After his startling molestation indictment, former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries maintains a hidden relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Knewz.com, the indictment charges Jeffries and his life partner, Matt Smith, for sexually abusing male models from 2008 to 2015.
In 1992, entrepreneur Les Wexner personally selected the 80-year-old to oversee the renowned clothes company. Wexner also happened to be the late pedophile Epstein’s primary financial client.
Wexner hired Epstein as his financial advisor five years prior to appointing Jeffries to manage Abercrombie & Fitch, granting him authority over his personal affairs. At one point, Epstein’s money-management company operated out of one of Wexner’s houses since the two were so close.
While awaiting trial on allegations of sex trafficking, convicted pedophile Epstein was discovered dead in his jail cell in 2019 under suspicious circumstances.
Epstein was accused of serving up underage girls and women to his clients and pals. But Wexner denied knowing anything about anything. Additionally, he would sever all contact with Epstein following his 2008 guilty plea to sex charges involving a minor.
Wexner is currently addressing his own claims of sexual assault against another of his close associates.
One year after the fashion mogul was accused of sexually abusing male models in a lawsuit, Jeffries, his life partner Smith, and another man, Jim Jacobson, were arrested in October.
According to the accusation, Smith and Jeffries had intercourse with the models for seven years. In order to recruit the victims, Jacobson allegedly traveled “throughout the United States and Internationally”.
The prosecution described this as a “tryout” in which Jacobson would coerce men into engaging in sexual actions with him.
Only when they complied with Jacobson’s demands were the models permitted to attend the sex events, which Jeffries also attended.
Additionally, Jeffries, Jacobson, and Smith are charged with running a referral scheme that paid the male models who brought in new clients for Jacobson’s sessions. In order to receive their incentives, the models occasionally had to fabricate information regarding the true purpose of the meeting.
According to the prosecution, several victims were tricked into thinking that if they complied with the sexual demands, they would be given modeling opportunities at Abercrombie. Additionally, Jeffries is charged with threatening to terminate the men’s modeling careers if they failed to comply.
According to the indictment, the models were told to use sex toys and dress up in costumes in order to be ready for specific sexual actions. Additionally, they were told to alter their appearance for Smith and Jeffries.
Prosecutors assert that victims were given prescription-grade erection-inducing drugs to force them to perform sexual actions that they otherwise couldn’t or wouldn’t perform due to physical limitations.
Following a lawsuit filed in 2023 by a number of alleged victims, Jeffries and the other two men were the subject of an inquiry.
In a statement following the arrests, Brittany Henderson, a lawyer who represented some of the accused victims, described the actions as “monumental for the aspiring male models who were victimized by these individuals.”
Their “fight for justice does not end here,” she continued. We are eager to hold Abercrombie & Fitch accountable for their role in enabling this heinous behavior and to make sure it doesn’t occur again.
Abercrombie & Fitch claims to be looking into the claims, while Jeffries and Smith deny any misconduct and Abercrombie & Smith denies knowing of the sex parties.
After the release of Netflix’s 2022 documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, which examines the store’s ascent to fame under Jeffries’ direction, Abercrombie and Jeffries faced criticism.
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