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France probes US tourist rape charge during Fashion Week

French authorities said Monday they have opened an investigation after an American tourist said she was raped while in Paris to attend Fashion Week. "An American tourist said she was raped after a party in a hotel bar," in capital's northwestern 17th district, the public prosecutor's office said. French daily Le Parisien said that the American...

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Guess co-founder quits after sex assault probe

Paul Marciano, co-founder of the Guess fashion brand, resigned Tuesday in the wake of an investigation into sexual assault claims. Marciano "exercised poor judgment in his communications with models and photographers and in placing himself in situations in which plausible allegations of improper conduct could, and did, arise," Guess said in a...