Famous Ephebophile: American Apparel's Dov "Daddy" Charney & [Alleged] Teen Sex Slave

Dov Charney

Sapna Maheshwari posted on Buzzfeed that American Apparel (AA) revealed explicit text messages and emails between teen staff members and Dov Charney - the infamous ousted founder and ex-CEO of the Los Angeles based company. The revelations were in response to a May 2015 defamation lawsuit filed by Charney.

Some of alleged texts that Charney sent exemplify how he's allured by nymphets: 

"Daddy is so excited to play with the most little tiny blond c_m kitten in the whole school" 

"I want baby girl droooooool all over my c_ck"

Colleen Brown, the chair of AA's board and member of the Suitability Committee that investigated and terminated Charney, alleged that Charney “frequently engaged in inappropriate sexual banter, infantilizing [young] women and referring to himself as ‘Daddy’”.

In 2011, Charney was sued by Irene Morales who claimed that 38-year-old Charney began seducing her when she was 17. And Morales claimed that on her 18th birthday, she had anal sex with Charney before styling her his sex slave. 

However, Charney purported that Morales voluntarily sent him revealing text messages (e.g., "I bought a fat dildo....") and emails (e.g., [...] do it for all those blowjobs I would give you, and how I would lick your little a**hole clean!!!) - some of which were posted by Gawker. 

In the end, an arbitrator awarded Morales $700,000, because Charney didn't stop nude pictures of the nymphet from being posted online.

And the New York Times reported in 2011 that 19-year-old Kimbra Lo filed a lawsuit against 42-year-old Charney. Lo claimed that Charney undressed her, tried to have sex with her and attempted to photograph the teen after she visited his apartment to talk about getting a job as a model and photographer with AA. 

Charney has been sued at least five times; however, all of the cases were settled or dismissed without Charney being formally found guilty of any crimes.

American Apparel's Back to School Lolita Wear

American Apparel's Lolita Wear

Time reported on the backlash that American Apparel received on social media after the company posted raunchy pictures on its Instagram account of "... a girl bending over a car, revealing her underwear and buttocks under her skirt." In addition, the company is selling Lolita mini skirts and crop tops. 

The fact that American Apparel is basing their sexy campaign on 12-year-old Lolita, whom initiated sex with H.H., her middle-aged step-father, and gave him (paid) hand-jobs while he looked alluringly upon other nymphets, is revealing. 

In reality, the campaign is a reflection of raunchy teen behavior. American Apparel is selling teens what they, teens, want. Like Douglas Rushkoff mentioned in the documentary Merchants of Cool (2001), "It's a feedback loop." (i.e., American Apparel wants to be a cool company that sells sexy clothes, and cool teens want to wear sexy clothes.) 

The Guardian reported previously:

The UK advertising watchdog has banned a campaign by the retailer American Apparel for using a partially nude model, who appeared to be under 16, in a series of images that suggested she was "stripping off for an amateur-style photo shoot". 

The Advertising Standards Authority received a complaint that it could be seen by children and inappropriate because the model seemed "young and vulnerable and [the ad] could be seen to sexualise a child"."

A spokesperson for American Apparel defended the advertisement by saying that the model is 23-years-old and that the advertisement was meant to highlight the hoodie and not the girl's cleavage and breasts. Thus, the model only looks like a nymphet and viewers should be concentrating on the Flex Fleece and not the model's tan lined breasts.