The powerful Johnny & Associates Japanese talent agency is to split into two parts following a major sex abuse scandal.
The company announced on Monday that it will break itself into two parts – one to be called Smile-Up, entirely devoted to compensating victims – the other as a talent agency operating with a new name, that has yet to be decided.
The abuse of boys and young men supposedly under the agency’s care went on for more than two decades and may have affected more than a hundred clients, a recent report found. The abuse by Kitagawa, who died in 2019, was seemingly widely-known in agency and media circles, but remained an open secret.
Last month, Fujishima said that she would resign, that a compensation committee would be established and that the group would forgo a portion of its fee income. But these moves appear not to have been enough to stem the flow of bad publicity and corporate client resignations. Taylor Swift Joined by Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Blake Lively at Travis Kelce’s Chiefs Game Against New York Jets
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