Fashion designer Nancy Gonzalez jailed for smuggling crocodile handbags into US for New York Fashion Week

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.

' Salma Hayek, Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham are among celebrities who bought Gonzalez's carefully crafted handbags. Her work was also included in a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In court, her lawyers played a 2019 video of top buyers from Bergdorf Goodman, Saks and others praising the designer's creativity, productivity and humanity.

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