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Guess fashion bigwig Paul Marciano has reached a million-dollar settlement with two models who accused him of sexual misconduct, The Daily Beast has learned.
According to the Guess, Inc. quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the fashion mogul and his company paid a total of $1 million to resolve the Jan. 2021 lawsuit filed against him by “Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2,” now known to be former Guess models Amanda Rodriguez and Gwen Van Meir—though it is unclear how much that figure was divided among the pair.
The August 2022 settlement’s terms noted that Marciano disputed any wrongdoing and that the payouts were given “in order to avoid the cost of litigation and without admitting liability or fault.”