Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO charged with sex trafficking over a dozen victims: Prosecutors
abcnews.go.com
The investigation involved whether the men sexually exploited and abused young men at parties they hosted in the U.S. and around the world, the sources said.
  • citrusface@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    2 months ago

    Oh man, the dude that used photos of practically naked teenagers to decorate his stores is a creepy fuck? I never would have guessed.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      78·
      2 months ago

      His lawsuit accused Jeffries, Smith, Jacobson and Abercrombie itself of luring attractive young men under the guise of making them an Abercrombie model and then forcing them to take drugs and perform sex acts.

      Not just that, he used that very business as bait.

      • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        36·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, Netflix released a documentary a few years ago called “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” that partially addressed what a fucking sleazy guy Mike Jeffries is. While it didn’t get into any claims related to this news, it definitely made it clear that he’s an asshole and solely responsible for Abercrombie’s pivot from being an outdoors oriented clothing brand to selling wildly unrealistic body standards to teenagers at malls in the 2000s. It’s been awhile, but from what I recall, nobody interviewed in the documentary had anything nice to say about him.

        And the irony is, Mike Jeffries looks like Gary Busey having a bad hair day, but he would’ve taken one look at me when I was 15 and been like “I don’t want him wearing our clothes, he’s too short and he’s got acne. Gross.” That’s the kind of prick he is. He despises anyone that doesn’t meet his standard of beauty and genuinely did not want “ugly” people wearing A&F.

        So I can’t say I’m all that surprised to learn he was doing much more horrific shit behind the scenes, too. And now with this news breaking, I’m just starting the count-down until he gets his own multi-part episode of Behind The Bastards.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          11·
          2 months ago

          Oh I remember back in the day how A&F got away with only hiring “pretty” people to staff their stores by referring to them as “models.”

          • Samvega
            1·
            2 months ago

            Mike Jeffries is also a model. A model asshole.

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      50·
      2 months ago

      There’s actually been research showing that CEO and other senior executive roles tend to attract a disproportionate amount of people with psychopathic tendencies when compared to the general population.

      Here’s an article about it.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Being rich enables rapists. There are plenty of average rapists, but they don’t have whole networks grooming victims. And they don’t make more than the local news when they get caught.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      One of the things I have observed is that wealthy people lack empathy for others. Its one of the reasons they make money so easily. When you don’t care about anyone but yourself its easy to screw someone over. The same lack of decency would make raping someone easy.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    2 months ago

    I hope all these sleazy motherfuckers are sweating hard right now. It’s been decades of allegations, civil lawsuits, etc all around the rich and famous. Now the chickens are coming home to roost in the form of FBI raids. Lock them up.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    2 months ago

    His lawsuit accused Jeffries, Smith, Jacobson and Abercrombie itself of luring attractive young men under the guise of making them an Abercrombie model and then forcing them to take drugs and perform sex acts.

    Woah, that’s… bad.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Sort of reminds me way back when the company still existed that when we went to Sears, my dad would ask what happened to Roebuck. I think Sears killed Roebuck and just covered the whole thing up by gaslighting everyone into thinking there never was a Roebuck.