Melania’s evolution
After Trump’s election, at which point many media outlets speculated that he had played a major role in helping the president-elect achieve victory, he was named a senior advisor to the president; at that point, he stepped down from his role as publisher of the Observer. Over the past few weeks, both models and agents seemed to be leaving the company in droves. Most notably, agency manager Gabriel Ruas Santos Rocha left the company to start his own agency, ANTI management.
He took many of the agency’s models along with him. Many of those exits have been low key, but model Maggie Rizer, one of the first to leave, had announced her departure from the agency back in November on Instagram. “As a woman, a mother, an American and a human being, I cannot wake up Wednesday morning being the least bit related to the Trump brand; win or lose,” she wrote. “I owe it to myself and to my children to proudly stand up for what I believe in and that is a world where Donald Trump has no voice for the future of our country.”
