Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Guiffre stated she was intercourse trafficked on a number of events to Les Wexner and that the billionaire additionally had intercourse with minors, in keeping with a newly unsealed deposition.
Guiffre made the allegations in a January 16, 2016, deposition that was not too long ago unsealed amongst a trove of court docket information associated to the useless pedophile and his sex-trafficking associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Guiffre, who has stated Epstein and Maxwell abused her and trafficked her to others, together with Prince Andrew, stated within the deposition she was trafficked to Wexner on a number of events, “presumably” greater than 5 however no more than 10.
Guiffre stated that Wexner additionally had intercourse with minors, including she wished “justice to occur” and for Wexner to “personal up for his wrongs.”
A spokesperson for Wexner shared an announcement with Enterprise Insider that stated, “Mr. Wexner was unaware of, and was by no means a participant in, any of the abhorrent habits engaged in by Epstein in opposition to Epstein’s victims, that Mr. Wexner had by no means met Ms. Guiffre, and that any claims on the contrary weren’t true.” The spokesperson added that in 2020, representatives for Wexner denied that he was aware about or concerned in Epstein’s sex-trafficking actions.
Wexner, the founding father of L Manufacturers, which as soon as managed Victoria’s Secret and Bathtub & Physique Works, employed Epstein as a monetary advisor within the Eighties and paid him hundreds of thousands of {dollars} up till the 2000s. In recent times, the 83-year-old has publicly distanced himself from the useless pedophile, telling staff in 2019 that he’d lower ties with Epstein greater than a decade prior. Wexner additionally stated that Epstein had “misappropriated huge sums of cash from me and my household,” at the least $46 million.
Whereas Wexner’s enterprise ties to Epstein had been beforehand identified, particular accusations in opposition to him had not been made public. Throughout a press convention in 2019, lawyer Brad Edwards, who beforehand represented Guiffre and different Epstein victims, stated that based mostly on what they knew, Wexner’s claims of not understanding about Epstein’s sexual actions had been “very extremely doubtless true.”
Edwards did not reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
Enterprise Insider’s Jacob Shamsian beforehand reported that Wexner was doubtless “Doe 183” in redacted court docket paperwork within the lawsuit between Guiffre and Maxwell.
