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The former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries and his British partner have been charged with operating a ‘prostitution and international sex trafficking business’. The allegations claim that the pair orchestrated a network to facilitate these illegal activities, involving multiple individuals across international borders. The indictment claims that from December 2008 to March 2015, Jeffries, Smith, and Jacobson trafficked men through a prostitution operation, using force, fraud, and coercion. All three were taken into custody on Tuesday. 

Jeffries served as the CEO of Abercrombie, a global fashion retailer, from around 1992 to 2014. Smith was Jeffries' life partner. According to the indictment, Jacobson was hired by Jeffries and Smith to recruit, interview, and hire men for commercial sex acts involving the couple.

Jeffries Used Corporate Resources For Prostitution Enterprise

According to the indictment, from around 2008 to 2015, Jeffries, Smith, and Jacobson, along with others, ran an international sex trafficking and prostitution operation. Jeffries and Smith leveraged both their financial resources and Jeffries' position as Abercrombie's CEO, relying on Jacobson, as well as a network of employees, contractors, and security personnel, to sustain the enterprise, which was aimed at satisfying their sexual demands.

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Operated International Sex Trafficking Network

Jeffries and Smith allegedly financed the travel of numerous men across the US and internationally to locations such as the Hamptons, New York City, and various countries including England, France, Italy, Morocco, and Saint Barthélémy. 

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The purpose was for these men to engage in commercial sex acts with Jeffries, Smith, and others at what were termed ‘Sex Events’. Jacobson, responsible for recruiting and interviewing these men, is accused of travelling to different locations to conduct ‘tryouts’, where he typically required candidates to engage in sex acts with him before participating in the events.