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We own the company, which has the great garden in front of the building. We got the phone call from the rep of the company Heartland Model Agency. He asked if he could make photo shoot in our garden. He offered money and we agreed. He arrived with the models and all his team, but after they finished, no one came to us and paid or told anything. They simply took their stuff and went away. We tried to reach them, but they ignored all our emails. I wonder if there are other people, who had the same experience. Can you provide any good piece of advice?
I am a parent of one of the models that participated in the shoot. When we arrived the grounds keeper, who seemed very nice but drunk welcomed ALL the girls and gave them the rundown on the cemetery and where it was okay to shoot and where it was not okay to shoot. All the rules were followed. In the middle of the shoot the grounds keeper approached Vadim, who is no longer an employee of Heartland, and requested payment. I saw with my own eyes Vadim pay him cash and also gave him a bottle of Vodka as a thank you for all of his help. The grounds keeper was joking around with everyone and even pulled his teeth out of his mouth and offered to be a toothless model! The models were dressed in Haute Couture dresses and there was no blood or fake blood at all. It was a very classy high fashion couture shoot. Everyone respected the Graves and even said a thank you prayer at the end. The only one who was some what disrespectful was the grounds keeper and his drinking buddies watching the models change their outfits, trying to sneak peeks at the girls while they changed. I am sorry that there was a misunderstanding but it is not on the part of the model agency. The grounds keeper probably spent the money on more booze! Here is a link to the Magazine. Decide for yourself if this shoot was disrespectful. I think it was beautiful and the cemetery staff knew in advance what we were doing there! www.issuu.com/heartlandmodelmagazine/docs/sept2014
Good you did not do business with them!I was a model with heartland and I must say that it is a complete scam. The person running the "Agency" is very unprofessional with his emails and how he handles situations. When a model leaves he makes it public through Facebook and lashes out about one model to everyone on the Facebook group. In addition, I do not believe his name is his real name, Jorgen Jorhenssen, as he is not allowed to travel out of the country, something seems very wrong there. The strangest part was when he started a reality tv show where he was looking for a wife and asked a lot of the models to partake in the reality show, including myself. In addition, in order to attend class there's a 20$ fee that must be paid! Beware of him, and warn everyone. Do not sign up with them or him, doesn't seem that there's anyone else involved but him!
To also include, don't feel bad he doesn't pay anyone. Some of the models would do hair shows and not even get their part of the deal. They keep it all and most if not all are non paid shows.
Jorgen Jorgensen is an illegal alien. his visitor visa has expired and he is working is this country illegally. He steals money from the models telling them the shows or shoots are unpaid and he keeps the money. Several girls were never paid for hair shows they did. This is a very unprofessional con man. Go to google.se then search his name and everything he did in sweden comes up. He told me he needed to get married to get an investor to give him 3 million dollars to buy into heartland model agency. He is a liar and he needs to be sent back to Sweden where he came from. He is a poor excuse for a man. He claims to know many different disciplines of martial arts but the Sweden google search proved that to be untrue. The man is a loser. He claimed to be the president of the Mongol's MC club in Sweden and also a member of the Masons which is also a lie. what an idiot!
I was also model with heartland modeling agency and may I say there a complete scam ! Normally agencies don't make you pay for your own runway classes ! But heartland does and if you don't go to the classes they don't give you audition Information! I walk to New York fashion week and they said we would be paid for it but I was never paid and so I did the best thing I could possibly think of and resigned with heartland. Plus who wants a 55-year-old man flirting with you when you're trying to accomplish your dreams ? Screw that! Heartland is a SCAM.
Everything that has been written above is completely TRUE! I was very involved with the agency until I supported my 18 year old daughters decision to resign from Heartland Model agency. She is a model and very successful since leaving Heartland. There were numerous reasons for her leaving the agency. Firstly, Jorgen, being 47-48 years old was constantly hitting on my daughter. It was disgusting and unprofessional. Secondly, He lies to the girls about what fashion shows are paid shows, then he keeps all the money.. (most shows are unpaid and the models do the shows for the exposure, occasionally, there will be a paid show and Jorgen would keep that money as well and tell the girls it was an unpaid show). He is in the United States on an expired visitors Visa. He is not supposed to be here working and he is collecting money from each model every week for the runway classes. Here is something everyone should know. He will insist you pay for professional pictures by a Photographer of his choosing. It is an astronomical amount of money and the worst part of it is, the photographer is a student or new photographer building his portfolio. The photographers he uses do not get paid at all and Jorgen Jorgensen keeps all the money collected from the Model. This is common for photographers to shoot for free in order to build their own portfolios, those in the industry know those kind of shoots as TFP shoots.(Trade for photos) Basically the photographer will sometimes have their own theme, which is great because the model gets to build her portfolio for free doing those kind of TFP shoots, especially if the photographer ends up being good. It is a gamble and you might not get great shots, but it is experience in front of the camera. JORGEN IS AN UNSCRUPULOUS MAN WITH NO MORALS OR CONCERN FOR HIS "MODELS" AT ALL. He will sign just about anyone, including those clearly not model material, simply for the money he will make off the photo shoot and weekly classes. I strongly suggest you steer clear of this man and his so called Model agency if i t is still alive!