Former Abercrombie CEO arrested in sex trafficking investigation

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Former Abercrombie CEO arrested in sex trafficking investigation
Mike Jeffries, his partner and another man were arrested Tuesday.
ByJames Hill and Aaron Katersky
October 22, 2024, 8:45 AM

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his partner Matt Smith and a third man, Jim Jacobson, were arrested Tuesday as part of a criminal sex trafficking investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.

The investigation involved whether the men sexually exploited and abused young men at parties they hosted in the United States and around the world, the sources said.

Federal prosecutors acknowledged the investigation in January after alleged victims filed a civil lawsuit a year ago. ...

ABC News

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Abercrombie & Fitch investigates claims that its ex-CEO exploited men at sex events
Updated October 4, 202310:42 AM ET
ByEmily Olson
NPR

Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. has launched an investigation into claims that its former CEO Mike Jeffries sexually exploited men at lavish parties hosted around the world.

The accusations, which were first reported by the BBC, place Jeffries at the helm of several sex events, for which he hired a middleman to recruit participants with the prospect of becoming a model for what was once one of America's top teen outfitters.

Here's an overview of what we know.
What are the accusations against Jeffries?

The BBC says it spoke with eight men who engaged in or witnessed sex acts at parties hosted by Jeffries and his partner, Matthew Smith, from the years 2009 to 2015. Each of the men was paid thousands of dollars in cash after the parties, the BBC reported. ...

In 2003, Black, Latino and Asian American employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company claiming that minority applicants were discouraged from applying or kept out of the public eye in undesirable positions. The company denied wrongdoing and later settled for $40 million.

Around the same time, it discontinued A&F Quarterly, its magazine catalog that famously ran photos of (mostly white) models cavorting half-clothed or even completely naked, alongside articles with not-so-subtle headlines, like "Group Sex."  ...

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/03/1203263139/abercrombie-fitch-mike-jeffries-scandal

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Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries arrested on sex trafficking charges
Jeffries, along with two associates, were arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, New York prosecutors announced Tuesday morning.
 Oct. 22, 2024, 9:19 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 22, 2024, 2:47 PM EDT
By Jonathan Dienst, Tom Winter and Marlene Lenthang

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries, has been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Jeffries has been arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two other associates, Matthew Smith of West Palm Beach and James Jacobson of Wisconsin, were also arrested in connection with sex trafficking charges.  ...

A federal indictment alleges Jeffries — along with Smith, his romantic partner, and Jacobson, who was described as a recruiter — operated an "international sex trafficking and prostitution business” from 2008 to 2015.

It alleges that they organized “sex events” in England, France, Italy, Morocco, St. Barts and New York for Jeffries, Smith and “others.” They “employed coercive, fraudulent and deceptive tactics in connection with the recruitment, hiring, transportation, obtaining, maintaining, solicitation and payment of the men to engage in commercial sex.”

The men who attended the events allegedly were led to believe that it could lead to modeling opportunities or help their careers or “that not complying with requests for certain acts during the Sex Events could harm their careers.” ...

It alleges that they organized “sex events” in England, France, Italy, Morocco, St. Barts and New York for Jeffries, Smith and “others.” They “employed coercive, fraudulent and deceptive tactics in connection with the recruitment, hiring, transportation, obtaining, maintaining, solicitation and payment of the men to engage in commercial sex.”

The men who attended the events allegedly were led to believe that it could lead to modeling opportunities or help their careers or “that not complying with requests for certain acts during the Sex Events could harm their careers.” ...

NBC News

 

[Free Vulcan]

I can understand if you like it and have to pay for it, but a corporate CEO doing this kind of beyond disgusting, criminal sex ring stuff? WTH?

People are losing their minds.

[Smokin Joe]

I can understand if you like it and have to pay for it, but a corporate CEO doing this kind of beyond disgusting, criminal sex ring stuff? WTH?

People are losing their minds.

The whole time I'm reading this, I'm recalling Tucker's interview with Elon Musk, who spoke about the reason so many billionaires were backing Kamala. He postulated that many are petrified that Epstein's list might be made public if Trump wins.