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Mega Edition: How Jeffrey Epstein Ushered In The Fall Of Victoria's Secret (Part 1) (5/12/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: This morning, we're going to continue pulling on the less
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Wexner Jeffrey Epstein thread. Wexner gave Epstein complete and utter,
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an unfettered access to the victorious secret girls. Epstein ran
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around like he was in charge of everything, and everybody
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thought he he was. I mean, he had the power
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of attorney over Wexner. He controlled his finances. So when
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Epstein showed up and started talking to these girls and
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running his trash on them to get them to do
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what he wanted, well he would use Wexner's name. Wexner
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knew this. Everybody was aware of this. How come nobody
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stepped in and stopped it? How come nobody stopped the
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abuse of these girls and the exploitation of these models.
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Isn't that Wexner's job? Isn't he the owner? Doesn't the
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buck stop there? But in this new society that we're
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living in, it seems that all of these rich, powerful
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people never have to pay the price, no matter what,
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no matter their associations, no matter what they're accused of,
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they never pay the price. They continue to get away
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with the same things they've been getting away with forever.
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Is anybody gonna stop them? Is anybody in the Justice
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Department ever going to stand up and say enough is enough. Well,
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if there's ever going to be a time, this will
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be it, because this story, this situation, this whole entire case,
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this is the kind of case where you have to
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take a stand. There's no sitting on the fence in
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this case. There's no well I don't really know what
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was going on or no. There's good and there's bad
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in this case, and it is black and white, and
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there's no time to sit it out. Everybody needs to
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be engaged in this case. Everybody needs to be aware
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of what is going on. And that is what we're
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doing right here on this podcast. Every day when we
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do another one of these daily jobs or we do
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one of these updates, we find another piece of news
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out that discussed us and just completely lets us know
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how morally bankrupt these people truly are. So we're going
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to jump into this article, but before I do that,
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if you would like to contact me, you could do
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that at Bobbycapucci at ProtonMail dot com. That's Bo b
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b Y c ap u Cci at ProtonMail dot com.
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All right, let's jump into this article and see what
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it has to say. The article is from the Daily
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Mail and the headline is Victoria's Sitister's Secret. As the
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lingerie firm cancels its famous fashion show, we reveal how
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Jeffrey Epstein exploited his friendship with its billionaire boss to
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target models, including one who appeared in Baywatch for sex.
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For Alicia Arden, the chance to model for Victoria's Secret
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sounded like a dream come true? How many girls have
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we heard this from? Right This is a similar story
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right off the bat, Then aged twenty six and with
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an appearance on the hit TV show Baywatch behind her,
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the brunette actress had been invited to meet a man
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by the name of Jeffrey Epstein who promised he could
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get her to get her work with the lingerie giant. Well,
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of course he could. He was Wexner's best friend. He
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was in charge of everything. So when Wexner says, oh,
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I didn't know anything about Eddie that you know he
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is a straight up a liar, liar, liar. Back then,
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more than twenty years ago, the name Epstein did not
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ring any warning bells, but everyone knew the US underwear chain,
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whose roster of models included some of the world's most
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beautiful women was a very big deal, Miss Arden was,
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she would recall, so determined to make the right impression
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that she bought Victoria's Secret lingerie to pose for a
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set of photos, which he sent to Epstein's New York office.
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He then invited her to a beachside hotel in California. So,
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if he's never been an employee of el Brands, if
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he's never been an employee of Victoria's Secret, as the
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statement said in the article you read recently, then why
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is she sending her stuff to him? Why is she
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sending applications and resumes and photos to Jeffrey Epstein? Does
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he have to run everybody through the casting couch like?
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Is good? Buddy Harvey Weinstein did? Is that what was
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going on over there? Mister les Wexner? I knocked on
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the door and went in the room, she told The
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Daily Mail in an exclusive interview this week. He was
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very nice. He was very nice in the beginning and
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looked at my portfolio. When you go on an audition
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for something like this, they want to see your body. Yeah,
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well that's perfect for Jeffrey Epstein. This is his perfect
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way in right. You know what reminds me of this
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whole scenario. Have you ever seen the movie Eight Millimeter
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and James Gandalafini's part in it when he was like
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the scuzzy porn guy and he has the girls coming
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into his office and Nicholas Cage sets up shop from
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across the street and he's watching what that's going on. Yeah,
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that's what Jeffrey Epstein reminds me of in this whole situation.
