Les Wexner, the billionaire business executive who hired Jeffrey Epstein to manage his finances in the 1980s, will sit for a deposition with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Wexner is scheduled to be deposed at his residence in New Albany, Ohio.
Wexner, the former CEO of L Brands, first met Epstein in the 1980s and gave Epstein power of attorney over his finances. Wexner has said he cut business ties with Epstein in 2007, but emails show the two communicated in 2008.
Wexner has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has never been charged with a crime. But Wexner’s relationship with Epstein has attracted new coverage after the release of a 2019 FBI document that listed Wexner as a co-conspirator in the Epstein investigation.
During last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Wexner’s name appears more than 4,000 times in the Epstein files.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) also pressed Bondi to explain why Wexner’s name had originally been redacted in the 2019 document.
A group of Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will hold a news conference in New Albany following the Wexner deposition. Participants include Ranking Member Robert Garcia (Calif.) and Reps. Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Jasmine Crockett (Texas), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.) and Dave Min (Calif.).
The Wexner deposition comes as the fallout over the Epstein files continues to wreak havoc across the globe. On Monday, Thomas Pritzker stepped down as executive chair of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation because of his ties to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Next week, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are scheduled to sit for depositions before the Oversight Committee about Epstein. The Clintons initially sought to fight the subpoenas and avoid testifying, but they caved after the House moved to hold both in criminal contempt of Congress.
