Les Wexner addressed questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s purported financial background and connections during an exchange with an interviewer from GOP Oversight, detailing what he understood about Epstein’s experience and the representations he made.
Wexner was asked about Epstein’s credentials and prior work, including reported ties to prominent financial institutions and families.
“I think it was his experience at an industrial level, like looking for a big company like Bear Stearns, and then he had done personal work for the Rothschild family in France,” Wexner said.
The interviewer sought clarification on the nature of that work.
“Personal wealth management, essentially?” the interviewer asked.
“I don’t know,” Wexner responded.
The conversation then turned to reports that Epstein portrayed himself as someone who could locate missing funds or serve as a kind of financial “bounty hunter.”
“We’ve seen some reports that he would present himself as a bounty hunter, that he would find people’s missing money. Do you recall him saying anything like that?” the interviewer asked.
“No. Well, specifically, I talked to Élie de Rothschild and said mentioned that earlier. So he represented their whole families,” Wexner replied.
Wexner went on to describe calls he received from individuals claiming financial relationships with Epstein.
“There have been a whole bunch of people, most of whom I never would have met, but I knew Élie. I never met people, but there were people that called me that either insinuated or said they knew Jeffrey through a financial relationship, and so I mean, they could have been actors, but then the time a guy calls me up, I’ll give you an example, just because I want you understand this is it’s so confusing to me, he would say, like, I’m providing financial advice to the founders of Google. I’m financial providing financial advice to Jeff Bezos. I’m providing financial advice for the Chief Technologist at Google.”
Wexner said those representations left him with the impression that Epstein was connected to high-level clients.
“Wow, I’m in good company, because these are really smart guys with a lot of money,” he said.
He compared the situation to relying on professional assurances in other contexts.
“and you have to put yourself in the mindset of if my attorney said, you know, he was qualified to argue in front of the Supreme Court. I believe him. I didn’t say to call the supreme court and say, Tell me, is he really an attorney, or did he do this?”
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