AGENT'S ANGER
Chloe Ayling’s dumped agent tells of ‘disappointment’ she has signed up for top celeb agency – as he admits he feels ‘responsible’ for sending model into the ‘hands of a kidnapper’
THE FORMER agent of kidnapped British model Chloe Ayling has told of his "disappointment" after she signed up for a top celeb agency - and admits he feels "responsible" for sending her into the ";hands of a kidnapper".
Phil Green, of Supermodel Agency, was managing the 20-year-old when she claims she was drugged and abducted by the mysterious Black Death gang after being lured to Milan for a fake photo shoot last month.
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During the mum-of-one's ordeal, Mr Green was sent a ransom email filled with demands before she was released and taken to the British consulate by her alleged captor Lukasz Herba six days later.
After returning to the UK she decided to drop Mr Green as her agent and signed for Kruger Cowne, which represents dozens of household names, including Cher, Goldie Hawn and Claudia Schiffer.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Mr Green described feeling "hacked off" by her decision to leave his agency after the "huge stress" of supporting her through the ordeal.
He told presenter Jeremy Kyle: "I am hacked off. It is disappointing because Chloe has had the most amazing year with the agency.
"She probably has been the most successful model, within the agency, and to pay up for all those expenses, to live that ordeal with her, deal with ransom notes and the huge stress of trying to get her released."
He added: "We spoke on the day she got back many times because the phone was ringing - there was a huge amount of work and job offers coming in.
"I think by Monday morning I counted there was £200,000 worth of work coming in for her.
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"She didn't do this for publicity purposes for any means."
He claims that the only reason Chloe decided to speak out was because the Italian police had publicly released the details of her ordeal.
"She was humiliated by the fact she had been kidnapped," he said.
"She had been through an ordeal and she wanted to forget it, come back home and start her normal modelling life, but the Italian police gave out a press release and gave every detail about the situation."
Despite dumping him within days of her return, Mr Green said he "will remain staunchly loyal to her" as "she has been through an awful ordeal".
And as her agent, he admits he felt "responsible" for sending her to Milan, but felt he had done the right checks.
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Mr Green said: "I felt responsible in the sense that I didn't want to send her to the hands of a kidnapper.
"I thought I was sending her to a proper photo shoot in a studio.
"Everything checked out, nothing was flagged up to say anything was suspicious."
Miss Ayling yesterday described the moment she was drugged, gagged, handcuffed and dumped in the boot of a car by a sex gang who tried to sell her as a slave on the internet as the "worst day of my life".
She revealed she was told she would be killed if she tried to escape after being “knocked out” with ketamine, taken by masked men and chained to a chest of drawers in a remote Italian farmhouse.
One of her kidnappers then showed her two knives to make it clear her life was one the line.
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Her captors claimed they were part of an online organisation called “Black Death” and vowed to sell her off to depraved fiends if her agent didn’t cough up a £270,000 ransom.
The kidnapper’s ransom note even perversely claimed the ordeal would “kickstart” the model’s career.
The model “I was in shock. That will always be the worst day of my life."
The men told her she would probably be trafficked to the Middle East where - once her buyer became bored of her - she would be fed to the tigers.
She has also hit out at those who doubt her version of events, claiming she did everything she could to survive.
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“People need to understand that everything I did was so I could survive,” she said.
"So many lies have been said. But I know the truth, the police know the truth and it will all come out at the trial."
She has now told in graphic detail how her life changed forever after she landed in Italy for a routine "photoshoot."
She said: “I walked through the open door and put my luggage down. I was expecting to hear people setting up the shoot but there was silence.
"It was a bit creepy but then I saw a door with a sign on it which said 'Studio'. As I reached for the handle, I felt an arm come around my neck from behind me.
"I tried to scream but a gloved hand was covering my mouth and my nose. I panicked because I couldn’t breathe and I brought my hands up to my face. I was trying to get his fingers off my nose and I managed to catch one breath."
She told how another man then stepped in front of her wearing a black ski-mask with a syringe in his right hand.
"This was my worst nightmare. I didn’t know what was in the syringe. I was panicking. I thought they were going to rob or rape me. I was terrified beyond words.
"They dragged me to the floor. I just gave up – I thought, 'I’m not going to get out of here alive."
The Black Death - experts in evil trade
THE Black Death claims to carry out kidnappings, extortion, bombings, arms deals and assassinations.
The shadowy crime group was supposedly set up in Eastern Europe in the mid-1990s.
The group’s material can be found on the dark web — websites accessible only with special software.
Black Death boasts it kidnaps “specific targets for your needs” and guarantees free “EU delivery.”
Ads for abducted women often feature invasive photos along with breast size, height and weight. One girl was photographed with her arms tied behind her back.
It asks for payment in online currency Bitcoin, making transactions almost impossible to trace.
Chloe said after that everything went black.
She later learned they had taken compromising photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web to entice bidders.
Polish national Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, has been arrested by police and reportedly confessed to the "elaborate" kidnapping.
His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers.
Milan magistrate Dr Giovanna Campanile ruled he was "highly dangerous to society" and should remain in custody ahead of his trial later this year.
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