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James gandala Fini's character from Eight Millimeter. I was in
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very little clothing, like a swimsuit type bra and a
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top over it and underwear and a short little skirt
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so he could see my legs. He said he liked
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the photos, and he said he'd love to get a
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picture in the Victoria's Secret catalog. He said, you know,
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you look really good. Your body looks really good. I
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think I just need to see it better. Doing as requested,
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she moved closer, only for Epstein to start manhandling her again.
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We hear about this guy manhandling women. How nobody knew,
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nobody knows that this is what his mo was right.
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I highly doubt that that's the case. And if it
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is the case, Les Wexner, you're one dumbass MF. He
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started to take off my top. Then he moved down
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to my skirt and was trying to take that off
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and was touching my hips and buttocks. She said, I
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was pushing his hands off me. I was pushing them
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down and pushing them away, but he was bigger than me.
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It's chilling to read these accounts, right.
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Speaker 2: This poor girl.
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Speaker 1: How dare this guy, I mean, how dared jed this
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guy Wexner have this monster in his employ and give
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him access, unfettered access to these girls by chance. Epstein
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was momentary momentarily distracted by a phone call, allowing Miss Arden,
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by then in tears, fearing she was going to be raped,
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to flee the meeting. Deeply shaken, she immediately went to
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a nearby police station, subsequently filing a report for sexual battery.
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That report is one of the earliest known police records
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of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Epstein. So this
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is years and years and years ago, one of the
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first allegations made. And who is the person who offered
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him access, who enabled this whole entire situation to occur?
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You got it, folks, are good friend. Les Wexner isn't
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he a hell of a guy. I wiled it because
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I thought he was doing it to other girls and
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touching other girls, and I could have been raped myself.
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He told me he worked for Victoria's Secret and he
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was misrepresenting the brand. I wanted to file that. Well,
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he worked for Victoria's Secret. How many people has to
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come out and say that that He said he had
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worked for Victoria's Secret. Of course, Wesner says, no, he did.
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He never worked for us at all. Well, he had
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the power of attorney over you. He was making investments
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in your name. Pretty much. Seems like he was an
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employee of yours or or you guys were partners. But tragically,
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no action was taken against Epstein, meaning miss Arden's worst
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fears would be realized. A string of women have recently
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come forward to reveal how they too were lured into
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Epstein's clutches by the promise of work with Victorious Secret.
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Of course, the work never materialized. Instead, they were used
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and abused by the billionaire financier pedophile. What is now
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emerging is the extraordinary relationship Epstein had with the boss
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of torre a Secret, a man called Les Wexner eighty
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two founder and chief executive of parent company l Brands
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and whose friendship Epstein exploited. I don't believe that. I
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think that's the cover story. I think you're giving Wexner
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too much credit with that. I think that they were
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in on it together. That's my personal opinion. That's where
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the evidence is leading me. Nobody could be as dumb
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as Wexner is claiming to be. Many believe it was
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through their relationship that Epstein gained a foothold in the
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world of the rich and famous. Now that was Gilayn Maxwell,
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but Wexner certainly did help, and as everyone now knows,
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it was an entree that would make full and terrible
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use of Note for example, that the now infamous seven
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story Manhattan mansion where Prince Andrew was photographed visiting in
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twenty ten, two years after Epstein was convicted of procuring
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underage girls for sex, was originally Wexner's, And it seems
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even Epstein's a parent, pimp and close friend of Prince
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Andrew Gilay Maxwell, would lure young women into Epstein's web
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by boasting of his links to Victoria's secret So is
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that not enough? Guys? Is that not enough? We have
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everything we know about Wexner, everything we've talked about in
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the last few days, and now you had the cherry on.
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Speaker 2: Top allll of these girls that worked for a Victoria's
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Secret who were getting abused by Jeffrey Epstein because now
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remember there is an important part.
