Terry Richardson Doesn’t Like to Exploit Anybody O.K.?

By Molly Fischer 3/12/10 3:40pm

Model Rie Rasmussen called out professional sleazeball (and photographer) Terry Richardson for being sleazy, to which he did not take kindly. Rasmussen tells the Post:

“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.”

When she expressed these general sentiments to Richardson at a party in Paris (“What you do is completely degrading to women. I hope you know you only [bleep] girls because you have a camera”), he apparently stormed out of the bar, then called her agency the next day to complain.
In Richardson’s defense, the Post notes he has said in the past that he doesn’t “like to exploit anybody.” Which is a start, we guess.

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topics: Daily Transom, Rie Rasmussen, Terry Richardson
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