Controversial photographer Terry Richardson is moving into a new chapter at 50 — fatherhood.
Multiple sources tell Page Six that Richardson’s former assistant-turned-girlfriend Alexandra Bolotow is pregnant and that the couple’s been discreetly telling friends.
A source further told us that Bolotow’s three or four months along.
We’re told 30-something Bolotow has known Richardson for 10 years, and she appeared in 90 explicit photos by the fashion photographer in his 2005 book, “Kibosh.” She reportedly met him when she was still an NYU student, then became an intern for Richardson before working for him full time and later studying anthropology at Columbia.
Bolotow was also one person who rushed to Richardson’s defense last year during a media firestorm when he was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of models, though none of them ever brought charges against him.
“I think part of being a strong woman is owning the decisions that you’ve made in your life,” Bolotow said in a 2014 New York magazine cover story on Richardson and the controversy. “Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.”
Richardson — who’s known for shooting subjects from Barack Obama and LeBron James to Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and GQ — had penned his own piece rebutting the claims, saying, “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. I give everyone that I work with enough respect to view them as having ownership of their free will and making their decisions accordingly.”
In New York mag, Bolotow said that she and Richardson “have a lot of conversations about things — the weird moral quandary of sexual things.” Seems the conversations will soon extend to diapers. Bolotow, Richardson and his rep didn’t get back to us but Richardson confirmed he’s going to be a dad by posting Page Six’s exclusive story on his Instagram feed with the caption, “Babies’ first Page Six shout out!”
And he also said he and Bolotow are welcoming twins, adding, “We weren’t planning to make this news quite so public quite so soon, because we are very cautious after going through some very difficult and heartbreaking losses, and always afraid of jinxing it, but since the cat is out of the bag… Skinny and I are very excited to let you guys know that we are expecting TWINS in the spring!!! This has been a difficult journey and we are so thankful to be surrounded by so much love and support from our friends and family, and some incredibly smart doctors! I’m sure the kids will be excited to use this as a Throwback Thursday one of these days!!!”