After taking off in 1977, Victoria’s Secret has crashed in slow motion since 2019. The reasons are multifactorial. Long-enjoyed, the famed lingerie brand’s annual show now looks like a tall lump of cheese male gauze. The models of her muses nicknamed “Angels” with measures impossible to maintain without infinite constraints are less and less dreamy and are therefore progressively replaced by more diversified profiles of women, while the proposed sizes panels tend to widen in a difficult operation rebranding.
But it was above all the sexual scandals in the company that weighed it down. This is what theand documentary Victoria’s Secret: angels and demonsproduced by the Hulu platform.
Victoria’s Secret: angels and demons reveal the sex crimes behind the lingerie empire
Her trailer thus remembers what this lingerie empire stood for at the dawn of the 2010s:
“No other lingerie brand could compete with Victoria’s Secret. It could attract the best talent in the world. All the celebrities wanted to be a part of her show. It’s a $ 7.5 billion company. “
But behind the accumulated frills scandals, remember Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons. Especially around one man: Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender who profited from Victoria’s Secret
As the trailer for the documentary just unveiled on July 7, 2022 suggests, the links between Victoria’s Secret and the businessman will be deepened in particular. Jeffrey Epstein, convicted sex offender. The latter in particular managed the fortune of the one who was CEO of the lingerie brand from 1982 to 2021, Les Wexner. He took advantage of this position to lure young women, often minors, into human trafficking.. In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein ends up in jail awaiting trial for child trafficking, but is found hanged in his cell.
Of course, Jeffrey Epstein was just one man among others, making up a whole network of powerful personalities who profit from this sex trafficking of often underage young women. And this is the most disturbing thing.
The documentary Victoria’s Secret: angels and demons will be available on July 14, 2022 exclusively on the Hulu platform.
A photo credit: YouTube screenshot of the documentary trailer Victoria’s Secret: angels and demons.
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