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Speaker 1: It's happening because Wexner allowed it to happen. In August,
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Epstein committed suicide, allegedly in jail where he was awaiting
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trial for sex trafficking, but despite his death, repercussions from
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his sick lifestyle continue to reverberate. Wexner has insisted he
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was unaware of Epstein's crimes and cut ties with him
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as soon as he found out about them. Wait a minute,
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I thought he cut ties with him after Wexter that
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after Epstein stole money from him. Which is it there?
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Wexy Wexner in stores, sales are down, jobs have been cut,
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and two weeks ago it was announced its annual televised
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show would be canceled for the first time in almost
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twenty five years. And we've discussed that. We talked about that,
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we talked about how this whole Epstein case was the
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reason that it was being canceled. There's no uh, there's
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no accountability, mind you, But it's being canceled because there's
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so much negative press about it at this point. Previous pageants,
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which saw the world's most sought after models like Tyra Banks,
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Heidi Klumb and Gazelle bunching Sachet down the catwalk and
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outfits that left nothing to the imagination, invariably made global headlines.
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Not anymore to a generation of women invested in the
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me too movement. Yeah well, if they were so invested,
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let me pause real quick, if everyone was so invested,
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it wouldn't just be us going crazy about this case,
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all right, it would be everybody in the country. But
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people are still too busy watching this, this sham of
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an impeachment, the sham of a trial. And by the way,
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two of the those witnesses called for that impeachment hearing
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worked at universities that accepted money from Jeffrey Epstein. So
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how about that for their moral hill, how about that
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for their ivory tower. You see, folks, all these people
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are the same, all of these degenerates in the deep State.
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They're all sick and playing their own games. So I
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think that the people that are the most vocal about
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the Me Too movement? Where are you now? There's nobody
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marching in the streets for Virginia Roberts. Where are all
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the pink hats? What's happened to all? What's happened to
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the movement? Instead, consumers have turned to rivals who have
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embraced female empowerment and diverse body types. As one commentator
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recently observed, Victoria's Secret was founded during one sexual revolution.
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It's not clear it'll make it through the next one.
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And I think it's time has passed probably anyway, Victoria's Secret, right, nobody?
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You know? Come on those days are it's the inn
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there's with the internet now people can go on there
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and they can look at the club they want to buy.
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They don't need to see this victorious secret fashion show,
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these girls modeling running down the walkway anymore. But I
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don't think people are into that kind of stuff that much.
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I mean, you know, obviously there's a market for it,
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but I don't think the people in general really care.
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What people care about is answers in these cases. Now
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people want to know why Less Wexner's still running around
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amidst such a climate. You can see how the links
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to Epstein could have struck such a body blow to
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the company. To be clear, Epstein never worked for Victoria's
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Secret nor hired their models as he claimed. Yet Okay,
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as far as we know, so, they couldn't cook the books.
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If girls are sending their resume to him and their pictures,
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obviously there's word of mouth going around that, yo, Jeff's
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the guy. Send it to Jeff, Well, he'll get us
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hooked up. The Angels as the Angels, as their models
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became known, were always sourced from agencies. And there is
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nothing to suggest that Wexner authorized Epstein to recruit models.
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There's nothing in so there's no evidence that he had
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power of attorney and all this other stuff, but there's
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nothing to suggest that he was that he authorized Epstein
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to recruit models. I don't believe that. I think that's
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a lie. One Angel, Heidi Klum, was photographed in two
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thousand with Prince Andrew and Gilane Maxwell at a hooker's
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and pimp's Halloween party. Donald Trump was there as well.
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A year later, she launched the first televised Victoria's Secret
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fashion show, wearing a jewel encrusted bra worth twelve and
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a half million dollars. By this time, Victoria's Secret was
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worth an excess of two billion dollars, with more than
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six hundred and fifty stores across America. It had come
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a long way from its early days in nineteen seventy seven,
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when it was established by US businessman Roy Raymond, who
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was inspired after a bad experience in the lingerie section
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of a department store. The offerings weren't risky enough, and
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the saleswoman seemed uncomfortable with his presence. He would recall.
