Jeffrey Epstein paid $100mn to Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner in 2008 after the retail billionaire claimed Epstein stole hundreds of millions of dollars from him, according to US prosecutors’ report.
The report said Wexner’s lawyers told prosecutors about the payment from Epstein just days before the sex offender died while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges in 2019.
Wexner’s lawyers met prosecutors on July 25 2019, 16 days before the child sex offender’s death, to offer them information, the report said. They told prosecutors that the lingerie billionaire had allowed Epstein to control all of his personal finances with “virtually no oversight”, and have power of attorney to act on his behalf starting in 1991, according to the report. It said Wexner met Epstein in the 1980s through a mutual friend.