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Today on Forbes, everything we know about Les Wexner in the Epstein files.

On February 18th, the U.S. House Oversight Committee questioned retail mogul Leslie Wexner

about his relationship with sex offender and disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein.

The deposition, which was moved from Washington, D.C. to Wexner's home state of Ohio,

came days after members of Congress, representatives Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Roecona of

California, compelled the Justice Department to reveal Wexner's then-redacted identity in an internal FBI

document that had been among the millions released in January. The FBI document labeled

Wexner a co-conspirator to Epstein, along with Leslie Groff, Glein McIntylle, Jean-Luc

Brunel, Karina Shuliac, and four others whose names remained redacted.

The document appears to be tied to the child sex trafficking charges against Epstein,

and possibly the investigation into his death.

In 2019, the assistant U.S. attorney told Wexner's legal counsel that he was, quote,

neither a co-conspirator nor a target in any

respect. This, according to a spokesperson for Wexner. That came after Wexner provided background

information on Epstein. Wexner's spokesperson says Wexner was never contacted again.

Long known as an associate of Epstein, Wexner, Ohio's wealthiest man, worth $9 billion,

claims to have cut ties to him by 2008 and for years has denied any knowledge of Epstein's offenses.

He has not been charged with the crime. In 86-page investigative memorandum, prepared by New York federal prosecutors,

from 2019, that was part of the most recently released Epstein files, includes two pages

that describe a meeting with Wexner's attorneys, in which the entrepreneur's lawyers

claimed Epstein had stolen or misappropriated, quote, several hundred million dollars

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