(The company is publicly traded.)Įven by the standards of privacy-obsessed billionaires, Epstein’s business practices are shrouded in mystery. L Brands’ board of directors has “engaged outside counsel to conduct a thorough review” of Epstein’s connections with Wexner and the company, a spokesperson told CNN Friday. They alerted Wexner, who promised to handle the issue.
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Two former L Brands executives also told the paper that they had learned in the mid-1990s that Epstein was trying to get involved in recruiting models for the Victoria’s Secret catalog, side-stepping professional agencies. It wasn’t until Epstein was in the news more than a decade later - pleading guilty to federal charges in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor - that she realized he had never worked for the company, she said. There, according to a police report filed with the Santa Monica Police Department and obtained by the Times, he told her to undress, groped her, and said he wanted to “manhandle” her. (Wexner himself hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing, and according to a spokesperson, he severed ties with the financier over a decade ago.)Ī new report from the New York Times reveals that, in May 1997, Jeffrey Epstein posed as a talent scout for Victoria’s Secret, the multi-billion-dollar lingerie giant owned by Les Wexner’s L Brands, in order to lure a model named Alicia Arden to his hotel room. He’s worth $4.8 billion, according to Forbes, and for at least a decade he was Epstein’s only publicly known client. Wexner is the founder, chair, and CEO of L Brands, the Ohio-based conglomerate that owns Victoria’s Secret, Pink, and Bath & Body Works.
Updated July 26 with information from a New York Times report.Īmong the many appalling allegations and reports of shady business dealings coming out about Jeffrey Epstein, the money manager arrested July 6 on federal sex trafficking charges, one name keeps cropping up: Leslie H.