NEW YORK—Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his partner, and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges of luring men into drug-laced, outlandish, and coercive sex parties held around the world by dangling the promise of modeling for the big retailer’s beefcake ads.
For almost 20 years, Jeffries, partner Matthew Smith, and their employee James Jacobson used Jeffries’s status, wealth, and a web of household staffers to fulfill the couple’s sexual desires in what amounted to an international sex trafficking and prostitution business—and to keep it all secret, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn.
