Les Wexner
Billionaire founder of L Brands (Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works). Epstein served as Wexner's sole financial manager from the late 1980s through 2007, controlling all of Wexner's personal finances with "virtually no oversight" under a 1991 power of attorney (EFTA02731082 p.64). The SDNY prosecution memo states that Epstein's stolen fees from Wexner "appears to account for virtually all of Epstein's wealth." In 1998, Epstein sold himself Wexner's Manhattan townhouse at 9 East 71st Street — valued at $55-86 million — for approximately $20 million (EFTA02731069 p.1). This property became the primary site of Epstein's abuse operation until his 2019 arrest. Epstein also sold himself a private plane belonging to Wexner at a deeply discounted price. In 2007, Wexner discovered the theft of "several hundred million dollars" and severed ties; Epstein returned $100 million in January 2008 as a private settlement (EFTA02731082 p.65). However, $46 million of that settlement was routed through Epstein's C.O.U.Q. Foundation to Wexner's YLK Charitable Fund in 2008 (EFTA01654937 p.15). Both Les and Abigail Wexner provided SDNY attorney proffers on July 25, 2019, claiming no knowledge of inappropriate activity (EFTA01656152 p.10). Virginia Giuffre, when asked if Wexner had relevant information about Epstein's abuse of underage girls, said: "I think he has relevant information, but I don't think he'll tell you the truth" (EFTA01657683 p.26). An FBI presentation slide states that a victim "stated Epstein earned his money from having homosexual sex with Wexner" (EFTA01656152 p.17). Epstein used the Victoria's Secret brand name and his relationship with Wexner to recruit victims, telling at least one that "his good friend Les Wexner owned Victoria's Secret" (EFTA02731941). Financial Trust Company fee income collapsed from $66 million in 2006 to $4 million in 2007 when Wexner departed — proving Wexner was Epstein's only real client (EFTA01682059 p.3).
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