Seven models who recently left Women - Behati Prinsloo Levine (Adam Levine’s wife), Anna Ewers, Giedre Dukauskaite, Alexina Graham, Ophelie Guillermand, Alana Zimmer and Alicia Burke - already signed with Elite. The managers represented “almost all” the models at Women, which books about $22 million annually.
It alleges that Elite has “engaged in a series of unlawful and deceitful actions aimed at stealing its rival’s business,” specifically between March and July of this year, when 16 model managers and 55 models left Women Management. Model Management is suing several of its former employees and Elite Model Management for breach of contract for allegedly launching a “conspiracy designed to destroy” the agency “by unlawfully raiding its employees and models,” according to a complaint filed Tuesday in New York state court. A top modeling management company is suing another over a mass “conspiracy” to poach managers and models.
