According to a police report filed in 1997, Jeffrey Epstein posed as a recruiter for Victoria's Secret then attacked an aspiring model in a Santa Monica hotel room
, Arden came forward after hearing about Epstein’s arrest earlier this month and realizing that Epstein was not a modeling scout for Victoria’s Secret, as he claimed to be. He was, however, a close personal friend and money manager for Leslie Wexner, the CEO of L Brands, the company that owns Victoria’s Secret and other clothing brands, including the Limited.
In the mid-1990s, around the time that Arden claims she was assaulted by Epstein, two executives at L Brands discovered that Epstein had been approaching young women by purporting to be a Victoria’s Secret modeling scout, and told Wexner. While Wexner promised to speak with Epstein, the executives said, it was unclear what, if any, action he actually took against his friend.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to a single charge of solicitation of prostitution of a minor. The charge was the result of a plea deal orchestrated by then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, marking a significant reduction from the 2006 sexual abuse charges against Epstein. As part of the conditions of the plea deal, Epstein was required to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to 13 months in prison, much of which he served on work order release from the comfort of his Palm Beach office.
In the intervening years, Epstein has been dogged by a number of sexual abuse lawsuits alleging that he recruited young women and hired them to work as masseuses, only to force them to undress and engage in sex acts with him at his homes. A 2018 investigation identified more than 80 women who had leveled such allegations against Epstein.requests for comment, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
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