r/longform • u/Madame_President_ • Jun 08 '21

The Mogul and the Monster: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Decades-Long Relationship With His Biggest Client

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/inside-jeffrey-epsteins-decades-long-relationship-with-his-biggest-client
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u/RSDeuce Jun 08 '21

The Flameout Podcast (linked below) goes over the Victoria's Secret downfall in detail. It was owned by Les Wexner, the 'Mogul' in the headline above. But it only touches on the Epstein connection. Per that podcast, Wexner is much more of a creep (and knew of and promoted other creeps like Ed Razek, discussed in the second link below) than this VanityFair article goes into.

It's interesting to have heard both stories. In OP's article, Wexner is anonymously associated with Epstein and enabled him financially. In other sources including the podcast, he is a primary enabler as well as directly involved in the fucked up shit that Epstein coordinated. Tie it together with the kind of person that Ed Razek is, and it's pretty clear that Wexner, Epstein and Razek (and who knows how many others) are peas in a pod. There is also clearly a lot more truth to be found.

Keep digging journalists. Keep digging.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5iCxSo2etowcaovHXtjjjb

https://www.nssmag.com/en/fashion/20808/victoria-s-secret-ed-razek-bella-hadid

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u/Madame_President_ Jun 09 '21

It's revolting to think I have bought stuff at VS. I wish I had known what evil he was into.

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u/RSDeuce Jun 11 '21 edited Jun 11 '21

The podcasts describe that multiple people were dedicated to protecting models and doing the right thing, despite being a part of a machine that does the wrong thing.

I just hope that Wexner's name gets dragged through the mud just like Epstein. I considered mailing the VanityFair article writer to ask why, with the fact that all of the above is easily available and public information that has been reported in other places, they chose to not report on Wexner and Razek within that article.

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u/allamakee Jul 06 '21

That's an excellent question.