Coco Rocha[1] has gotten herself caught in the middle of a model war.
The cover girl, who took a management and ownership stake in Nomad Mgmt two years ago, just lost a battle with Federico Pignatelli, the owner of Industry Model Group and Pier59 Studios. Pignatelli sued Nomad after Giovanni Bernardi left Industry’s Los Angeles office after just six months to help create Nomad Los Angeles.
“It is clear that Bernardi only took the position at Industry to obtain trade secrets, confidential information, employees and resources for his own venture,” Pignatelli’s lawyer Robert Tauler wrote in an LA Superior Court suit.
Rocha and Bernardi tried to countersue, but their suit was dismissed after Tauler argued that allowing the countersuit to proceed would be akin to allowing “a fox into the henhouse.”
Nomad counsel Damian D. Capozzola said, “We look forward to trying the case on the merits and we are confident of victory at trial.”
References
- ^ Coco Rocha (pagesix.com)