217:, following his arrest in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking. It emerged that Epstein used his connections to Wexner and Victoria's Secret to prey on young women by posing as a recruiter. Executives had warned Wexner about this in the 1990s, but no action was taken. The business problems at Victoria's Secret soon escalated into a public crisis. In 2019, an activist shareholder, CEO James A. Mitarotonda of Barington Capital Group, L.P., criticized Razek and pressured L Brands in an open letter to update the brand image and switch up the predominantly male board of directors at the company.
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