article_snippet.sent: Richardson rarely responds to the allegations levied against Richardson, but in March 2014 - after a model posted a piece on Reddit including a string of sexual assault accusations Richardson wrote an open letter for Page Six.
article_snippet.sent: In an open letter for Page Six, posted by the US gossip website, Richardson said that the accusations were 'false,' 'hate filled libelous tales.'
article_snippet.sent: Richardson said: 'Enabled and protected by the freewheeling and often times anonymous nature of the Internet, people have become comfortable concocting hate-filled and libelous tales about my professional and personal lives. '
article_snippet.sent: In writing this, I make a humble attempt at correcting these rumors, because I have come to realize that absent my voice in the conversation, all that remain are the lies.'
article_snippet.sent: Richardson said: 'I have never used an offer of work or a threat of rebuke to coerce someone into something that they did not want to do. '
article_snippet.sent: I give everyone that I work with enough respect to view everyone as having ownership of everyone free will and making everyone decisions accordingly, and as such, it has been difficult to see Richardson as a target of revisionist history.'