Karen Mulder Covers Vogue Germany 30 Years Later with Focus on Model Abuse

Karen Mulder Returns 30 Years Later to Vogue Germany September AOC Fashion

1990s supermodel Karen Mulder covers the September 2026 issue of Vogue Germany [IG]. Mulder was an early Victoria’s Secret Angel, with her life and job prospects on a roll until 2001.

Mulder’s Vogue Germany cover is her first in 30 years. She is styled by Dogukan Nesanir in Celine for the cover, adding Giorgio Armani, Loro Piana, Maison Alaia, Maison Valentino, Noor Hammour Paris, Sportmax, and more, in images by Sean+Seng [IG].

In that year Karen Mulder made shocking claims of abuse against the fashion industry and its treatment of models. Interviewed for a French talk show, the Dutch super ended up in a psychiatric hospital resulting from her commentary, which never aired on television or to the general public.

Vogue Germany is more assertive in their commentary, writing:

“In the early 2000s, she was ruthlessly cancelled after becoming one of the first to speak out against abuse in the fashion industry.”

In her interview, Mulder insists that in order to obtain her release from the psychiatric hospital, she had to stipulate that she made up the entire story of fashion model abuse as shared with the French talk show. All tapes were destroyed by the French talk show.

In 2002, Mulder was found unconscious in her apartment, after taking an overdose of pills.

Another name in the Mulder case is Elite Model Management European president Gérald Marie, who has been publicly linked by accusers and investigative groups to the wider network surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Jean-Luc Brunel. Both Epstein and Brunel died by suicide in jail.

AOC goes deep into these allegations, including a flurry of new legal complaints based on old claims, filed in Paris in July 2026.

Two New Confrontations Employed by Alleged Victims Gain Momentum

The refusal of Epstein’s victims to sit down and shut up has inspired these women. We all know that there is much more to the Epstein story, and officials are trying to hide the facts.

The second current of change is the decision among all the women to be honest and unfrightened in their willingness to detail the brutality involved in these alleged rapes.

AOC admits to being caught off-guard on the depths of extreme misogyny, pain and injury that accompanied the alleged sexual activities by many of these men.

In decades of activism dedicated to curtailing the sexual abuse of women worldwide, I admit to being stunned at the depths of pain and suffering that these mostly men require for sexual pleasure.

Reality begs the question if it’s really about sex at all.

We have a case in New York filed against New York financier Howard Rubin and his personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, that is staggering in its claims of physical abuse against the women.

Details of the case are outlined by NBC News and also in the paperwork filed by the US Justice Department in the Eastern District of New York. And they are outlined in AOC’s article on link top of page.