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This guy creepmaxxed with a bunch of attractive models (some ended up being famous after working with him). Basically all of his work is softcore porn passed as "art."
On 22 October 2016, Thierry Ardisson, the host of the French talk-show Salut les Terriens! on TNT C8 channel, named Hamilton as the alleged rapist of now radio RTL presenter Flavie Flament. According to Flament, the acts were committed in 1987 when she was 13 years old, in Cap d'Agde, a naturist resort in Hérault, southern France. She mentions them in her novel La consolation, a romanticised story based on her purported life experiences. After Flament publicly identified Hamilton, the book led to Hamilton being accused of being a predatory pedophile.[1][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Flament's brother has called certain revelations in her book into question. He also states that at the time Flavie complained of inappropriate behaviour by the photographer resulting in her parents stopping Hamilton from continuing with her.[25] On 22 November 2016, Hamilton issued a statement threatening legal action against his accusers.[26][27] When contacted by the French press agency AFP, Hamilton declared that he was not to blame. "I didn't do anything wrong," he said, while claiming only that he took a portrait of Flament, "29 or 30 years ago". Flament put the portrait on the cover of La consolation.[4][28]
On 17 November 2016, the weekly news magazine L'Obs published anonymous accounts by three other former models who affirmed to have been raped by Hamilton.[29][30][31] One day later, Flament confirmed that Hamilton was the rapist whom she had not identified in her book.
On the evening of 25 November 2016, Hamilton's cleaning lady entered the apartment of the 83-year-old photographer at 41 Boulevard Montparnasse[32] in southern Paris and found him dead with a plastic bag over his head and medications close at hand.[citation needed] The autopsy revealed that asphyxiation was the cause of death. Suicide is the leading hypothesis in the investigation.
David Hamilton (photographer) - Wikipedia
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