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Justine Harmon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
270 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

With Victoria firmly in charge, Les Wexner was becoming richer and richer.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

And his fortune didn't only come from Victoria's Secret.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

It came from his other companies, too.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

Lane Bryant, Bath & Body Works, and Abercrombie & Fitch.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

Yep, another brand that targeted hot young things, much like Victoria's Secret.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

What Les did with the brand became such a big story, such an apocryphal NBA wet dream, that you might even remember people talking about it in the social network.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

So in this scene, Mark Zuckerberg is at a nightclub with the guy who founded Napster.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

And that guy is telling him that miracles happen in business when the right guy gets involved.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

As Justin Timberlake's Sean Parker puts it,

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

He comes up with a high-end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

After five years, he sells the company to Leslie Wexner for a big payday.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

Except that wasn't the way the story ended.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

At least not for Roy Raymond.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

While Les Wexner got to work on proving his board wrong and turning Victoria's Secret into a household name, Roy Raymond continued to try and disrupt other marketplaces with varying degrees of success.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

He and his business partner co-founded a store for women who had cancer.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

We offered everything from hair pieces to lingerie, pretty mastectomy lingerie, as opposed to orthopedic.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

type bras we had a salon we had massage we had scarf tying uh people could come in that didn't want to wear a wig that we'd teach them how to do scarves we did makeup and again it was the vision and it was his it was my business but it was his vision did you ever get a sense from him how he felt about victoria's secret after he exited the business

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

The only thing that I know is that the everything changed as it grew.

Infamous
Extra Episode: Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

Yeah.