NYC designer accused of $54k wage theft touts $8k jewelry and claims shes the victim: Massively unjust.
It should be illegal to look as good as Andrea Mary Marshall does on her carefully curated Instagram feed.Perhaps soon, it will be.On Wednesday, the 44-year-old fashion designer — who heads up Salon 1884, a luxury fashion brand that has dressed Julia Roberts, Katie Holmes, and Cynthia Erivo — arrived at New York County Criminal Court for a pre-trial hearing.The glamorous former model and elite party fixture faces an ugly accusation.According to charges filed by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Marshall bilked New York’s best-in-class garment workers out of $54,000 in just three years.She has pled “not guilty” to all charges.In his filing, Bragg alleges that Marshall coerced former employees into working up to 100 hours a week and then gaslit them about payment.It seemed like a cut-and-dry case of an entitled socialite trying to pull a fast one on hardworking New Yorkers, many of them immigrants striving to feed their families.It was also a shocking fall for the Boston native, who was lauded for both her fashion and art in elite fashion publications like Vogue and Elle, and even dated Kate Moss’s ex-husband, Jefferson Hack.In a New York Times profile that was even more glowing than her skin, Marshall even confessed that she’d added “Mary” to her name in order to sound more Catholic.But according to numerous former associates, Marshall’s behavior was hardly Pope-like.Former employees, friends, and fellow Vogue-approved designers paint a picture of a brilliant but financially unsavvy woman who — in the words of one allegedly swindled former employee — “believed more money would appear… and when it didn’t, she froze.
She just doesn’t know how to handle this.”But Marshall’s lawyers, Anna Estevao and Justine Harris, told The Post that the case is more complicated.“There is so much more to this story,” the attorneys told The Post exclusively in a statement.“Ms.Marshall is a solo female entrepreneur and artist who did her best under...