Top models accuse NYC agent of scamming them out of thousands with photoshoot swindle

Selena Christina Perez gets paid to be hot, but lately she’s been scorching the earth for free. In a recent social media post, the model alleges she’s owed $3,000 for her work with legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath — cash that Perez claims has been missing for over a year.But it isn’t Dame McGrath withholding payment.Instead, the 23-year-old Brooklynite is accusing a well-known agent named Shannon Leebern, owner of the Ludlow Scout modeling agency.The post is just one of many on a newly-launched Instagram profile called Ludlow Scam, detailing the agency’s alleged sins including unpaid invoices, threatening texts and bizarre excuses for missing cash.Through a lawyer, Leebern insists that she is the one being scammed by “a disgruntled photographer who has been paid in full.”The model mess, she vows, is really one big “smear campaign.” But in just a week, over 20 models, photographers, stylists and parents have called or emailed The Post, alleging that Ludlow Scout owes them thousands of dollars in promised refunds or unpaid labor.

Perez, who has also modeled for Makeuo by Mario and Aritzia, is one of them.Over TikTok, the Brooklyn resident shared what she claims are screenshots of unpaid bills, emails from Pat McGrath’s finance team, pages from her Ludlow Scout contract and texts from Leebern about payment delays.“I’ve heard she was getting a divorce.I’ve heard her mom is ill.

I’ve heard every excuse under the sun,” a frustrated Perez told The Post.Meanwhile, Leebern’s lawyer claims her client “has devoted her time and energy 24/7 into making sure the models had everything they needed.”So who is the real fashion victim? Ludlow Scout opened in 2014 on the Lower East Side.Helmed by Leebern and her then-partner Della Bass, it served as a “mother agency,” discovering new talent in states like Leebern’s native Georgia, then training them for catwalks New York and Paris. (Della Bass left to create her own successful agency in...