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In nineteen eighty two, Wexner, the son of a Russian immigrant,
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came across one store on a business trip to San Francisco,
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his company, then called the Limited Ran Clothing Stores. He
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saw potential in Victoria's Secret, which inside was like a
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Victorian brothel with red velvet sofas. As he later described it,
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I didn't I hadn't seen anything like it in the US. Yeah,
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I bet you, I bet you did. Like that how
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it had a little brothel action to it on there
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less sicko. He purchased it for just one million dollars. Today,
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his personal fortune is put at some by at is
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put at some five billion dollars, and with that money,
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came Epstein. According to The New York Times, the pair
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were introduced in the mid to late nineteen eighties when
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Wexner was looking to diversify his investments. Yeah, I bet
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he's I bet he got a little bit more diversification
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than he bargained for. Huh. Epstein, who had worked at
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bear Stearns the investment bank, was given the role of
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managing Wechner's fortune and providing financial advice. He had no
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other clients, no resume, but he was given control of
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the fortune and financial advice. Hmm. Interesting he would be going.
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He would go go on to become more than a
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mere money man, winning praise from his mentor as a
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most loyal friend with excellent judgment and unusually high standards.
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Could could Wexner be any more of a poor judge
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of character unusually high standards? I guess maybe when you
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run in a circle of Sikoh's, somebody has to be
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the guy with the highest standards. And if that's Jeffrey Epstein,
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boy oh boy, is your circle e ft. He held
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that power for the next sixteen years, during which time
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a number of valuable assets previously previously owned by Wexner
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passed to Epstein, including that Manhattan mansion Prince Andrew memorably
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described as a convenient place to stay in his crushing
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Newsnight interview. The property was bought in nineteen eighty nine
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by mister Wexner for thirteen point two million dollars, then
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a record price for a Manhattan house. Epstein moved moved
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in when mister Wexner decided to remain in Columbus, Ohio,
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where his company is based. Epstein told The New York
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Times in nineteen ninety six that he own the property,
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but the transaction records do not appear online in New
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York City records. It has been claimed that he paid
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twenty million dollars for it. It has also been reported
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that a business control by Epstein obtained a Boeing seven
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twenty seven, dubbed the Lolita Express. As he became. As
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has become clearer, Epstein used the trappings of wealth to
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target young women and all with Wexner's enabling. A number
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of them claim to have been enticed into his orbit
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by offers of work with Victoria's secret. But in nineteen
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ninety five, two years before Epstein's approach to Miss Arden
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in America, he tried a similar tactic with British socialite
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Adelia King, aged just twenty. The striking blond had been
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approached at a social event in London by Gilan Maxwell,
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a woman she'd never met before. Do you see the
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pattern yet, folks? I know you guys do, but everyone,
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if you're just tuning in for the first time, there
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is a serious pattern, all right. And it starts with
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Gilan Maxwell luring these girls into the orbit. And it
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happens time and time again. She told me to be
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at Clarages at eight pm and asked for a mister
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Jeffrey Epstein's suite, she recalled, So I did, Who wouldn't.
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It was Victoria's secret. Again, it was Victoria's secret. So
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it's not like Epstein was running around saying this and
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nobody knew about at blob blah blab blah blah blah.
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All right, everybody knew. Wexner knew that he was using
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Victoria's secret as his as his little trap, his little
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enticement for these girls. Epstein opened the door to his suite,
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sat down on his sofa and looked through my portfolio
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and then instructed me to pose in a degrading way.
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And said he'd be in touch. She said he never was.
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But days later, attending a party, Miss King Now, a
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forty five year old mother of two who recently featured
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on a reality show Ladies of London, learned what the
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pair were really After writing about her experience on her
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Instagram account this summer, she explained, I told friends at
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a dinner to at dinner about my encounter with her
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and at and they told me she recruited women for
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threesomes with them both. There you go. You know, look,
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this is everybody knows. But the authorities they know, they know.
