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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO accused of exploiting young men for sex

Mike Jeffries at an Abercrombie & Fitch event in New York in 2005.
Mike Jeffries, who stepped down as CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014, is considered by the company its modern-day founder. Photograph: David Pomponio/Getty Images

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been accused of exploiting young men for sex at events he and his partner hosted in the US and around the world, according to a BBC investigation.

Most of the men also allege that a middleman, who was hired by the fashion brand’s former boss Mike Jeffries, sexually “auditioned” them by requesting or offering to perform oral sex on them, before the young men were introduced to him and his partner, Matthew Smith.

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