Leslie Wexner

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands and longtime Epstein benefactor, is the subject of formal congressional and civil legal investigations in February 2026. Newly unredacted DOJ documents — including a 2019 FBI Criminal Investigative Division internal memorandum — name Wexner as one of four identified co-conspirators in Epstein's sex trafficking operation, alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Lesley Groff. A second 2019 FBI document listed him as a 'secondary' co-conspirator, noting 'there is limited evidence regarding his involvement.' The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed and deposed Wexner for six hours in a closed-door session in New Albany, Ohio on February 18, 2026. During that deposition, Wexner denied any wrongdoing, stating he was 'naïve, foolish, and gullible' to trust Epstein, that he 'never witnessed nor had any knowledge of Epstein's criminal activity,' and that he 'did nothing wrong.' He claimed he severed ties with Epstein in 2007 after discovering Epstein had stolen from his family. Democrats on the committee — including Rep. Robert Garcia and Rep. Stephen Lynch — sharply rejected his testimony, with Garcia stating no single person provided more financial support for Epstein's crimes than Wexner. Separately, a federal judge in the Southern District of Ohio ordered Wexner to testify within 60 days in an Ohio State University abuse survivors' civil lawsuit, where his tenure as an OSU board member overlapped with documented abuse by campus doctor Richard Strauss. Wexner's name appears over 1,000 times in the released Epstein files. He has not been charged with any crime, and his legal representative noted a U.S. attorney previously informed him he was 'neither a co-conspirator nor target in any respect.'