Calvin Klein Model Seeks Damages For Zip-Line Incident At Billionaire's Property
The 25-year-old model crashed into a tree, sustaining multiple pelvic fractures and abrasions to her body.
Trouble in paradise. Billionaire businessman and founder of CC Capital Chinh Chu is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit after a model was hurt in his New York estate last month.
According to various reports, the 53-year-old investor allegedly invited a group of models together with his friends to his Westchester, N.Y. property on July 17. Page Six reported that one of them, Simona Andrejić, took a ride on a garden zip line that failed to brake at the end of the track.
The 25-year-old model crashed into a tree, sustaining multiple pelvic fractures and abrasions to her body. Several stitches "were needed in her arms" as well. A witness told reporters that Andrejić was stuck "agonizing pain for two hours" before paramedics arrived to bring her in the nearest treatment facility.
Simona was later transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut via a helicopter. In a statement given by Andrejić's legal counsel, Salvatore Strazzullo, the model is currently in a lot of pain and cannot work. He added that his client should be fairly recompensed for the terrible incident.
Sources close to the matter said that Chu, a former Blackstone managing director, initially told Simona that "he'd take care of things." However, a person close to the model has testified that billionaire only granted "Andrejić a settlement of a few thousand dollars a month for a year."
The insider added that 53-year-old allegedly warned "to cut off the payments for her medical care and hotel," when Simona did not accept the offer. Currently, the Calvin Klein model is stuck in a wheelchair and cannot walk.
Page Six added that Andrejić has been incapable of returning to her New York City walk-up apartment. When pressed for comments, both Chu and Simona declined to comment on the issue.
Simona Andrejić is a Serbian fashion model born in Belgrade, Serbia. She has been featured multiple times by Elle and is one of the prominent faces of Calvin Klein's campaigns.
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