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What are they waiting for? Is the question? Who is
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telling them not to arrest these people? I was in
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shock how I'd been so stupid, But I believe that
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dinner saved me from something far worse. Not everyone had
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such a lucky escape. Just weeks ago, another woman came
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forward to say she too had been seduced into Epstein's
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clutches by promises of a modeling career. We have tons
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of this now, and how is Wexter not being called
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on the carpet by the American media over this? In
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a lawsuit seeking damages against the dead man's estate, the
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woman who has not been identified, says she met him
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in late nineteen ninety nine. Epstein offered her a position
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modeling with Victoria's secret The legal paper state he explained
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that he was friends with Les Wexner, the chief executive
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of Victoria's secret parent company. Hello, Rico case, this is
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Bobby calling. Where are you? How come you haven't been
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slapped on? These sons of bitches. The woman claimed she
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was forced to give Epstein sexual massages at his mansion
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in New York and at his Palm Beach residence. According
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to the documents, she finally escaped after she was simultaneously
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sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell, it should be noted,
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has long denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged
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with any crimes. Yeah, it must be nice to be
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Robert Maxwell's daughter. It must be nice to be protected
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by intelligence, because that's the only reason why Gillaine Maxwell
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isn't locked up by now? Right? How else? What other
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reasoning is there? Can anyone give me a logical reason
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why this monster is not in prison, why she's not
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behind bars? Anyone having any logical reasons? Anyone in the back?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: Oh okay. Another woman a claim she had been attacked
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by Epstein. Is Maria Farmer, an art graduate who once
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worked for Epstein manning the front door of his New
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York mansion recording who came and went In the summer
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of nineteen ninety six, Miss Farmer, then twenty six, claims
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she was assaulted in one of Epstein's houses in a, Ohio.
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This property, too, had been previously owned by mister Wexner
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and was part of an exclusive estate developed by him.
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He and his wife, Abigail themselves owned a large mansion nearby.
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As Farmer claims that the first time she heard the
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Wexner name was when Epstein told her that Les Wexner
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loved him. According to an affidavit filed earlier this year
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by Miss Farmer, it was while in Ohio that Epstein
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and Maxwell sexually assaulted her, and we talked yesterday. We
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had the letter that the Ohio State Wrestlers wrote in
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defense of Miss Farmer in demanding that their trial starts
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or an investigation begins. I mean they asked me to
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come into a bedroom with them and then proceeded to
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sexually assault me against my will, she claimed. Miss Farmer
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claimed Wexner's security staff refused to let her leave for
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twelve hours. Back in New York, police there told her
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to call the FBI, which she did, but said that
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to her knowledge, no action was taken against Epstein or
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Maxwell Well. Following Epstein's arrest on sex trafficking charges, Wexner
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sought to distance himself from from his former right hand man.
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He made it clear he had several ties with Epstein
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in two thousand and seven, after the financier was first
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accused of sexually abusing underage girls and accused the disgraced
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financier pedophile of misappropriating over forty six million dollars of
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his personal fortune. Yeah right, that he never reported. Somebody
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steals forty six million bands from you and you don't
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report it, Yeah right, bro. Come on. In a letter
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to members of the Wexner Foundation, he wrote, we discovered
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that he had misappropriated vast sums of money from me
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and my family. This was, frankly a tremendous shock, even
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though it clearly pales in comparison to the unthinkable allegations
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against him. Now, he added, I'm embarrassed that, like so
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many others, I was deceived by mister Epstein. I know
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now that my trust in him was grossly misplaced, and
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I deeply regret ever having crossing his path. Well, I
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have to tell you, I'm sure all of these girls
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that were molested under your banner, under your umbrella, mister Wexner,
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feel the same way. I bet they wish they never
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crossed path crossed paths with your monster. The Delhi Brand
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contact excuse me. The Daily Mail contacted l Branch for
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comment on behalf of Victoria's Secret and mister Wexner, but
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received no response. Earlier in the summer, El Brand said
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it had hired lawyers at the direction of its board
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to conduct a thorough review into Wexner's relationship with Epstein.
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All Right, folks, nothing to see here. Let's pack it up.
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We're done reporting on the story. They're gonna investigate themselves.
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We don't need to worry about it. As a spokesperson
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also previously previously said that while mister Epstein served as
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mister Wexner's personal money manager for a period that ended
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nearly twelve years ago, we do not believe he was
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ever employed but employed by, nor served as an authorized
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representative of the company. Nobody just has complete control of everything, right,
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So nobody's listening to him. No, he doesn't have Wexner's ear,
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and all the other management knows that. So Nah, nobody's
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listening to him. Nah, he has no control. Come on man.
