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Aug. 23, 2025 – In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in a California civil court, Massenet accused Erik Torstensson, her partner of 14 years in life and work, of leading a “rampant” double life replete with prostitutes, alcoholism, drug use, and exorbitant spending. The news has dominated the group chats of the fashion firmament from Los Angeles, where Massenet was born and where Torstensson’s fashion line, Frame, is partly based, all the way to England, where they entertained at their lavish homes in South Kensington and Wiltshire.
They met in 2009, the year before Massenet sold her stake in Net-a-Porter to the Swiss luxury-goods conglomerate Richemont for a reported $70 million. Back then, Torstensson was a plucky young marketing executive and creative director who pitched Massenet on the men’s-wear digital vertical that would become Mr. Porter.
