moar on model management and connections
Another model management company has a two suspicious connections to trafficking etc, Ford Models . Katie Ford, CEO of Ford Models thru 2007, took over management in 1995, and was married to Standard hotel owner, Andre Balazs, from 1985 to 2004. They divorced 2004. Then, around 2007, Ford becomes involved w Freedom from Slavery organization and against human trafficking. Also involved w UN. Reminds me of Silsbury and Haiti, but dont know. The Ford Foundation also supports Democracy Now
Ford,s ex- husband, Andre Balazs is different. Blazs has masters in journalism and business from Columbia. Balazs parents were doctors, Drs. Endre and Eva Balazs. Balazs and father formed and sold Biomatrix, which had hyalauron products to Genzyme for 738 million. Then, he got into commercial developmentHis father was an eye doctor w some significant contribution in the field of opthamology, but the mom is interesting. His mother was a psychiatrist for McClean Hospital, near Cambridge, Mass. McClean Hospital, aka Somerville Asylum, maintains the worlds largest neuroscientific and psychiatric research program and is largest facility of Harvard Medical School and an affiliiate of Massachusettes General Hospital.
As hotelier, he owns several Standard hotels, other boutique hotels, including famed Chateau Marmon, purchased renovated 1990. Recently, Balazs left standard hotel la, ? 2017, focusing on his other hotels, after ski accident and sexual assault charges by Jason batemans wife in 2014.