For a short time, Janice Schott ran the busiest kids and teens talent agency in Portland. Advertisers pay talent agencies within 30 days from invoice.
Agents take their cuts and forward the balance to the models within two weeks.
At least that's how it's supposed to happen. Too often, Cusick and others say, unscrupulous hype artists convince parents that their child is the next Macaulay Culkin. Pride and greed sometimes take the place of sound judgment. Had parents checked Schott's record before allowing her to handle their children's money, they would have found disturbing signs. That inability to pay bills continued, according to Schott's former associates and numerous models' parents interviewed by WW .