Maggie Rizer
Maggie Rizer
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Maggie's high school graduation portrait was hung in Burns Photography studio and in the local mall. Neighbors saw the large photo and encouraged Maggie's mother Maureen to send the photo to the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. Maggie's pale skin, covered in freckles, and her bright blue eyes caught the modeling world's attention. Rizer initially turned down modeling offers to continue her studies at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Maggie's hair is naturally strawberry blonde. She dyed her hair carrot-red and attracted the attention of Italian Vogue and photographer Steven Meisel. They booked her for her first cover and 20-page couture layout in September 1997. She was also featured on the April 1999 cover of American Vogue with Kate Moss. Her second American Vogue cover was in November 2000 with models Carmen Kass, Angela Lindvall, and Frankie Rader. That year she was up for the 2000 VH1/Vogue "Model of the Year" award. Carmen Kass was the eventual winner. Maggie went on to appear in many fashion spreads and on the covers of dozens of fashion magazines including "Elle", "Lucky," "Vogue," and Flare.
Maggie was at the peak of her modeling career in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Neal Hamil, her agent at Ford, said
She was a canvas you could manipulate and mold into whatever mood or look you were doing, which made her, obviously, a very popular model. That, and the fact that she was so eager to please.
She starred in campaigns for GAP, Clinique, Louis Vuitton, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Versace, Viktor & Rolf, Celine, Romeo Gigli, and Max Mara.
Her favorite designers were Miuccia Prada, Gucci, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui. Her favorite photographers are Steven Meisel, Patrick DeMarchelier, Irving Penn, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Chadwick Tyler.
Maggie also briefly appeared in a television episode ("Let There Be Light") of Sex and the City during Season Six. She is the model who begs Smith to party with her and her friends at Richard Wright's hotel.
Maggie earned around $20,000 per fashion show and her day-rate started at $30,000. She amassed a fortune of $7 million in only five years.
At 20, Maggie and her mother hired a New York City financial manager to handle her money in exchange for five percent of her earnings. Weeks later, her stepfather John Breen, who was in the insurance industry, told her that this was a waste of money and that he wanted to handle all of her finances.
John had a serious drinking problem, however. After dropping off his younger children at school, he would spend the day at a local bar, The Speakeasy (currently renamed to Fort Pearl because of this story[citation needed]), and was addicted to the state-run lottery game "Quick Draw." The family would assume he was at work as he worked for himself at a small local insurance agency. According to him, after he lost his savings, he turned to Maggie's money and sometimes lost over $60,000 of it per day. Everyone but John was unaware of these losses.
Maggie's hair is naturally strawberry blonde. She dyed her hair carrot-red and attracted the attention of Italian Vogue and photographer Steven Meisel. They booked her for her first cover and 20-page couture layout in September 1997. She was also featured on the April 1999 cover of American Vogue with Kate Moss. Her second American Vogue cover was in November 2000 with models Carmen Kass, Angela Lindvall, and Frankie Rader. That year she was up for the 2000 VH1/Vogue "Model of the Year" award. Carmen Kass was the eventual winner. Maggie went on to appear in many fashion spreads and on the covers of dozens of fashion magazines including "Elle", "Lucky," "Vogue," and Flare.
Maggie was at the peak of her modeling career in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Neal Hamil, her agent at Ford, said
She was a canvas you could manipulate and mold into whatever mood or look you were doing, which made her, obviously, a very popular model. That, and the fact that she was so eager to please.
She starred in campaigns for GAP, Clinique, Louis Vuitton, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Versace, Viktor & Rolf, Celine, Romeo Gigli, and Max Mara.
Her favorite designers were Miuccia Prada, Gucci, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui. Her favorite photographers are Steven Meisel, Patrick DeMarchelier, Irving Penn, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Chadwick Tyler.
Maggie also briefly appeared in a television episode ("Let There Be Light") of Sex and the City during Season Six. She is the model who begs Smith to party with her and her friends at Richard Wright's hotel.
Maggie earned around $20,000 per fashion show and her day-rate started at $30,000. She amassed a fortune of $7 million in only five years.
At 20, Maggie and her mother hired a New York City financial manager to handle her money in exchange for five percent of her earnings. Weeks later, her stepfather John Breen, who was in the insurance industry, told her that this was a waste of money and that he wanted to handle all of her finances.
John had a serious drinking problem, however. After dropping off his younger children at school, he would spend the day at a local bar, The Speakeasy (currently renamed to Fort Pearl because of this story[citation needed]), and was addicted to the state-run lottery game "Quick Draw." The family would assume he was at work as he worked for himself at a small local insurance agency. According to him, after he lost his savings, he turned to Maggie's money and sometimes lost over $60,000 of it per day. Everyone but John was unaware of these losses.
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