He’s definitely not Jeffery Epstein’s type.
The model who posed for the infamous painting “Parsing Bill” says he can’t believe the artworkwound up on Epstein’s walls — making him one more person forced to hang around the wealthy pedophile’s home without their consent.
“I was absolutely stunned to find out that Epstein bought the painting during a major event at the school,” Christophe Nayel told artnet news.
Nayel donned the blue dress and red heels in 2012 as he posed for Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, who created the work at the New York Academy of Art.
The painting was later sold at a fundraising auction for the school, according to the report, and wound up displayed at Epstein’s Upper East Side home.
Ryan-Kleid told artnet that the dress and shoes were a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. She also said she made the work as part of a series commenting on US politics that included a separate picture of George W. Bush playing with blocks.
“It was just a silly school artwork that was supposed to show, pictorially, the messages we are bombarded with in regards to these presidents,” she told the art site. – READ MORE