The Abercrombie Guys: 6. Inside the Operation

World Of Secrets

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Do you know how much money I was getting paid?"

A former assistant who travelled with The Abercrombie Guys agrees to talk: "They were trying to act so perfect,” he says - what could they have been hiding?”

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World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is presented and investigated by Rianna Croxford Series Producers: Ruth Evans and Alys Harte Senior Producer: Emma Close Development Producer: Hannah Livingston Investigation Editor: Ed Campbell Podcast Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Executive Editor: Emma Rippon Studio Engineers: Neil Churchill, Andy Fell, Gareth Jones, and Ali Rezakhani Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford and Sophie Hill Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Executive: Louise Kattenhorn Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Panorama. If you are in the UK, you can watch Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool on BBC iPlayer now, or on BBC Select if you are in the in the US. World of Secrets: Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys is a BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	How did the richest people on the planet make their fortunes?
0:05.0	I'm Simon Jack and I'm Zing Singh.
0:08.0	Join us for good bad billionaire.
0:09.0	Each episode we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their money like the comedian Jerry
0:14.5	Seinfeld the financier George Soros the golf star Tiger Woods then Simon and I
0:19.6	have a decision to make do we think they are good, bad or just another billionaire?
0:24.3	Good bad billionaire. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:27.8	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.0	Hi, thanks for listening to World of Secrets.
0:37.0	I'm Riana Croxford, and before we start, I wanted to let you know that this episode
0:41.4	contains very strong language.
0:45.2	Really? Take two, Mark. Ready? It's been almost two and a half years since my first phone call with
1:01.1	Barrett Paul. The call that sparked this entire investigation.
1:06.6	When we hung up, I had no idea where this was going to lead, but I've slowly been connecting the dots.
1:14.2	The scale of this operation is bigger than I think I understand still.
1:19.0	It's part of a well-oiled machine.
1:20.9	Mike Jeffries is at the center of as a pyramid which means that there's a
1:26.7	base that's holding it up. It was Barrett who first led me to on earth a paper
1:32.3	trail of evidence of what appears to be a slick
1:35.3	operation run for the Abercrombie guys.
1:38.3	It says, you know, Barrett clearly addressed to me.
1:41.5	Thanks for being able to come for the event on Saturday, May 7th in the Hamptons.
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