This is the Guardian.

Today, how the fashion industry hid allegations of sexual assault for decades.

Before we start a warning that we discuss rape and mentioned suicide in this episode.

It was October 2020 and Lucy Osborne, a reporter with the Guardian, had just got an email

from someone she wasn't expecting.

Hi, Marianne. Can you hear me?

Yes, I hear you sign. Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can.

Marianne Schein had worked as a model in the 1980s.

I worked in a model agency called Legends and Manigan.

She'd just been reading Lucy's article in which eight women alleged they'd been sexually assaulted or raped

by the French modeling boss Gerald Marie while they were signed to his agency.

Allegations Marie has categorically denied.

When Marianne read about their experiences, it brought back painful memories of what happened to her in Paris.

It was 1986, but certain events in one's life doesn't matter when it happens.

You can just see there vividly in your mind.

Marianne then spoke to Lucy on the phone.

You're here, your article came out and I'm like, all right, look at this, straight telling people.

And for the first time, she said she was ready to tell a journalist that she had been sexually assaulted too.

By another leading fashion agent, a man called Jean-Luc Brunel.

At the time, I wondered if you knew that it was happening to other girls as well.

No, absolutely didn't at all.

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