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While his name gathered dust on a British police file, and the girls he allegedly violated at Chetham's school of music grew into adulthood, burying their stories, Chris Ling moved to Los Angeles, set up a talent agency and reinvented himself as a Hollywood svengali. The former violin teacher impressed colleagues in the US film and music industry with his English accent and a no-nonsense, didactic style they dubbed the "Chris Ling school" of talent management.

Chris Ling, a former Chetham's School of Music teacher who was facing extradition from United States, to face allegations of sexual abuse of students.

When he says something you know he'll follow through. He's upfront, he doesn't like bullshit and in this industry that's rare," said Melanie Marquez, a publicist who has collaborated with Ling, The agency described itself on its website as the "pre-eminent symphonic management company on the west coast of the United States". Founded in , the year after Ling moved to the US, it originally focused on conductors and soloists, then expanded.

Not an A-list, not prolific, a respectable niche. Ling has in the past defended the use of glamorous photographs to promote his clients. Ian Pace, a London-based musicologist and blogger, posted excerpts from a Omaha World Herald article which described Ling's strategy of promoting classical musicians' glamour and sex appeal as if they were pop stars.

Actors and publicists termed his direct manner — a contrast to Hollywood fluff — the "Chris Ling school" of management, she said.

Chris Ling caused an immediate stir when he arrived at Chetham's school in the s.

Once, she said, he had talked a director into cutting a topless scene from a script because it was not appropriate for his female star. The Guardian interrupted Ling's Californian idyll with a report on Monday detailing allegations from 10 women who described abusive and predatory behaviour by Ling when he taught them violin at Chetham's in the s.

Greater Manchester police investigated complaints against Ling in but the inquiry was shelved for unclear reasons. No charges were brought. Ling left Chetham's, and the UK, soon after. Ling declined last week to respond to the Guardian's allegations.