If Sarah doesn’t like the photo being used, then why did she pose for it? She had to have signed a release. Otherwise, she’d be suing Newsweek.
They lifted the photo from runners week which she posed for months ago
The same thing happened to Glenn Beck with his cover photo on TIME. It had been taken on a much earlier shoot for another publication, situation, the agreement was that it would not be used for another, the photographer sold it to TIME anyway. As far as I know, he didn't sue, but he's made enough statements on the lack of integrity by that photographer to make his point without lawsuit.
I don't know what they pay these days, but 10 years ago the they would pay at least six grand for a cover photo. I know because I was working in the news photo department of a large daily newspaper. We had an event one Saturday that was going to be a national story, a kid crashed a stolen aircraft into a downtown building. One of our shooters happened to answer the phone in the photo lab that afternoon and it was a Swedish paper wanting to get a picture of the plane hanging from the window of the building. He thought he would be enterprising and he agreed to send them one for the modest fee of $500. He ftp’d the image to them and thought that was the end of it. Two days later he learned the paper had agreed to sell his photo to Newsweek for, IIRC, six grand. But when they found out it had already been published by the Swedish paper they were very angry and canceled the order! If it had been anyone but this guy he would have been out on his ear. He's an excellent photographer and they gave him a pass for that little trick. He wasn't so lucky next time and was fired a few months after that.