227:, Abraham "Avi" Nakash, and Raphael "Ralph" Nakash) of New York. The joint venture soured and in 1989, a California superior court jury found that the Nakashes had fraudulently lured the Marcianos into the transaction. In 1990, the Nakash brothers settled for $ 66 million of $ 106 million escrowed profits and the ownership of the brand name "Gasoline" while the Marciano brothers received the brand "Diesel." Paul Marciano first handled advertising and public relations and later became president and chief operating officer of the company in 1993. In 2004, Paul and Maurice Marciano together owned close to 70 percent of the 44 million shares.
164:, a Jewish boy scout group which was located in the same complex. At 15, he and a friend were involved in a motorcycle accident when they collided with an oncoming car. After being told he would never walk again, he spent seven months in a wheelchair. He eventually regained full use of his limbs after a year and a half, but was not re-accepted into school due to his prolonged absence. Unable to finish his education, he traveled to
290:(NLRB) seeking to represent about 70 visitor services associates and other employees at the foundation, seeking a raise from the California minimum wage. On 7 November, all Visitor Services associates were laid off and the museum closed. Labor organizers then wrote to the NLRB, stating the foundation of "...illegally discriminated against its employees by laying off employees en masse and/or closing its facility."
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and four other women which were settled for $ 500,000. Marciano had previously been accused of sexual harassment in 2008 and 2009, after model
Lindsay Ring filed a suit that stated Marciano "began to create a hostile work environment for Ms. Ring by making sexual comments to her, repeatedly touching
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and intended to house the
Marcianos' 1,000-piece collection. In order to avoid any conflicts of interest with Maurice Marciano's subsequent co-chairmanship of MOCA, the project was temporarily put on hold. The museum opened in 2017. On 1 November 2019, A petition was filed with the
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201:. The Marciano brothers, Paul, Georges, Armand, and Maurice, visited Southern California during an extended leave in 1977, and developed an appreciation for the area. After political changes in France in 1981 and the rise to power of socialist
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with his four siblings, Georges, Armand, Maurice and
Jacqueline. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were rabbis. They lived in an apartment in a synagogue complex. From ages 8–15, Paul, along with his brothers, was a member of the
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her inappropriately and without her consent, and attempting on at least two occasions to fondle her sexually after taking her to a private area at the worksite." He became
Executive Chairman and remained Guess' chief creative officer.
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Kymberly Marciano; they had two children Nicolai (born 1996) and Ella (born 1994) before divorcing. In 2016, he married French model,
205:, the Marcianos closed MGA and moved to the United States. They also ran an MGA on Little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills in the early 1980s. The brothers soon started the world-famous clothing company Guess.
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633:"Guess? Jeans Chief to Quit, Sell Off Stake"
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