The photographer, whose portraits of top White House officials featured in a bombshell Vanity Fair article that made waves across the internet, has opened up about encountering sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein in 2015.
“I didn’t know much about him, other than the fact that he had heavy connections to powerful men,” Christopher Anderson wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “He wanted to meet me before the shoot to negotiate buying out the pictures after publication.”
Anderson told followers he first met Epstein in 2015 when he was assigned a project by New York Magazine to accompany an article by journalist Michael Wolff, who was apparently in communications with the billionaire financier at the time about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
He shared copies of photographs taken during the project, which featured a black-and-white close-up of Epstein and his desk, showing a printed email exchange between Epstein and the British Royal Government office.
The email was addressed to Amanda Thirsk, the private secretary of former Prince Andrew, who now goes by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. It in part reads: “I have expressed my concern to you that despite all our concerted efforts I still remain unpaid. The financial arrangements have been agreed directly between the Duke, the Duchess and I for some 2 months.”
