Thursday, August 16, 2012

Zahia Dehar: the perfect media story

Zahia Dehar is a lingerie designer, a protege of Karl Lagerfeld. But she's also at the centre of a scandal involving two of France's top footballers and allegations of underage prostitution

Despite her best efforts, Zahia Dehar is still best known in France as a footballer's birthday present. The 20-year-old surprise new muse and protege of the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was not long ago a teenage, underaged prostitute who met clients in VIP bars around Paris's Champs-Elysées while her mother apparently thought she was at sleepovers with schoolfriends, and was paid for sex by one of France's most famous football stars.