Les Wexner

Leslie Herbert Wexner (born September 8, 1937) is an American billionaire businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and chair emeritus of Bath & Body Works, Inc. He has been the principal in Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and La Senza, amongst several other retail corporations.

Wexner is involved in politics. In 1991, with billionaire Charles Bronfman, Wexner formed the Mega Group, a club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen. As a pro-Israel lobby group, the organization is also said to have tried to influence US foreign policy in the Middle East. In 2003, it employed consultant Frank Luntz to help the group mobilize support for Israel. The group is also said to have had contacts with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and to have served as a "vehicle for influence operations in the United States".

Wexner retained Jeffrey Epstein as his financial manager from 1987 to 2007 and was initially the "main client" of Epstein's money-management firm, according to Bloomberg. Epstein ran his business from a house Wexner owned and sometimes lived in. On February 10, 2026, Representative Ro Khanna revealed that the FBI had named Wexner as an unindicted co-conspirator. The following day, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio denied Wexner's motion to quash a previous subpoena, ordering him to attend a deposition in an Ohio State University case regarding abuse by former staff physician Richard Strauss, who was implicated in the Ohio State University abuse scandal.