Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries took male models into room to be sexually assaulted after fake job interviews, lawyer claims [Video]

15:27 EDT 23 Oct 2024, updated 15:49 EDT 23 Oct 2024

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries has been accused of sexually assaulting male models after he conducted fake job interviews.

Jeffries, 80, and his longtime partner Matthew Smith, were arrested in West Palm Beach on sex trafficking charges on Tuesday. A third man, Jim Jacobson, was arrested in the same case in Wisconsin.

Attorney Brad Edwards, who is representing more than a dozen alleged victims in a lawsuit, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that Jeffries used his role at Abercrombie to lure young male models and sexually abuse them.

‘There is nothing consensual about it. These were aspiring young models who were sought out and promised to be Abercrombie models, essentially,’ Edwards said.

The men went through ‘an interview’ with Jeffries before they ‘were ‘were taken into a room,’ where ‘the most heinous of sexual crimes were committed against them,’ according to the lawyer.