Interview Magazine Sued by Ex-Director for $600K in Unpaid InvoicesThe magazine is facing a few other lawsuits over payment by former employees.

[Collection]Things aren’t looking so great over at Interview magazine. The nearly 50-year-old glossy is facing yet another lawsuit, this time from it’s now former editorial director Fabien Baron and his wife, stylist Ludivine Poiblanc, who claim they’re owed more than $600,000 for their consulting and styling work. “Defendants have been completely derelict in fulfilling their legal requirement to remunerate Fabien and Baron Inc.,” the couple said in a complaint filed late Wednesday in Manhattan court. “Defendants’ actions demonstrate a total disregard for the legal obligations they assumed by employing Fabien, Baron Inc. and the many collaborators he recruited to produce the finest work possible.” A spokeswoman for Baron declined to immediately comment beyond the complaint. Representatives of Interview and its parent company Brant Publications, owned by billionaire Peter Brant, could not be immediately reached for comment. In the complaint, Baron claims to have made “numerous demands” for payments of many of his invoices, which date back to 2015, and last year, Interview president Kelly Brant, one of Peter Brant’s nine children, acknowledged the need for payment of just under $500,000 in invoices. She agreed that the company would start paying Baron in monthly installments of $10,000, but that allegedly has not occurred. As for Poiblanc, who’s styled

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