Person of Interest - Leslie Wexner (Epstein's Mentor and Patron) (pizzagate)

submitted ago by totalrecall

Sometime in October I remember a video by "anonymous" claiming that they were going to release a video they had of Bill Clinton raping a 13 year old at Epstein's. That alleged video never surfaced.

Here is a post containing the anonymous video:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/anonymous-video-bill-clinton-raping-13-yr-old-girl-will-plunge-race-chaos/

What I found curious in the video was the strong connection between Epstein and Leslie Wexner that I haven't seen discussed here.

The anonymous video also goes into detail about a secret group Epstein, Wexner and powerful elites are part of called The Clothing Shop Network. The video claims this secret group is involved with much of what is being discussed here.

Leslie Wexner is chairman and CEO of L Brands, formerly Limited Brands. Limited, Bath and Body Works, Victoria's Secret and more. Probably why the name The Clothing Shop Network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner

I found another article in New York Magazine that details more about Epstein's relationship with Wexner.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index1.html

Another focus of curiosity is the relationship that Epstein has with his patron and mentor Leslie Wexner, founder and chairman of the Columbus, Ohio–based Limited chain of women's-clothing stores.

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Wexner, who is said to be worth more than $2.5 billion by Forbes, became an Epstein client in 1987. "It's a weird relationship," says another Wall Streeter who knows Epstein. "It's just not typical for someone of such enormous wealth to all of a sudden give his money to some guy most people have never heard of.

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Given the secrecy that envelops Epstein's client list, some have speculated that Wexner is the primary source of Epstein's lavish life

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Epstein' s current residence in Manhattan -- a 45,000-square-foot eight-story mansion on East 71st Street -- was originally bought by Wexner for $13 million in 1989. Wexner poured many millions into a full gut renovation, then turned it over to Epstein in 1995 after he got married. One story has Epstein paying only a dollar for it, though others say he paid full market price, which would have been in the neighborhood of $20 million. Epstein then undertook his own $10 million gut renovation (special features: closed-circuit TV and a heated sidewalk in front of the house for melting snow), saying to friends: "I don't want to live in another person's house."

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Epstein also owned a grand house (he has since sold it) near Wexner's opulent manse at the center of the Limited magnate's high-end housing development in New Albany, Ohio. New Albany was a lush sprawl of farmland on the outskirts of Columbus that Wexner, starting in 1988, turned into a rich village of multimillion-dollar Georgian homes surrounding a Jack Nicklaus–designed golf course. It was a massive development project, financed largely by Wexner himself. Epstein was a general partner in the real-estate holding company, called New Albany Property, despite putting only a few million dollars of capital into the project.

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It may be fruitful to look into the Epstein and Wexner connection as well as The Clothing Shop Network.

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Psalm100 ago

Some more about the Epstein connection to Wexner and a mansion in New York City that Wexner might have given to Epstein:

"Every Property Owned by Sleazy Financier Jeffrey Epstein" [including at least two stone buildings]

...His portfolio also includes a "stone fortress" in New Mexico and the Herbert N. Straus Mansion in Manhattan, both of which are mentioned in the current round of allegations.

Often referred to as one of the largest townhouses in Manhattan—possessing 21,000 square feet and seven stories, 45,000 square feet and eight stories, or 50,000 square feet and nine stories, depending on who's describing it and when—the stone mansion at 9 East 71st Street was built in 1933. It was designed by society architect Horace Trumbauer for Herbert N. Straus, one of the heirs to the Macy's department store fortune, who died before it was completed.

In 1961, the mansion became home to the Birch Wathen School, which it remained until Leslie H. Wexner, the founding chairman of the Limited Inc., bought it in 1989 for $13.2M. Wexner hired architect Thierry Despont and interior designer John Stefanidis to help gut-renovate the 40-room home, showing it off in the December 1995 issue of Architectural Digest (sadly, the magazine's online archives don't go back that far). In 1996, the New York Times referred to the sumptuously decorated, expensively renovated pied-à-terre as the latest "puzzling" "status symbol of the ultra rich," when it reported that Wexner never spent more than a few months in the home. This was back when the scarcely used pied-à-terre was a smaller part of the Manhattan real estate makeup.

http://www.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10004040/jeffrey-epstein-property-real-estate-holdings >

http://archive.is/9MX5F

The Curbed article quotes at length from "Home Sweet Elsewhere," a 1996 New York Times article on New York properties owned by wealthy people who spend little time in them, referred to in Curbed as "pied-à-terre" (literally "foot on the ground") properties. David Geffen, Ronald O. Perelman, Steve Jobs and duty-free shop executive Robert W. Miller are also discussed.

...When asked how long Mr. Wexner had occupied the property, Jeffrey Epstein, his protege and one of his financial advisers, replied, "Les never spent more than two months there." Thus the prorated cost of Mr. Wexner's sejours would appear to have been in excess of a million dollars a day.

Visitors described a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink. The house also has a heated sidewalk, a luxurious provision that explains why, while snow blankets the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, the Wexner house (and Bill Cosby's house across the street) remains opulently snow-free, much to the delight of neighborhood dogs...

Reached in Florida last week, Mr. Epstein said that the house was now his.

http://archive.is/G18hZ

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/garden/home-sweet-elsewhere.html

Note, too, that the Limited just announced they are closing all of their stores.

"Surprised shoppers take advantage of Limited's closing sale," 1/8/17

http://myfox28columbus.com/news/local/surprised-shoppers-take-advantage-of-limiteds-closing-sale

http://archive.is/fEHee

Psalm100 ago

And more from the Curbed article - statue of a dog and dog feces:

In 2007, when model Maximilia Cordero filed suit against Epstein for statutory rape and sexual assault (the suit was later dismissed), her lawyer included a description of what has by now become a legendary piece of puerile decor in chez Epstein: "[The] defendant gave plaintiff a tour of his mansion, showing her a huge crystal staircase with a huge crystal ball by the railing, ceiling chandeliers, a lounge room with red chairs, a statute [sic] of a dog with a statute [sic] of dog feces next to it" (emphasis ours).

And from a Vanity Fair article:

The entrance hall is decorated not with paintings but with row upon row of individually framed eyeballs; these, the owner tells people with relish, were imported from England, where they were made for injured soldiers. Next comes a marble foyer, which does have a painting, in the manner of Jean Dubuffet … but the host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it. In any case, guests are like pygmies next to the nearby twice-life-size sculpture of a naked African warrior.

...The office features a gilded desk (which Epstein tells people belonged to banker J. P. Morgan), 18th-century black lacquered Portuguese cabinets, and a nine-foot ebony Steinway “D” grand. On the desk, a paperback copy of the Marquis de Sade’s The Misfortunes of Virtue was recently spotted. Covering the floor, Epstein has explained, “is the largest Persian rug you’ll ever see in a private home—so big, it must have come from a mosque.” Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pinto, who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there is one particularly startling oddity: a stuffed black poodle, standing atop the grand piano. “No decorator would ever tell you to do that,” Epstein brags to visitors. “But I want people to think what it means to stuff a dog.” People can’t help but feel it’s Epstein’s way of saying that he always has the last word.

http://archive.is/AvUiv

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

http://archive.is/AvUiv