In a statement to Variety, Condé Nast denied the accusation that white staffers are paid for video appearances while people of color are not. And on Sunday evening, the media company issued a statement denouncing discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
Wintour's email also comes on the heels of André Leon Talley's explosive memoir, The Chiffon Trenches, where he writes about his complicated 30-year friendship and public falling out with the Vogue editor-in-chief.
Talley writes that Wintour is "not capable of simple human kindness," despite frequently calling his book a tribute and a "love letter" to his former colleague.
In an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning in May, Talley clarified why he considers it a "love letter" even though he said his words will "probably be very hard for her to read."
"This is a painful thing for me, but it is a love letter because it's a love letter about the joys as well as the lows of my life. And the joys of my life have been with Anna Wintour," he explained. "I owe to her the pioneering role that I had of a creative director of Vogue. I was the first black man to ever be named such. I owe that to Anna Wintour. I owe her much. And I think, in turn, I think she owes me. She owes me kindness and simple grace and being decent when things go south."
When The Chiffon Trenches was released in May a source close to Wintour told PEOPLE exclusively: "Anna considered André a friend for over 30 years and naturally was saddened by the way he chose to portray many aspects of their friendship, but he is of course entitled to tell it as he remembers it. She wishes him the best."
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