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As for Miss Arden, despite her experience at the hands
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of Epstein, she bears Victoria's secret. No ill will I
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don't think they should let one person, Jeffrey Epstein room
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their entire iconic brand. She said, Well, I you know,
23:27
but only time will tell if the angels will ever
23:30
fly high again. Well, I don't know if I agree
23:33
with that last statement about the entire Brian Baying run
23:36
by Jeoffrey Epstein. I don't give a shit about the brand.
23:39
I care about the girls who are abused. I care
23:41
about Miss Arden. I care about every single girl that
23:43
has ever been abused by this sick, depraved monster. And
23:47
what else is just as maddening to me is the
23:49
enabling of it, the covering up of it. Why in
23:52
the world is Wexner still held on a pedestal in
23:55
a place like Columbus. Up, everyone, and welcome back to
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the Epstein Chronicles. Last month, Hulu released a documentary that
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was talking about the relationship between Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein,
24:11
as well as the whole shit show that Victoria's Secret was.
24:18
Well now, the current CEO of Victoria's Secret is saying
24:22
that the documentary had no part to play in its
24:26
terrible quarter, in the fact that people are once again
24:29
looking at Victoria's Secret sideways and that it's all just
24:34
a big non event. Well, the reality is this, there
24:38
were a lot of people who had no idea what
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Victoria's Secret was up to. Under Les Wexner. They had
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no idea the ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and a lot
24:47
of that has to do with the failed legacy media.
24:50
They didn't do their job and tie all of it
24:54
together correctly. And while they dip their toe in here
24:59
in this documentary, it still doesn't even go deep enough.
25:02
There are legitimate questions about Les Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein and
25:06
the relationship that they had, and these questions have yet
25:10
to be answered by anyone in a position of power.
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But the new CEO here, he says that the documentary
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it was a non event, and he says that it
25:24
had low viewership was one reason, and he says that
25:27
their lackluster quarter, well that was to be blamed on
25:30
the economy. Now, I'm sure that there's some of that
25:33
is true. Right. The economy is down, people aren't using
25:37
as much discretionary cash anymore. And honestly, people know that
25:41
Victoria's Secret is synonymous with Epstein and his little elfin
25:46
buddy Les Wexner. So to think that the documentary and
25:51
the fallout from the relationship with Epstein had nothing to
25:54
do with this is a bit foolhardy, in my opinion.
25:58
So let's get into this article from the New York
26:00
Post and let's see what Lisa Fickenshirt has come up
26:05
with headline, Victoria's Secret CEO insists documentary that explored ties
26:12
to Jeffrey Epstein was a non event. Now, look, it
26:16
didn't go deep enough. I will concede that much for sure,
26:21
and none of these documentaries go deep enough. In my opinion,
26:24
there needs to be a real airing out at some
26:26
point of these people. But it certainly was enough to
26:32
open some people's eyes, people who might not have been
26:35
aware of what was going on, people who might not
26:37
have been following what was going on. Now, remember the
26:40
whole entire Epstein story broke in twenty nineteen for the
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most part, and at that time, we were in a
26:47
very very politically divided society like we are now, so
26:52
people were focused on other things. Everybody might not have
26:55
been locked into what was going on and all of
26:58
the small, little moving parts in the Epstein case. So
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a lot of people are playing catch up now. And
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what a documentary like this does is it opens the
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door for that right. The CEO of Victoria's Secret insisted
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that the explosive Hulu documentary in July that chronicle the
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Lingerie Giants links to the dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was
27:21
a non event, instead blaming the retailers lackluster quarter on
27:26
the economy. Victoria's Secret was bracing for a double whammy
27:31
when the Hulu documentary Victoria's Secret, Angels and Demons was
27:34
released on July fourteenth, illustrating the close relationship between Jeffrey
27:39
Epstein and billionaire Les Wexner, the former head of Victoria's
27:43
Secret and its parent L Brands. Now, I don't know
27:47
how anyone can even deny the relationship between these two.
27:52
He was Epstein's only client for how long the Townhouse.
