Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein as teenagers are now going after the billionaire who allegedly made his whole operation possible.
In fresh court documents obtained by TMZ, a pair of Jane Does filed suit against former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner, the 88-year-old L Brands founder who built one of the most recognizable retail empires in American history.
The women claim Wexner handed Epstein the money, the mansion, the private jet, and the credibility he needed to carry out years of abuse against minors. With the Epstein files still being unpacked by Congress and federal courts, this lawsuit arrives at a moment when the country is finally forcing answers out of the people who stood closest to one of the most prolific predators in modern history.
What They Say Happened Inside That Manhattan Mansion
Both women allege they were 17 years old at the time of the assaults, which they say took place at Epstein’s six-story townhouse at 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan, one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in New York City.
According to the court filing, Wexner originally purchased the property in 1989 and later transferred it to Epstein for a price the lawsuit describes as a fraction of its actual value. A spokesperson for Wexner pushed back against a similar accusation months ago, stating that it is “well documented” that the townhouse was sold to Epstein for $20 million in 1998.
The women say they were brought to the mansion under the pretense of giving Epstein massages, a recruitment tactic that prosecutors and survivors have described repeatedly across dozens of Epstein cases.
Jane Doe 1 alleges that while she was performing a massage, Epstein slipped his hand into her underwear and sexually assaulted her without her consent. The filing states she was so shaken by the assault that she ran to the bathroom, crying. The lawsuit goes on to allege that during subsequent visits, Epstein groped and fondled her without consent on multiple occasions.
Jane Doe 2’s account is equally disturbing. The filing alleges she was forced to touch Epstein in a sexual manner alongside other young women, while he allegedly groped multiple girls during the same encounter. Both accounts land squarely within a pattern of abuse that federal prosecutors had already documented before Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019, while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges.
The $200 Million Question
Here is where the lawsuit takes a turn that goes far beyond the crime scene. The Jane Does are not just suing the Epstein estate. They are going directly after Wexner, arguing that none of this could have happened without his financial and institutional backing.
The filing alleges Wexner funneled at least $200 million to Epstein between 1987 and 2007, money the suit claims was used to build and sustain an international trafficking operation. Wexner’s spokesperson has also once denied that figure outright, calling it untrue and stating that Wexner paid Epstein solely for wealth management services and had no knowledge of any wrongdoing.
An earlier lawsuit also argues that Epstein would have been nothing more than a “failed high school math teacher” if Wexner had never entered his life. That framing echoes what Congressman Robert Garcia of California said publicly after Democratic members of Congress and Republican staffers traveled to Wexner’s New Albany, Ohio, mansion earlier this year to conduct a deposition.
Garcia stated plainly that without Wexner