: SAG-AFTRA and WGA Throw Support Behind Fashion Workers Act (EXCLUSIVE)
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are supporting an act supporting models and fashion workers.
After waging their own historic labor battles with the studios last year, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are throwing their weight behind the Fashion Workers Act, which addresses the modeling industry’s exploitative working conditions and is making its way through New York state’s legislature. “My agency dictated my life: cramming nine girls into a tiny two-bedroom apartment, considering anything I borrowed an advance with an additional 5% interest added, and cutting me off from the possibility of earning money because they told me I needed to lose weight.” Ziff, who used New York’s Adult Survivors Act lookback window to file a lawsuit against former Miramax/Disney executive and Weinstein pal Fabrizio Lombardo, models suffer “behind a veil of glamor and prestige.”
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