The war between top modeling agencies Ford and Next is claiming some collateral damage.
An arbitrator says Ford Models defector Kendra Spears must pay her former agency more than $150,000 in royalties, The Post has learned.
Spears, who’s been called “the next Cindy Crawford,” has been at the center of a nasty legal battle between Ford and rival Next since 2009, when she catwalked away from her Ford contract to play for the other team.
Ford filed suit to try to make her return, calling Spears, now 22, “one of the shining stars of the Ford development system” and noting that she was “signed as a prospect while still a teenager in braces.”
The legal action resulted in a court order barring Spears from going to work for Next, but that ruling was overturned on appeal.
The arbitrator, however, determined that the model still owes Ford $150,564 in back royalties.
Ford has filed legal papers seeking to get a judge to enforce the order.