Sexual Harassment Claims Resurfaced on Terry Richardson and Leading Fashion Magazines Cut Ties

Top fashion magazines sever ties with Terry Richardson amidst resurfaced sexual harassment claims. Get the full story on the industry's reckoning.

Terry Richardson, a fashion photographer known to have worked with famous artists such as Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus and also received work from famous fashion magazines such as Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair, has been facing sexual harassment claims from the models who worked for him on various projects.

Recently, these allegations resurfaced post the Harvey Weinstein case, leading to big fish in the fashion magazines world especially Conde Nast International group cancelling their contracts with Richardson.

Email communication was circulated by James Woolhouse, executive vice president of Conde Nast International group to cancel all the present and future contracts with the photographer.

Richardson constantly denies the claims as he says that models were completely aware of the nature of work and he never provoked or threatened anyone to do anything without their willful consent.

Terry Richardson is known as the 'bad boy photographer' of the fashion world, and is known for his raunchy and obscene sexually explicit photoshoots.

Though he work has been quite acclaimed, Terry Richardson is quite notorious, and even Miley Cyrus, whose 'Wrecking Ball' music video lies to Terry Richardson's credit, has since then regretted her music video.

The 52 year old photographer has been accused for sexual misconduct by a number of models over the years, however Terry Richardson has recently spoken against the claims saying that he has always worked with consenting models who had been aware of the nature of his work.