Conde Nast International 'bans' fashion photographer Terry Richardson

According to the Telegraph, COO James Woolhouse sent an internal email to "country presidents" stating his intentions to ban the American photographer's work from the company's many publications, which include worldwide editions of Vogue, GQ, Glamour and Vanity Fair.

Following that, an email circulated by Condé Nast International, a mass media parent company, told GQ, Vogue and Vanity Fair to "kill" any scheduled shoots with Richardson.

At the weekend, a United Kingdom newspaper asked why the 52-year-old was still being "feted by fashionistas" in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations.

A spokesperson for Richardson told BuzzFeed in a statement on Monday that his client was "disappointed" about the Conde Nast email.

It is believed to have been sent by the firm's executive vice president James Woolhouse. No new allegations of assault or abuse have surfaced, but it's assumed that the recent abuse allegations made against producer Harvey Weinstein have encouraged publications to vet their creators more ruthlessly.

He wrote: 'I am writing to you on an important matter.

What has done for him is a long report which appeared at the weekend in The Sunday Times in London, accompanied by a photograph of a naked Miley Cyrus astride a wrecking ball on a building site. And if they happened to be working on projects with him or had projects that were not yet published, those should be "killed or substituted with other material".

'Please could you confirm that this policy will be actioned in your market effective immediately. Several models from the Model Alliance (a not-for-profit organization that supports models' rights) backed the woman (known only as "Anna"), telling The Huffington Post that Richardson, "will ask you to take your clothes off at the casting, and in some cases, [to] give him sexual favors".

And Richardson has long denied the claims of sexual misconduct, even in the face of a 2013 Change.org petition requesting a ban on his work.

Photographer Terry Richardson attends the WSJ Magazine 2016 Innovator Awards at Museum of Modern Art on November 2, 2016 in New York City.Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty Images for WSJ. "I have never utilized an offer of work or a risk of reproach to constrain somebody into something that they would not like to do", he said.

"He is a craftsman who has been known for his sexually unequivocal work such a significant number of his expert collaborations with subjects were sexual and express in nature however the greater part of the subjects of his work partook consensually".