BRITISH photographer David Hamilton, 83, has been found dead after committing suicide, according to a police report, days after allegations against him had surfaced of historical rape. He was found unresponsive in his Paris home by a neighbour.
Television and radio host Flavie Flament, who had recently gone public to claim Hamilton raped her almost 30 years ago when she was 13, has reacted with anger at the news of his apparent suicide, saying, ‘By his cowardice, he condemns us again to silence.'
Hamilton, who lived much of his life in France, had denied the allegations that he had sexually assaulted Flament and several other women while they were in their teens.
Hamilton's soft-focus portraits of teen girls, often nude, had been the subject of controversy in the past, including…
