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Look of the year, hosted by Trump

Available facts contradict the claim that the look of the year parties had the careers of participants at heart. Aspiring young models who travelled from around the world to compete in the pageantry that had been running since 1983. The prize was a $150,000 contract with Elite Model Management, the world's leading modelling agency at that time. "[Donald Trump] was a headline sponsor ... He was also one of its 10 judges". Accounts from the participants revealed some dirty details. "[Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto] recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump...". Barbara Pilling recalls Trump, in the summer of 1989, asked her out for dinner. When Trump asked about her age, she recalled saying "I said 17 and he said, 2018That's just great 2013 you're not too old, not too young.'"