Jeffrey Epstein would “name drop” President Donald Trump as one of the many high-profile people he claimed to know, billionaire retail magnate Leslie Wexner said this week in a congressional deposition about the notorious sex offender.
The 88-year-old Wexner, who was one of Epstein’s top clients and benefactors, said Epstein “held [Trump] out as a friend,” according to a video of the deposition that House Democrats released Thursday.
But Wexner, the retired founder of Victoria’s Secret ex-parent L Brands, said he did not believe Trump and Epstein were actually friends. And he denied seeing or hearing anything about Trump having a sexual relationship with someone introduced to him by Epstein or his convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
He also told lawmakers that both Trump and Epstein would sometimes be at the lingerie company’s fashion shows — though he suggested it was a “coincidence” and that he can’t recall “something ... that would put them together.”
“I remember because Trump would always introduce himself to me, and I always thought it was kind of odd that he was at the fashion show because he had nothing to do with fashion,” Wexner said.
