LeBron/Gisele Vogue Cover Tanks
So much for all the controversy.
It certainly didn’t translate into sales.
Many thought “the photo played off of racially degrading King Kong-like images of African-American men,” according to WWD.
According to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report, the LeBron/Gisele issue sold 350,000 issues on newsstands, about 100,000 copies fewer than the April 2007 issue, which featured Scarlett Johansson on the cover.
