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Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had his hooks into Victoria’s Secret billionaire Les Wexner for decades.
Now, a new documentary explores the bizarre relationship between the two men. Epstein — who cops say topped himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking — once said he and Wexner “shared a brain.”
Wexner, 84, has claimed complete ignorance of Epstein’s wide-ranging sex trafficking ring and denied any wrongdoing.
Now, a new three-part Hulu docuseries, Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons, explores the relationship between the Ohio lingerie impresario and the mysterious Epstein.
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“Wexner had the money that Epstein was seeking, and Wexner got from Epstein the glamour and smoothness that he was seeking,” Cindy Fedus-Fields, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret Direct, says in the program.
The doc suggests that while Wexner had a lot (billions) to offer his creepy pal, Epstein for his part only put up his smarmy charm.
But Wexner was taken in by Epstein’s big-city ways and made him his money manager.
“When Les Wexner met Jeffrey Epstein, he apparently remarked that (Epstein) was so exciting,” said Barry Levine, author of Epstein exposé The Spider. “He was everything that Les Wexner thought was lacking in Ohio.”
In the early 1980s, Wexner bought Victoria’s Secret for a paltry $1 million and he was determined to make his mark in the Big Apple.
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“Epstein was extraordinarily mesmerizing and could convince anything of anybody,” Epstein’s former business partner Steven J. Hoffenberg says in the film. “(He was the) master manipulator.”
Not long after meeting, Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney. He also sold the New Yorker his private jet, later christened “Lolita Express” by the New York tabloids.
Ellison added: “There wasn’t a part of Wexner’s empire that Epstein didn’t have access to and didn’t have some ability to control.”
But some of Epstein’s twisted predilections were becoming apparent. In 1993, he was caught posing as a Victoria’s Secret modelling scout to lure young girls into his sick schemes.
One complained to cops about an incident in his California hotel room in 1997. Wexner was reportedly oblivious.
“Wexner told Vanity Fair, in 2003, that Epstein was ‘very smart with a combination of excellent judgment and unusually high standards. Also, he’s always the most loyal friend,’” Washington Post reporter Sarah Ellison, a former special correspondent for Vanity Fair, says in the doc. “Epstein had to have had some kind of hold over Wexner.”
Fedus-Fields added: “Each one have must have fulfilled the need of the other. I’m not at all inferring that it was a sexual need, but there was something there.”
The documentary said Epstein used Wexner’s money to amass his property portfolio, including a Paris apartment and ‘Pedophile Island’ in the Caribbean where he could sexually abuse teenagers.
Epstein hinted to Wexner he had tight ties with the U.S. intelligence community.
But when Epstein was pinched sexually assaulting young girls at his Palm Beach estate, Wexner pulled the pin on their friendship in 2007.
“Being taken advantage of by someone so sick, so cunning, so depraved is something that I’m embarrassed that I was even close to,” said Wexner, who gave Epstein an estimated $400 million.
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