Another day, another gut-churning, soul-destroying story of how low some humans will (allegedly) go in order to sexually degrade other humans for their own gratification. Last night’s Panorama accused Mike Jeffries, former boss of the “sex meets Ivy League” fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch, of assaulting young aspiring male models at orgies in his Hamptons retreat, in Marrakech, in Nice, in St Barts, in Manhattan and in Paris. It started grim and got grimmer.
Jeffries – who built the failed company into a $2bn brand but abruptly departed in 2014 after 22 years - and his male partner Matthew Smith refuse to comment on the claims. Their alleged fixer Jim Jacobson, who apparently wears a snakeskin prosthetic over a nose destroyed by bad plastic surgery, claims “[everyone] who attended these events went in with their eyes open”.
