American Apparel CEO Dov Charney Has A Way With Women March 9, 2008

Controversial American Apparel founder Dov Charney has been accused of a lot of things: conducting interviews in his underwear, masturbating in front of a magazine reporter, giving AA employees vibrators as gifts, and other sexual harassment-related things. But does any of that make the man with muttonchops a bad guy? Sure, Charney might not pay his models for the sexually-charged ads that have helped make American Apparel such a success, but that doesn’t make him a bad guy either! At least not to Claire Salinda, an American Apparel model who has defended Charney in this article for Radar Online.

“And like that, within an hour of meeting Dov, I am on my back and my shirt is on the floor while he, in the politest way possible, is telling me I have perfect boobs,” Salinda writes.

Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis, who is currently locked up in a Nevada jail, has made millions taking advantage of intoxicated women who will expose themselves for a tacky GGW thong, maybe a trucker’s hat — if they’re lucky. Charney pays his models about the same (see: next to nothing) for the provocative American Apparel advertisements. And no, women don’t get “extra” if there’s a visible wet spot in their thong ad.

Claire Salinda modeling AA’s signature spandex.

Salinda insists she is not a “dumb ho who is too strung out on coke and low self-esteem” so why would she willingly take her clothes off for Charney if there would be no residuals whatsoever?

“I think my nearly naked ads on the back covers of your magazines and newspapers are funny. When I am old and my metabolism gives up on my steady diet of cheese popcorn and my once-glorious boobs are no longer perfect, at least I will have the proof that once upon a time I didn’t go to the gym and I was still pretty f–king hot.”

Other reasons: Charney offered her a can of Coke, Charney likes models who eat, Charney will have short conversations with you about porn, Charney gives his employees vibrators.

“And for women, maybe he’s the man they’ve always wanted in their lives, the one who shoves French takeout in front of them, tells them they’re beautiful in spandex, and gives them vibrators just because. For the record, this rumor about Dov is true and I’ve never been more thankful. Anyone who thinks getting a guaranteed orgasm as a gift is gross is lying. Straight up lying.”

If your boss gave you a sex toy, would you find it gross? Or would you agree to work for him for free? Don’t lie!

[Radar Online]