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PolitiFactCrime & justice

Photo shows “Wayfair president of operations Bill Hutcherson with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Related reporting identifies the photograph at issue as showing Ghislaine Maxwell with watchmaker George Bamford at the 2003 opening of his New York store—not with a Wayfair executive named Bill Hutcherson. It separately says that no individual named Hutcherson has held a position at Wayfair and that the company has never employed anyone with the title “President of Operations.” Those points directly contradict both the identification of the man in the photo and the job description in the claim. The report also says the Wayfair connection has no supporting documentation: “The claim linking the pair to Wayfair’s alleged activities has produced no supporting documentation in the years since it first appeared.” The supplied excerpt does not describe image-analysis procedures or identify the original photograph’s photographer or archive, so it supports the report’s identification and employment claims but does not provide a detailed account of how those findings were verified.