Abercrombie & Fitch Lawsuit
The “Good Life” Was Part of a Brand Riddled with Seduction & Sex Crimes.
Crazy doesn’t begin to describe it. New sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges have been leveled at former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and his long-time British partner/lover Matt Smith, claiming the two paid for “dozens of men” to travel domestically and internationally where they could be preyed upon at elaborate, top-secret “Sex Events,” then kept quiet with ironclad non-disclosure agreements. The two have been arrested.
Please never, ever think your story wasn’t bad enough to count. If it felt creepy, it probably was.
New charges filed October 29, 2023, allege Jeffries and the company funded a sex trafficking operation along with a culture that enabled the assault of males and females around the world on company time. New hires were enticed with the prospect of becoming the brand’s next billboard face, but the young employees, eager to please and unsure about business decorum, did not ask for what happened next. And it did happen.
“We go after the cool kids,” Jeffries said in 2006. “We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.” For years the company proudly refused to make sizes XL or XXL.
