32 Facts About Leslie Wexner

Leslie Wexner announced, in February 2020, that he was transitioning from CEO of L Brands into the role of chairman emeritus.

Leslie Wexner hired Jeffrey Epstein as his financial manager beginning sometime in the 1980s and continuing until 2007.

Leslie Wexner had a very close relationship with Epstein that began in the 1980s and continued until Epstein's death.

Leslie Wexner was once the “main client” of Epstein's money-management firm, according to Bloomberg.

Leslie Wexner allowed Epstein to run his business out of a house he owned and resided in whilst CEO of Victoria's Secret.

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Leslie Wexner's mother, a first generation American, was born in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn and moved to Columbus, Ohio, as a toddler.

Leslie Wexner attended Ohio State University, and although he had expressed an interest in architecture he graduated in 1959 with a major in business administration.

One year later, Leslie Wexner's parents closed their store and joined their son in running The Limited.

Leslie Wexner took Limited Brands public in 1969, listed as LTD on the NYSE.

Alfred Taubman reportedly served as a mentor for Leslie Wexner, starting in the mid 1960s, and the two partnered on many deals involving Taubman's shopping malls over the years.

Leslie Wexner expanded the Limited considerably in the 1970s, having opened the 100th store in 1976.

Leslie Wexner took on significant debt in 1978 to purchase the importer and manufacturer Mast Industries, which later was regarded to have provided him with essential business advantages over competitors.

Leslie Wexner bought the company for $1 million and by the 1990s it was worth an estimated $1 billion.

In February 2020, Leslie Wexner was described as the longest serving CEO of a Fortune 500 company, with his 57 years at the helm of L Brands.

Leslie Wexner was called out in the pop song "Victoria's Secret", the summer anthem of 2022, for profiting off women and contributing to their toxic body ideals.

Leslie Wexner had developed the “perfect body” campaign for the brand.

Leslie Wexner hired Jeffrey Epstein as his financial manager beginning sometime in the 1980s and continuing until 2007.

Leslie Wexner was the primary billionaire client of Epstein, a financier who claimed to only work with clients with a net worth of one billion USD or greater.

In July 1991, Leslie Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney and instated him as a trustee on the board of the Leslie Wexner Foundation.

Leslie Wexner has been accused of failing to take action when complaints were raised against Epstein, including after executives of L Brands reported that Epstein was abusing his power and connection to Leslie Wexner by posing as a recruiter of Victoria's Secret models.

The wrestlers called for accountability surrounding the Wexner family's involvement in Epstein's abuse and raised the issue of the continuing influence of Abigail and Leslie Wexner serving as the "biggest and best-known benefactors" of the university.

Leslie Wexner was listed by Forbes in 2017, the wealthiest of seven billionaires from Ohio who made the list.

Leslie Wexner was a major funder of the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, which is named in honor of his father.

Leslie Wexner explained that because "growing up, my folks moved around a lot, and I never got a good Jewish education", he felt unprepared to take leadership roles in the Jewish community.

In 1991, Leslie Wexner formed with billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group.

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The group, which Leslie Wexner co-chaired with Charles Bronfman, went on to inspire a number of philanthropic initiatives such as the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, Birthright Israel, and the upgrading of national Hillel.

Leslie Wexner served on the board of trustees of Ohio State University from 1988 to 1997.

In December 2005, Leslie Wexner was appointed to his second term and was elected chairman in 2009.

In February 2018, Abigail Leslie Wexner announced the end of the event, citing the growing number of elite equestrian competitions.

Leslie Wexner has owned the mid-eighteenth century Grade II* listed Foxcote House in Warwickshire, England, since 1997.

President George W Bush appointed Wexner to serve in the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.

Leslie Wexner made his comment shortly after former President Obama gave a speech on the same Columbus Partnership panel that Leslie Wexner addressed.