Wexner, L Brands Board Sued for Epstein Ties, Harassment Culture

Jan. 13, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

Leslie H. Wexner and other longtime senior leaders at L Brands Inc. were hit with a shareholder lawsuit in Delaware over the Victoria’s Secret parent’s “entrenched culture of misogyny, bullying and harassment, as well as ties to Jeffrey Epstein and other egregious mismanagement.”

The board “did nothing” to address decades of sexual harassment by top L Brands executives, while the underqualified Epstein inexplicably managed Wexner’s fortune—and while the billionaire sex offender apparently used Wexner’s home “for liaisons with victims,” the suit says.

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre has also “claimed that he directed her to have sex with Mr. Wexner,” and ...

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