Terry Richardson is quickly becoming the Tiger Woods of the fashion industry.
After two women broke their silence of the photographer's creepy shenanigans, more models have come forward with allegations that echo those before them.
One model recalls how Terry behaved while on set of a photo shoot:
"I was a model in the late 90s in London, and I was booked on a Terry Richardson job for Arena Homme Plus. The shoot was at an amusement park, and I would estimate that there were 30 models in total […] and we were told that all of us would be given an opportunity to shoot a cover try. Being familiar with Mr. Richardson's…..peccadillos, many of the models were eager to please; pleasing in this instance consisted primarily of pulling down pants, pulling up skirts, losing blouses, and a bit of finger sucking thrown in for good measure.
It seemed painfully clear to me that the phantom lure of a cover try was sufficient reason for a handful of young women with waning career prospects to humiliate themselves in front of each other while Terry Richardson giggled, panted, said "That's hot," and pushed them further.
During lunch, I approached him and asked him if he had any moral quandaries about exploiting the sad dreams of models who hadn't yet made it and probably never would. I asked him if he realized that they were enacting what they believed were his expectations and fantasies in order to gain his favor and hence gain a cover or a future booking. "I don't really think about that stuff," he told me. "I guess you're smarter than me."
Another 19-year-old model, now 21, says she did what she thought was an "artful nude" shoot because she needed the money:
He first asked me to play with myself, and just made really creepy demands. He said it wasn't pornish because he was shooting still shots, and when I said that I felt like he was seeing if I was just dumb, he handed me the camera and said, "Fine you should [shoot] me playing with myself."
I mean his assistants were like, "Do you think all these celebrities would take pictures with him if it was porn?"Then he said to take pictures of him touching me. Eventually, he had me go down on him and took pictures of him coming on my face, which I had never done before, and when I went to the bathroom to clean up I could hear him and an assistant joking about it which is when I decided to never tell anyone.
What's probably the most disgusting part of the whole thing is that according to one fashion insider agencies know very well what Richardson has been doing the whole time.
Sad.
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We called it!
Barely a week after Rie Rasmussen accused photographer Terry Richardson of manipulating young models, another model confirms those allegations!
Jamie Peck, who was 19 at the time of her shoot with Terry and had posed numerous times in the nude for other photographers, says "he's the only one who's left me feeling like I needed to take two showers."
Nasty!
Jamie originally met the photog at a party, where she posed for him and then again at his studio. She says he took her picture while she danced around naked and asked her to call him Uncle Terry and that's before things got weird. Peck describes in detail of her second session with the Richardson:
"Before I could say “whoa, whoa, whoa!” dude was wearing only his tattoos and waggling the biggest d*ck I’d ever seen dangerously close to my unclothed person (granted, I hadn’t seen very many yet). 'Why don’t you take some pictures of me?' he asked. Um, sure.
So his assistants took pictures of me taking pictures of him. All the while, he was dropping names like they were hot…"
And the here's the kicker: Jamie claims Terry got her to perform sexual favors and offered her a signed print as payment.
clASSy.
However, Jamie declined because she "felt so gross about the whole thing".
We have a feeling there's a couple of models that can top that story. How long until they come forward???
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This is just awful!
Civil rights group Make the Road New York sent two subjects, one transgender and one not, to apply for jobs at 24 different stores.
Out of all the stores that were applied to J. Crew treated the potential transgender employee unfairly, but when it came to the other applicant they offered them the job.
After the results, the civil rights group staged a protest outside the company's Fifth Avenue store.
Also worth noting is Dean & Deluca was the only store to offer jobs to both applicants and Virgin Megastore only offered the job exclusively to the transgender subject.
Sad.
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Rie Rasmussen is furious with celebrity photographer Terry Richardson.
At a Paris Fashion event the supermodel took a dig at the photog saying she was upset at Terry for using her picture in his book Terryworld, which features pHOtos of half-naked young girls simulating sex acts.
Eww!
Rie said angrily:
"He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves. His 'look' is girls who appear underage, abused, look like heroin addicts . . . I don't understand how anyone works with him. I told him what you do is completely degrading to women. I hope you know you only [bleep] girls because you have a camera, lots of fashion contacts and get your pictures in Vogue. Instead of arguing with me, Terry ran out of the bar. Then the next day, he called my agency and complained I called him names in front of clients in Paris. It was the most cowardly thing I have ever seen."
Hmm, we're getting flashbacks to convicted rapist Anand Jon Alexander.
A rep for the photographer said "I don't know anything about this. Terry is on a plane from Paris."
While we certainly hope nothing like this happened, we wouldn't be surprised if a model or two came forward with rape allegations against Terry.
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What are they trying to say?
A Louisiana Walmart is charging less for a Ballerina Theresa doll than a Ballerina Barbie doll.
After the picture started popping up on the internet the retail giant was forced to explain the price difference, saying it's "to prepare for Spring inventory, a number of items are marked for clearance."
In an effort to cover their assets, Walmart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien says:
"Both are great dolls. The red price sticker indicates that this particular doll was on clearance when the photo was taken, and though both dolls were priced the same to start, one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers."
But critics are still outraged with the so called "sale tactic" pricing.
Executive Director Thelma Dye of the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem says: "The implication of the lowering of the price is that's devaluing the black doll. While it's clear that's not what was intended, sometimes these things have collateral damage
And others agree. Lisa Wade, a sociology professor said they could have left the pricing the same to not "reproduce whatever ugly inequalities are out there".
What do U think???
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