How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria's Secret for Wealth and Women

[Sherman A1]

In May 1997, Alicia Arden, a model in California, was introduced to a man who identified himself as a talent scout for Victoria’s Secret. He invited her to his Santa Monica hotel room to audition for the brand’s catalog. When she arrived, Ms. Arden said, the man grabbed her, tried to undress her and said he wanted to “manhandle” her. Ms. Arden, then 27, fled in tears.

It was the type of crisis that should not have come as a complete surprise to leaders at L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret.

In the mid-1990s, two senior executives had discovered that the same man, a close adviser to the company’s chief executive, Leslie H. Wexner, was trying to pitch himself as a recruiter for Victoria’s Secret models. Mr. Wexner was alerted, according to the two executives.

It is unclear what if any action Mr. Wexner took in response. But the man — Jeffrey E. Epstein, a New York financier — had developed an unusually strong hold on Mr. Wexner, one of the country’s most influential corporate titans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html

[Botany]

1. So will Ohio State keep the names Wexner Center for the Arts and or Wexner Medical Center?

n/t

[FarPoint]

2. Looks like Wexner is a mammoth OSU investor...

I seriously doubt anything at OSU Medical will change bases on past associations.....The name is everywhere...

[luvs2sing]

3. Wexner is ubiquitous here in Columbus.

Wexner/L Brands and Ohio State (a fairly shady place in its own right). That’s Columbus. I can’t imagine it changing.

[PA Democrat]

4. Very weird relationship between the two men.

The clearest sign of Mr. Wexner’s nearly limitless comfort with Mr. Epstein came in July 1991. Mr. Wexner signed a three-page legal document, known as a power of attorney, that enabled Mr. Epstein to hire people, sign checks, buy and sell properties and borrow money — all on Mr. Wexner’s behalf. Mr. Epstein, the document stated, had the “full power and authority to do and perform every act necessary” for Mr. Wexner.

“It takes a vast amount of trust to give someone total control,” said William P. LaPiana, an associate dean at New York Law School and a trust and estates expert who reviewed the document at the request of The Times. “Essentially what this means is, I can sign your name to anything.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html?register=email&auth=register-email

[FakeNoose]

5. Supposedly Wexner severed his friendship/business relationship with Epstein

... when Epstein became a convicted sex offender. Epstein hasn't done "investments consulting" for Wexner for about 10 years, as I understand it. Somehow Jeffrey ended up with Wexner's 7-story co-op in Manhattan, and nobody seems to know how that happened. There's no bill of sale on the record. Kompromat? Who knows.

[FarPoint]

6. Here is a discussion link about Wexner....

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/cimjk6/ama_this_is_bob_fitrakis_here_to_answer_your/


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AMA | This is Bob Fitrakis, here to answer your questions about the Epstein-Wexner connection to the intelligence community and organized crime!
I'm Bob Fitrakis, investigative Journalist, Professor of Political Science, and Editor of the Columbus Free Press. From 1997 to 2003, I was one of the first to investigate and report on Epstein and Wexner's connections to the intelligence community and organized crime. Below I've linked a few of the articles that cover this. AMA about this or other work I've published.

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