Fashion designer Nancy Gonzalez jailed for smuggling crocodile handbags into US for New York Fashion Week
by Sky News
Sky News— A celebrity handbag designer whose products have been used by Britney Spears and on Sex And The City has been jailed for smuggling crocodile handbags into the US for fashion shows. Nancy Gonzalez, 71, admitted recruiting couriers to carry as many as four products each on commercial flights from her native Colombia to the US for New York Fashion Week, among other high-profile events. Gonzalez, who was arrested in 2022 in Cali, and later extradited to the US, was sentenced to 18 months in a...
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