“I want them to know what happened in the past between me and Araki,” Kaori said last month. People should know, and they should look.” Mr. Araki declined repeated requests to comment. Kaori described one incident when foreign photographers came to observe Mr. Araki as he took pictures of her. By 2015, the relationship had soured so badly that Mr. Araki insisted she sign a document vowing not to defame him or his business. The model said a gallery that represents Mr. Araki, Taka Ishii in Tokyo, eventually removed the images from various websites.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2018 14:15 UTC