The Billionaire Behind Jeffrey Epstein's Fortune
Congressional investigators need to subpoena the records of Leslie Wexner, the Victoria's Secret magnate who enabled Trump's sex-trafficking friend.
[This article first appeared in American Freakshow, under the headline “The Epstein-Wexner Mystery.”]
In the Jeffrey Epstein life drama, it’s tempting to put Ohio native and women’s apparel magnate Leslie Wexner in the role of “little buddy.” He’s often portrayed as the dupe of a world-class criminal. But as Wexner toddles into his dotage behind a high hedge of lawyers, and the House Oversight Committee pokes through the detritus of the criminal’s vast career, it behooves the public interest for the Committee to take a look at the original source of Epstein’s wealth.
Wexner is the gremlin beside Epstein’s Dark Lord. The shy midwestern billionaire made his fortune on cheap fashion for American mall-going teenage girls in the ‘80s, and a decade later, on push-up bras and thongs sexualizing the same cohort of, now, women. For a time, the surest sign of supermodel-dom was a runway strut in stilettos, a Victoria’s S…
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