![]() Musicians with large school-age followings, like Selena Gomez and Justin Beiber, were booked to perform during the segment throughout Pink’s six-year run as part of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Models were directed to pose with infantilizing props like toys, lollipops, and even tricycle handlebars decked out with plastic streamers. Pink became so successful that the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show included a special segment dedicated to the diffusion line. Pink even produced its own toy stuffed animals, which were featured prominently in its ads and marketing. In the documentary, former employees of the corporate office share their discomfort with the way Pink was positioned as a cornerstone of the brand’s ‘cradle to grave’ customer acquisition strategy “by bringing in a steady stream of young customers we can hold for decades,” as described in footage from an internal marketing video featured in the series. In many ways, Pink, the Victoria’s Secret diffusion line launched in 2002 and marketed to school children and college students, signaled the beginning of the end for the company. Unsurprisingly, Wexner’s attorney decried the findings as “salacious and patently false.” ![]() According to Ellison, the investigation found that the records had never been subpoenaed and were proactively provided to Epstein’s defense by the company. Photo: Courtesy of Hulu …ĭespite Wexner’s insistent claims that he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal behavior, documents uncovered in an investigation by the Oregon Attorney General appear to show that L Brands aided Epstein’s legal defense during his 2006 trial by providing employee records of one of his accusers, who had been a Victoria’s Secret employee. Les Wexner, the former owner of Victoria's Secret and the now-defunct L Brands portfolio of companies. However, in 2020 Jerry Merrit, the former security chief at L Brands, confirmed to Vanity Fair that Epstein paid “below market rate,” for the plane. According to Ellison, the transaction was “shrouded in so many shell corporations,” that the amount Epstein paid for the jet is still a mystery. Epstein’s notorious New York City townhouse was sold to him by Wexner he later acquired a private jet from L Brands that he used to traffic the women and children he victimized. The power of attorney is only the beginning of the disgraced financier and sex offender’s entanglement with the company. For example, in 1991, Wexner quietly gave the sex offender “unmitigated control,” over his assets through a notarized power of attorney that allowed Epstein access to Wexner’s 19 trusts and charitable foundations, 20 companies, and investments, as reported by Washington Post staff writer Sarah Ellison, who appeared throughout the three-part series. The documentary positions Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands and its founder damningly for the role it allegedly played in helping Epstein cultivate the access, power, and wealth that enabled his criminal activity. Featuring statements from former Victoria’s Secret models and executives, as well as journalists, Tyrnaeur puts a harsh microscope on company’s demise, which had at least as much to do with Wexner’s ties to the disgraced financier and late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it did the internal culture of misogyny and sexual misconduct, and its blatant failure to adapt to the changing times. Photo: Courtesy of Hulu …Ī new Hulu documentary from journalist-turned-director Matt Tyrnauer shines a critical light on the rise and fall of Victoria’s Secret under Leslie “Les” Wexner, who bought the small mail-order lingerie company in 1982 and made it the billion-dollar crown jewel in his L Brands portfolio within a decade. ![]() A still from a commercial directed by Michael Bay for Victoria's Secret, which is featured in the documentary.
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