Kendall Jenner sued for $ 1.8 million for alleged breach of modeling contract

Top model Kendall Jenner has been sued by Italian fashion house Liu Jo for alleged breach of contract.

According to legal documents obtained by Fox Business, Liu Jo sued the 25-year-old model, Elite World Group, LLC, and The Society Model Management, Inc. for $ 1.8 million.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York, Liu Jo seeks compensation for damages from Jenner, who the fashion house says ignored a modeling deal signed in 2019.

Liu Jo claims the contract stipulated Jenner would star in two photo shoots for the Italian fashion company. The first was for its Spring / Summer 2020 campaign and the second was for the company’s Fall / Winter 2020 campaign.

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According to the documents, the fashion designer agreed to pay Jenner $ 1.5 million and a 20% service charge for her work. Liu Jo claims Jenner traveled to Europe to shoot the first campaign, but the second photoshoot did not take place “due to the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic and associated travel restrictions.”

Liu Jo claims to have offered to postpone Jenner’s second shoot to fall 2020.

Liu Jo offered Ms. Jenner several alternative dates and locations for the second photo shoot. Ms. Jenner repeatedly failed to provide Liu Jo with definitive answers to Liu Jo’s proposals, offered no reasonable alternatives, and ultimately refused all of Liu Jo’s proposals. Offers of compromise in good faith, “say the legal experts.

Jenner and the fashion house agreed to a September 28, 2020 date for the second shoot, but Jenner “reneged on” and “instead proposed that the photoshoot take place in October,” the fashion house continues in the complaint. .

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A spokesperson for The Society Management denied the allegations in a statement to Fox Business on Thursday.

This lawsuit is without merit. Company management, on behalf of Ms. Kendall Jenner, has continually offered Liu Jo alternative dates and locations to fulfill an agreement that had to be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Jenner voluntarily offered to complete services honoring his commitments ”, we can read.

Liu Jo also accuses Jenner of contradicting her claims that it would be “impossible” to travel to Italy in September 2020 for the second photoshoot by allegedly doing it for another designer in the same month.

Ultimately, Liu Jo claims that “multiple efforts” to help Jenner get to Italy “did not elicit any response” from the model, which led the fashion agency to inform her that she did not had not met its obligations, according to the documents.

“Due to Ms. Jenner’s refusal to negotiate in good faith, Liu Jo was forced to find replacement models and restructure her entire Spring / Summer 2021 photoshoot – at great cost to Liu Jo – due to the Ms. Jenner’s refusal to maintain her late negotiating, ”the complaint states.

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Liu Jo is now asking that the first two payments made to Jenner be “promptly refunded”. To date, the designer claims to have paid Jenner $ 1.35 million for her services, including the second photoshoot she claims she did not attend.

“Ms. Jenner violated the agreement by failing to fulfill her obligations under the agreement and no payment has yet been returned to Liu Jo by Ms. Jenner,” the documents continue.

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Liu Jo is claiming “at least” $ 1.8 million in damages. Representatives for Jenner did not immediately respond to Fox Business’s requests for comment.

Jenner is known as one of the highest paid models in the world. She rose to fame thanks to her family’s old hit E! reality TV series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” before launching her modeling career. More recently, she launched her own brand of tequila, 818 Tequila.