Victoria's Secret: Sex pests all the way down
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The demon living inside Les Wexner's head brings us into the Victoria's Secret gremlin lair! Adam and Becca go back to the early 2000s to tell the story of the rise and fall of this retail behemoth and the corporate crooks who drove it into the ground.
CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & Ed Razek's creep club
16:30 - The toxic culture inside Victoria's Secret
25:00 - Les Wexner's childhood & mommy issues
42:00 - Jack Fucking Welch shows up!!! The fall of Victoria's Secret
Links:
Selling Sexy: Victoria's Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon
'Angels' in Hell: The Culture of Misogyny Inside Victoria's Secret
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Gather around and let me tell you something very scary. |
| 0:11.0 | Scarier than a Haitian mortician. |
| 0:14.0 | Scarier than Trump's White House renovations. |
| 0:18.0 | Scarier than another Colleen Hoover book being turned into a movie. I mean, come |
| 0:23.2 | on, how was Allison Williams the mom? This is the terrifying true tale of Les Wexner. |
| 0:32.9 | A very, very rich man who lived in the biggest house in the whole state. His house was so big. |
| 0:39.7 | The dining room table had hydraulic lifts so it could be set from below and hoisted into the dining |
| 0:46.1 | room. He was invited to every party. Women were throwing themselves at him. On the outside, |
| 0:53.9 | everything was perfect. But he was hiding a dark |
| 0:59.8 | secret. He had given access to his billion dollar fortune to a person that would become one of the |
| 1:05.7 | most notorious criminals in American history, Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein lived in his properties. Epstein used his contacts. |
| 1:15.8 | He even posed as a model scout for Wexner's company, Victoria's Secret, to law his victims. |
| 1:24.4 | When Les Wexner's dirty secret was exposed, he tried to say he had no idea, and he blamed it on the demon living inside his head. |
| 1:35.7 | That's me. |
| 1:37.1 | But I know the real culprit. |
| 1:40.9 | Mommy issues! |
| 1:44.2 | Welcome. Mommy issues! Ah! |
| 1:50.0 | Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast. |
| 1:53.0 | It's the business podcast for gossip lovers. We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street team, and the not-so |
| 1:59.0 | hidden secrets of famous business people. You don't need to |
| 2:02.6 | know anything about business to enjoy the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. |
| 2:08.7 | This is Victoria's Secret, sex pests all the way down. |
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