A source tells us that an upcoming issue of New York will feature a cover story basically absolving fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
According to the source, Terry Richardson will allegedly tell writer Ben Wallace-Wells (UPDATE: Wallace-Wells denies involvement, it might be the similarly named Benjamin Wallace) the mag that he is innocent of all of the sexual assault allegations leveled against him. He will, in the words of our tipster, “say the girls are full of crapola.” The tipster adds:
He has convinced the editors that he is innocent. The girls have no idea that they are going to be the losers.
Although Terry Richardson has not been charged with a crime, for four years now, models have come forward with stories about how he pushed boundaries during photoshoots. Many of the women involved claim that they froze or suddenly disassociated themselves from the situation, only realizing later what had happened: He’d asked them to touch him. He’d taken out his penis. He’d ejaculated on their faces. The women involved? Young. Barely of-age. One describes herself as “a rapist’s dream, completely naive and trusting, but passive and shy on top of that.” Another says as soon as Richardson got naked in front of her during a shoot, she began to “zoom out of the situation.” A not-uncommon psychological response to trauma.
Richardson has argued that the women involved knew what they were getting into:
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