27:58
All of the first hand accounts we have from people
28:01
who knew them, I don't think that it's even a
28:06
doubt at this point how close these two were. The
28:10
question is what were they doing while they were together. Now, remember,
28:15
there's a lot that I know, but there's only so
28:18
much that I can prove, So I try to stick
28:20
with what we can prove here, and what we can
28:23
prove here for sure, without a doubt, undeniably is that
28:26
these two were very, very close, and Jeffrey Epstein did
28:33
have control of his finances. Jeffrey Epstein, let's be real,
28:39
was calling the shots for Less Wexner. So for Victoria's
28:43
Secret to act like Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do
28:46
with the company had no fingerprints on it is laughable
28:50
at best. The documentary claims that while Epstein was drawn
28:56
to Wexner for his money and access to the Victoria's
28:59
Secret models, some of whom he allegedly abused, Wexner saw
29:04
Epstein as sophisticated and glamorous. I don't even understand how
29:08
anyone could look at Epstein and be like, oh, yeah,
29:10
this is this is just you know, the epitome of sophistication.
29:14
Dude was an absolute moron. I mean, let's be very real.
29:19
Sure he might have known how to stash some money,
29:21
and shit, he had no social grace. Wasn't the kind
29:24
of guy that walks in a room and lights the
29:26
place up. And if it wasn't for all of his money,
29:31
let's be very very clear, Okay, dude would have been
29:34
spending a lot of time on porn hub. Epstein also
29:38
gave Wexner financial and legal advice concerning Wexner's prenuptial agreement.
29:43
According to the documentary, what's with all of these rich
29:46
dudes having Epstein involved in their marriage? What is this guy?
29:50
The marriage whisper? All of a sudden, Bill Gates, Les Wexner,
29:55
Leon Black, So, all of a sudden, Jeffrey Epstein is
29:58
a relationship counselor as well? Well, you mean the biggest
30:01
human trafficker in modern time, mister touchy, mister Diddley, mister rapist.
30:08
That's the best you guys can do? Huh? So? What
30:13
else was going on with Epstein and these people? Right?
30:16
It wasn't just financial advice? Stop it. The documentary even
30:23
suggests that the men had a sexual relationship, which Wexner
30:26
categorically denied in a statement through his attorney. Now, I
30:30
have heard this rumor for quite some time and I've
30:33
heard that rumor from some pretty solid sources. But again,
30:36
it's nothing we can prove. I certainly can't anyway, but
30:41
it would make sense, right, There's no doubt that there
30:45
could have been something there, some sort of spark. What
30:48
other reason is there for Wexner being so enraptured by
30:53
Jeffrey Epstein. There's only a couple of options here, folks.
30:59
We were extremely prepared the documentary. Chief executive Martin Waters
31:02
told analysts on Thursday on a Thursday conference call, adding
31:06
that it turned out to be a non event because
31:08
of that very low viewership. This is how they always
31:11
frame it, right, and nobody watched it, no big deal.
31:15
Well it is a big deal, and people did watch it.
31:17
And the people who did watch it, well, they talked
31:19
to their friends about it. And guess what. Nobody's showing
31:22
up at your store tomorrow, all right, at the mall
31:25
to buy a pair of little panties for their daughter
31:28
that says pink on them. Okay, those days are over
31:30
for anyone who's paying attention anyway. Your company was founded
31:36
by sick, twisted people. Just deal with it. That's how
31:40
it goes. Sorry, after years of tarnishing the brand. Water's
31:46
added ninety nine percent of what we do today is
31:48
polishing the brand. We are on a journey. We still
31:51
have more to do, but we're on the right track. Yeah, sure,
31:56
until your shit finds its way until the Walmart bin Right. Look,
31:59
the world of read tell is on its way out,
32:02
and places like Victoria's Secret, they're gonna find themselves in
32:06
a situation where you see some of these other brands
32:09
found themselves, you know where they end up in places
32:12
like Walmart, places like Ross. That's gonna be Victoria's Secret.
