Tyra Banks Exploited Women the SAME Way This Man Did in 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld Jr

The ANTM Netflix documentary has everyone talking about Tyra Banks in 2026. But this story didn't start with America's Next Top Model. It started in 1907.

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ran the Ziegfeld Follies for over two decades — the most powerful entertainment platform of its time. He called it "Glorifying the American Girl." What he actually did was control women's bodies, exploit their talent, discard the people who built his empire, and die performing on his deathbed while the women he used were buried in unmarked graves.

Sound familiar?

In this video, we're breaking down the disturbing parallels between Tyra Banks and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. - two entertainment moguls separated by 100 years who ran the EXACT same playbook.

We're covering:

We're covering Anna Held, the woman who CREATED the Follies concept and got replaced by a teenager. Lillian Lorraine, discovered at 16, made a star, and died with only 3 people at her funeral. Jael Strauss, forced to pose as a corpse on ANTM hours after her friend's overdose, who later died at 34. Miss J Alexander, integral to ANTM's success, who hasn't been visited by Tyra since his 2022 stroke. The 1919 chorus girls who demanded fair pay vs. ANTM contestants who were never paid by the network. Tyra's deleted tweet and her documentary defense that echoes Ziegfeld's exact words from 1919. And what Cycle 25 means if this 100-year pattern holds.

This pattern has been running for over a century. The only thing that changed is the cameras.