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French Prosecutors Close Rape Investigation Into Former Elite Models Management Executive Gérald Marie

Prosecutors closed the investigation Monday on the grounds that the alleged crimes took place too long ago to fall within the French statute of limitations for a trial, Agence France-Presse reported.
Gerald Marie, former director of Elite Europe, photographed in 2001. Getty Images.
Gerald Marie, former director of Elite Europe, photographed in 2001. Getty Images.

Marie was the subject of a criminal investigation spanning more than two years for a string of alleged sexual assault and rape offences that took place in the 1980s and 1990s.

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