32:18
The company said late Wednesday its sales dropped six percent
32:21
to one point five billion in the second quarter end
32:24
of July thirtieth, while comparable sales dropped by eight percent
32:28
compared to a year ago. It also slashed its guidance
32:31
for the year, estimating that sales will decline in the
32:34
mid to high single digit range. Well that's great, because
32:38
guess what that means. The word's getting out And if you,
32:41
if you're a parent, I don't know why you would
32:43
even attempt to buy your kid any clothes from this place.
32:46
This place is disgusting, just the the black mark on
32:51
it from its relationship with Epstein. In the past is
32:53
enough to make me management, said the Lingerie Maker, which
32:58
became an independent company one year ago splitting off from
33:01
L Brands and its sister retailer, Bath and body Works,
33:04
suffered the same fate as other mall retailers over the summer.
33:09
There's no doubt about that. Retailers who rely on brick
33:12
and mortar in the mall, it's becoming a thing of
33:14
the past, and it's happening quickly. There was a day
33:18
where you'd wake up on a weekend when when I
33:20
was younger anyway, and it was right to the mall
33:23
Saturday morning. Oh I gotta go get geared up. Let
33:25
me go get some gear for the night. Let me
33:27
go see if there's any young hot chicks running around
33:30
the food court, you know, fifteen fourteen. That was the
33:35
way it was. Really didn't have anything else to do.
33:37
The Internet was, you know, just coming along. We had
33:41
like AOL chat rooms and shit, but we were still
33:44
going to the mall to hang out. That was the
33:46
place to congregate. Those days are over. I go to
33:49
the mall now to go to the local baseball card
33:52
shop and there's never anybody in there. And the mall
33:55
that I grew up going to it's not even a
33:57
mall anymore. They don't even have any anchor stores. No J. C. Penny,
34:01
no Dillard's, no Macy's, nothing like that. There's like an
34:06
aquarium in there, now a movie theater. It's more like
34:09
a shopping center than an actual mall. So there is
34:14
truth to what he's saying here about all of these
34:17
different retail companies on the way out, Our customer traffic
34:25
acceleration trends aligned generally with what the mall was seeing
34:29
or other retailers, Chief financial officer Tim Johnson said on
34:33
a Thursday earnings call with analysts. Victoria's Secret has been
34:37
revamping its brand image over the past couple of years,
34:40
moving away from its sexualized advertising, adding more diverse models,
34:45
including plus sized women, to its marketing, but consumers are
34:49
less concerned about such factors in a struggling economy. Yeah, look,
34:54
when you're watching your money and you know that Jeffrey
34:56
Epstein had a part of Victoria's Secret, chances are, if
34:59
you're somebody who cares about this kind of thing, you're
35:02
not going to be buying anything here. Low income consumers
35:06
have to fight for every dollar, and fundamentally, our consumer
35:09
is amid the low income consumer. Water said on the
35:12
earnings call, we are very much impacted by the times.
35:16
Anything to use an excuse where he's not wrong for
35:20
the most part, it's just another excuse. You have a
35:23
failed business, my friend. It's never going to be fixed
35:26
no matter how you try to rosie it all up
35:28
for investors and people who might want to buy stock
35:30
or whatever. The party's over. Both Macy's and Nordstrom cut
35:36
their full year guidance this month, citing concerns about consumer spending.
35:40
While mass discounter walmarts that it sells have only grown
35:43
during downturn as more shoppers, including higher income families, seek
35:48
out bargains. It also said that it's apparel sales have fallen.
35:52
Shares of the company, who were up nearly five percent
35:55
to about forty bucks. Nobody shopping at Walmart tells you
36:01
what you need to know about the economy. There's a
36:03
lot of people out there that are trying to sugarcoat
36:05
what's going on, but that doesn't match the reality of
36:09
what the real working class is dealing with the real
36:12
working class. You know, my neighbors, your neighbors, people are struggling.
36:18
One in five, one in six people aren't gonna be
36:20
able to make their power bills. So yeah, nobody has
36:23
any money to go to the mall and buy a
36:25
pair of stupid ass pink sweatpants anymore, especially when your
36:30
company has the disgusting shine on it that it has
36:36
so Victoria's Secret. They're on their way out, folks, and
36:39
if they're not completely insolvent within the next oh, I
36:42
don't know, handful of years, then you can expect to
36:44
see them in bargain bins near you. If you'd like
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