Eleven women filed suit in March 2026 against Victoria's Secret founder Les Wexner, accusing him of funneling $200 million and prime real estate to Jeffrey Epstein and actively enabling his sex trafficking empire.
The plaintiffs filed their civil action on March 6, 2026, in New York Supreme Court against Wexner personally, his Nine East 71st Street Corporation and the Wexner Foundation, bringing claims under the Gender Motivated Violence Act. They allege that Wexner supplied approximately $200 million over two decades from 1987 to 2007, plus access to key assets including a Manhattan townhouse at 9 East 71st Street used for abuse between 1998 and 2011.
Wexner, the founder of L Brands and the former parent company of Victoria's Secret, was Epstein's most important financial client. Epstein managed Wexner's money for years, an arrangement through which, prosecutors and investigators later documented, Epstein amassed vast wealth and power. The FBI at one point listed Wexner as a potential co-conspirator in the Epstein matter, a detail that has fueled years of demands for elite accountability.
Wexner's team has denied the allegations, calling the payments legitimate fees for financial services and asserting that Wexner had no knowledge of Epstein's wrongdoing. The billionaire has long maintained that he cut ties with Epstein in 2007 after discovering that Epstein had misappropriated funds from him.
The lawsuit marks a significant escalation in the long-running effort by Epstein's victims to hold his enablers accountable. Dozens of survivors have won settlements from Epstein's estate, banks and others connected to the financier's network. A victory against Wexner — one of America's richest retail magnates — would be the most prominent such case yet against a private individual, and the case is expected to draw intense scrutiny to the decades-long relationship between the two men.
The case arrives amid a broader wave of litigation targeting figures in Epstein's orbit. Banks, estates and associates have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements to survivors in recent years, and each new filing has intensified public pressure for full accountability. Wexner has long been the most prominent living individual linked to Epstein's finances, and the lawsuit's use of the Gender Motivated Violence Act gives the plaintiffs a legal avenue that did not exist when many of the alleged acts occurred. How the New York courts handle the claims could set a precedent for future cases against other powerful enablers. Legal experts say the Wexner case could become the most consequential civil action yet to emerge from the Epstein saga, testing how far the courts are willing to go in assigning responsibility to those who financed and sheltered the financier's operation.