When Jezebel's Jenna Sauers opened her email inbox to anyone with a sexual abuse allegation against Terry Richardson, she might not have expected the flood of stories she got. Although Richardson claims his innocence ("I don't like to exploit anybody. That's not my bag. Everyone has fun on my shoots."), an increasing number of members from all levels of the fashion industry are coming forward to say they've felt violated by the photographer, or that they know someone who has.

We had no idea where to start here, so consider these stories. First, a report from a woman who modelled in London in the late '90s: "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.'"

And another model, who says she posed for Richardson two years ago when she was 19: "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."

Sauers also spoke with model agency bookers, former bookers, editors, writers, stylists, various industry insiders, and yes, photographers - who say that Richardson's photographer-as-predator reputation makes their jobs harder. Richardson maintains an influential circle (both Vogue's Anna Wintour and French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld are among the fans of his shots), so most of the tips came anonymously, to minimise the fear that those who gave them would lose their jobs or be blacklisted. Another anonymous source had a story of Richardson allegedly harassing two Eastern European girls who couldn't speak English, and yet another questioned why he "doesn't shoot black girls." We could go on, but click here to read the rest.

Richardson's scandal initially hit the press last week, when Danish supermodel Rie Rasmussen got in a fight with the photographer in Paris and made him so upset he fled the scene, and then called her agency to complain about her. "I told him, 'What you do is completely degrading to women,'" Rasmussen said. "I hope you know you only fuck girls because you have a camera, lots of fashion contacts and get your pictures in Vogue.'"

A few days later, Jamie Peck reported that, at a photo shoot when she asked to keep her underwear on because she was menstruating, Richardson asked if he could make "tampon tea," requested that she call him "Uncle Terry," stripped naked without warning, and told her she earn an A if she could make him ejaculate from a hand job. She did, and Richardson's assistant was there to give her a towel.