Abercrombie & Fitch Sex Creep Jeffries’ ties to Epstein
November 25, 2024, published at 7:30 PM ET
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries has a secret connection with Jeffrey Epstein following his shocking abuse allegation.
The indictment accuses Jeffries and his life partner, Matt Smith, of sexually exploiting male models between 2008 and 2015, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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The 80-year-old was picked by tycoon Les Wexner to run the iconic clothing store in 1992. Wenxer also happened to be the most important financial client of the now deceased pedophile Epstein.
Five years before selecting Jeffries to handle Abercrombie & Fitch, Wexner retained Epstein as his financial guru, giving him power of attorney over his personal affairs. The duo was so close that Epstein’s money management company at one point left one of Wexner’s homes.
Convicted pedophile Epstein was found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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Epstein allegedly groomed women and young girls to his friends and clients. However, Wexner denied having any knowledge of this. He would also cut ties with Epstein completely after pleading guilty in 2008 to sex crimes involving a minor.
Now, another close contact of Wexner’s is addressing his own sexual abuse allegations.
In October, Jeffries and his partner Smith, as well as another man, Jim Jacobson, were taken into custody, a year after the fashion mogul was accused in a lawsuit of sexually exploiting male models.
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The suit accuses Jeffries and Smith of having sex with the models for seven years. Jacobson allegedly traveled “throughout the United States and internationally” to recruit the victims.
According to prosecutors, Jacobson would pressure men to perform sex acts on him in what prosecutors labeled a “tryout.”
The models were only allowed to attend the sex events, which Jeffries also attended, after they had done what Jacobson wanted.
Jeffries, Jacobson and Smith are also accused of operating a “referral system” that rewarded male models who recruited others to meet Jacobson. Sometimes the models had to lie about the real nature of the meeting to earn their reward.
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Prosecutors allege that some victims were led to believe they would get modeling jobs at Abercrombie if they agreed to the sexual demands. Jeffries is also accused of threatening to end the men’s modeling careers if they did not follow through.
The suit alleges that the models were instructed to “wear costumes” and “use sex toys in preparation for certain sexual acts.” They were also instructed to change their appearance for Smith and Jeffries.
Victims were injected with a “prescription erection-inducing substance for the purpose of causing the men to perform sexual acts that they were otherwise physically unable or unwilling to perform,” prosecutors allege.
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The investigation into Jeffries and the other two men began after several alleged victims filed a lawsuit in 2023.
Brittany Henderson, an attorney representing some of the alleged victims, responded to the arrests in a statement, calling it “monumental for the aspiring male models who were victimized by these individuals.”
She added that their “fight for justice does not end here. We look forward to holding Abercrombie and Fitch accountable for facilitating this terrible behavior and ensuring it cannot happen again.”
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Jeffries and Smith deny any wrongdoing, and Abercrombie & Fitch denies knowledge of the sex parties, but they claim to be investigating the allegations.
Abercrombie and Jeffries were criticized after the 2022 Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitchwhich examines the store’s rising popularity under Jeffries’ leadership.