For decades, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was one of the closest friends of Victoria’s Secret billionaire Les Wexner.
The late con, who in August 2019 at 66, committed suicide in the jail cell of a Manhattan federal detention center while awaiting trial in his sex-trafficking case, once joked that he and the retail baron “share a brain.” Wexner has since claimed complete ignorance of Epstein's sexual misdeeds.
But in the forthcoming Hulu docuseries “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” associates of the unlikely duo say the two were bound by more than ambition.They each needed the other in order to survive.
While the clothing tycoon, credited in the doc as the inventor of fast fashion, amassed a net worth of more than $5 billion via his throng of trendy apparel shops, Epstein, whom Wexner anointed as his money manager, had a lot less to offer on paper.
Barry LevineAuthor of Epstein expose “The Spider”
“When Les Wexner met Jeffrey Epstein, he apparently remarked that [Epstein] was so exciting.”
Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his sizable fortune. Shortly thereafter, Epstein became a notorious elbow rubber to the aristocratic likes of Prince Andrew, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump and tech whiz Bill Gates.
Wexner even brokered a $3.5 million deal for Epstein to purchase a guest house located on his massive private property in New Albany, Ohio.
It was at that house that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly sexually assaulted and imprisoned aspiring artist Maria Farmer in 1996. However, no arrests were made following the alleged attack.
Read more about the orignal series airing now on Hulu.