News · moment 11 of 18
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Trafficking Scandal
from Pizza Hut & Birkin Bags | The Tim Dillon Show #415 · #415
9 min
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What starts as a fake personal anecdote about modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch turns into a real discussion of the Abercrombie CEO's arrest for sex trafficking male models at parties, with Tim expressing fatigue at the constant stream of celebrity trafficking scandals.
- Tim reveals he was a model for Abercrombie & Fitch and recounts getting recruited at a mall food court while eating chicken.
- Every news cycle is the same repetitive story: sex trafficking, celebrity scandals, nothing new.
- The Abercrombie CEO was running casting couch parties under the pretense of model auditions to sexually exploit young men.
- Tim says he needs this to be brutal rape—not just models complaining about being objectified—to care about the scandal.
- Defense attorney angle: young men getting on planes to supposed modeling events didn't realize they were walking into orgies.
- Maybe fashion and the modeling industry should just be eliminated entirely.
- People working at pizzerias and bars aren't getting trafficked—it's always the models.
- Tim expresses fatigue with the endless rotation of trafficking scandals hitting the news every week.
- The constant coverage cycles through the same five stories like a 90s documentary: kids in cages, rape narratives, over and over.
- What about DXL, the fat store—are they trafficking people too, or is it only Abercrombie?
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