After years of sexual misconduct allegations, Abercrombie & Fitch's former CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries and two other men have been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, a spokesperson for federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Details of the criminal charges weren't immediately available. They come after years of sexual misconduct allegations, made in civil lawsuits and the media, from young people who said Jeffries lured them with promises of modeling work and then pressed them into sex acts.
Attorney Breon Peace and FBI and police officials were set to hold a news conference later Tuesday.Jeffries left New Albany, Ohio-based Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014.One civil lawsuit filed in New York last year accused Abercrombie of allowing Jeffries to run a sex-trafficking organization during his 22-year tenure. It said that Jeffries had modeling scouts scouring the internet for victims, and that some prospective models became sex-trafficking victims.
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