The woman may be a Japanese. It's not uncommon that John likes to embrace the person who joins him in the photo . How peculiar and stylish John is in the first picture!
In think It was during the promotion of "the shadow" 1994 . The knife on the table is in the film. The woman is probably the journalist who interviewed him... " Off John's arm! Off John's arm ! Off John's arm ! " hahaha
here is the link to the japanese blog. maybe someone could understand who this woman is here again "off John's arm ! off John's arm....woman !" My god ! I think i'm going to laugh about that for the rest of the day hahaha