Nov. 25 2024, Revealed 7:30 p.m. ET
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries has a secret connection to Jeffrey Epstein following his surprising abuse indictment.
The indictment accuses Jeffries and his life associate, Matt Smith, of sexually exploiting male fashions between 2008 and 2015, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested in October and accused of sexually exploiting male fashions.
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The 80-year-old was handpicked to run the long-lasting clothes retailer by tycoon Les Wexner in 1992. Wenxer additionally simply occurred to be the principle monetary shopper of now late pedophile Epstein.
5 years earlier than deciding on Jeffries to deal with Abercrombie & Fitch, Wexner retained Epstein as his monetary guru, giving him energy of lawyer over his private affairs. The duo was so shut that at one level Epstein’s money-management agency ran out of one among Wexner’s properties.
Convicted pedophile Epstein was discovered useless in his jail cell in 2019 beneath mysterious circumstances whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking fees.
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Jeffries has a secret tie to now late pedophile Epstein.
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Epstein would allegeldy serve up girls and younger ladies to his associates and shoppers. Nonetheless, Wexner denied having any information of that. He would additionally fully lower ties with Epstein after he pleaded responsible to intercourse offenses involving a minor in 2008.
Now, one other one among Wexner’s shut contacts is coping with his personal allegations of sexual abuse.
In October, Jeffries and his life associate Smith, in addition to one other man, Jim Jacobson, had been taken into custody one 12 months after the style mogul was accused of sexually exploiting male fashions in a lawsuit.
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Prosecutors declare that some victims had been led to consider they’d obtain modeling alternatives at Abercrombie in the event that they went together with Jeffries’ sexual calls for.
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The indictment accuses Jeffries and Smith of getting intercourse with the fashions for seven years. Jacobson allegedly traveled “all through the US and Internationally” with a view to recruit the victims.
Based on prosecutors, Jacobson would strain males into performing intercourse acts on him in what was labeled as a “tryout” by prosecutors.
The fashions had been solely allowed to attend the intercourse occasions, which had been even be attended by Jeffries, after they did what Jacobson needed.
Jeffries, Jacobson, in addition to Smith, are additionally accused of working a “referral system” that rewarded the male fashions who recruited others to fulfill with Jacobson. At instances the fashions must lie in regards to the precise nature of the assembly with a view to earn their rewards.
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Abercrombie & Fitch claims to be investigating the allegations.
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Prosecutors declare that some victims had been led to consider they’d obtain modeling alternatives at Abercrombie in the event that they went together with the sexual calls for. Jeffries can be accused of threatening to finish the boys’s modeling careers if they didn’t observe via.
Within the indictment, it alleges the fashions had been ordered to “put on costumes” and “use intercourse toys to arrange for explicit sexual acts”. They had been additionally ordered to vary their appears for Smith and Jeffries.
Victims had been injected with a “prescription-grade erection-inducing substance for the aim of inflicting the boys to interact in intercourse acts during which they had been in any other case bodily incapable or unwilling”, prosecutors declare
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The investigation into Jeffries and the opposite two males started after a number of alleged victims filed a lawsuit in 2023.
Brittany Henderson, an lawyer who represented a few of the alleged victims, responded to the arrests in a press release, and referred to as it “monumental for the aspiring male fashions who had been victimized by these people.”
She added that their “combat for justice doesn’t finish right here. We stay up for holding Abercrombie and Fitch answerable for facilitating this horrible conduct and making certain that this can not occur once more.”
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Jeffries denied any wrongdoing.
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Jeffries and Smith deny any wrongdoing, and Abercrombie & Fitch denies information of the intercourse events, nevertheless, they declare to be investigating the allegations.
Abercrombie and Jeffries acquired backlash following Netflix’s 2022 documentary White Scorching: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, which explores the rise in reputation of the shop beneath Jeffries’ management.