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Hold up Hades!

Pardon.
Paul's gotta unpack.

Robert J. Ruttenberg:

▪️Manhattan Research, LLC - Think Tank √
▪️Gryphon Development - Leslie "Cats!" Wexner √
▪️Warner Cosmetics|Warner Communications - Blavatnik √
▪️Cosmair - L’Oréal - Bettencourt √
▪️Revlon - Ron Perelman √
All right.
Here's some brief
Robert J. Ruttenberg:

Leslie Wexner's *associate

▪️Manhattan Research, LLC
Think Tank🧠

Provides info on
issues, attitudes + trends
related 2 tech use
+ adoption by consumers
+ health pros.👈

Decision Resources Group 📌
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan…
Wat dis?

▪️Decision Resources

What isn't it!

▪️Piramal Group
Mumbai, India

4 Key Cos:
~Piramal Enterprises, Ltd
~Piramal Glass 🧪
~Piramal Realty 🏘️💸
~Piramal Foundation

*Piramal top 10 global; 2011

Wexner | OSU ?🤔📌
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piramal_G…
▪️Cosmair

~L'Oréal Paris

1984 purchases
▪️Warner Cosmetics,
subsidiary of
▪️Warner Communications,
4 $146 million.

fundinguniverse.com/company-histor…
Ichhhh. L'Oréal
Liliane Schueller Bettencourt
André Bettencourt

La Cagoule:
Violent Fascist group
Anti-Semitic
Involved in criminal activities:
gun-running + firebombing synagogues.
After German invasion,
Swore allegiance 2 Hitler,
Persecution of FR Jews.
telegraph.co.uk/news/obituarie…
Warner Communications:

3 Divisions
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Music Group - Len Blavatnik [timing?]
Warner Cable | Dimension Pictures

Access Industries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Mu…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Co…
▪️Gryphon Development, L.P.

Producer of personal care products.
Gryphon soon became division responsible
4 creation of new products
4 Bath & Body Works chain,
acting as R&D arm of 📌
personal care branch.

Robert J. Ruttenberg, Pres

fundinguniverse.com/company-histor…
Leslie Wexner
Intimate Brands
1995

Division Leaders:

▪️Express - Susan Falk
▪️Lerner, NY - Richard P. Crystal
▪️Lane Bryant - Jill Dean
▪️Limited Stores - Cheryl Turpin
▪️Henri Bendel - Ted Marlow
▪️Structure - David Mangini
▪️Abercrombie & Fitch Co. - Mike Jeffries📌
1/3
Leslie Wexner
Intimate Brands
1995

Division Leaders:

▪️The Limited Too - Michael Rayden
▪️Gaylan's Trading Co. - Pat Gaylan
▪️Victoria's Secret Stores - Grace Nichols
▪️Victoria's Secret Catalogue - Cynthia Fedus
▪️Bath & Body Works - Beth Pritchard
▪️Cacique - Sally Martin
2/3
Leslie Wexner
Intimate Brands
1995

Division Leaders:

▪️Penhaligon's - Sheila Pickles
▪️Gryphon - Robert J. Rutterberg
▪️Mast Industries
▪️Limited Distribution Services
▪️Limited Real Estate
▪️Limited Store Planning
3/3
Wexner
Intimate Brands, Inc.

Notes.

I'm still trying 2 make sense of

1990 - $1.9M in Sales
1994 - $2.1B in Sales

Gives pause 2 this period.📌

Epstein is involved in 1995?
Wexner - Epstein

From 1990s thru mid-2000s,
Epstein was listed as 1 of 3 trustees of
Wexner Foundation:
orgs:
Arts Interests,
Health and Science Interests,
Health and Science Interests II,
Wexner Children’s Trust II,
+ Int'l Charitable Interests. meaww.com/jeffrey-epstei…
Where the fuqq am I going?

How does Paul forget 2 drop
a good Ron Perelman story.

After all, U say Revlon,
I say Ichh/Gross
Ron Perelman.

More names.
Some 90s Financials?
Fuqq yeah.
Hold please.📞

nymag.com/relationships/…
Just want 2 lay out 3 WSJ👈😂
articles of late.

Pulling connex
btw Wexner | Epstein.
▪️Robert Morosky

1st UP
7-12-19

√Introverted Wexner
charmed by Epstein's
"charisma, confidence
+ prime-time connex"

Ms. Ohio
small time gal.

"Les insecure, big ego.
Craved respect."√
When did they meet?
Y confusion here?

Wexner close friend
👇
▪️Robert Meister
Insurance Exec [? DK]
Jeffrey Epstein + Leslie Wexner
met in 1980s📌

It was during the period of
corp restructuring📌
Epstein was on board
*assisting Les.

Yeah. Real *genius.
Epstein
"told Wexner
all of these stories
about how much
he made for people."

*Timing👈

Bear Stearns
Epstein cranked cash
4 Wexner.

1982, Wexner buys
6 store Victoria's Secret
$1M

Shares soared in 1990s

"Epstein could intro Les
2 import people."

Morosky worries.📌
Jeffrey Epstein
tried 2 offer
input on VS castings.

Leslie Wexner
sells
Epstein plane
$10M📌

Wexner would
refer 2 Epstein remarks
during corp mtgs.📌
"Jeff thinks this.
Jeff thinks that."

lolol
Lord knows,
Jeffrey Epstein was
all caught up in Ohio.

Bringing in M Farmer,
Overseeing New Albany devel, etc

Charity sex.
Epstein Charity +
Wexner Charity
commingling.

2001 Wexner
rec'd $9.6M
from Epstein
Virgin Islands trust.

Sher Jan.
Ready 4 this 1?

In 2008,
after Jeffrey Epstein
Palm Beach rapes,

Epstein gives $34.3M
in Apple shares 2
Abigail Wexner👈

Uh.
Another $12M
goes 2 Abigail foundation.

Keep ur eyes on that cream puff.

She filled w fantasy + grift.

Give her a panty liner. NOW!
Oh Dear.

Paul has 2 hurray
as New WSJ
just dropped.

Will B following up the next 2 WSJ articles w latest.

Hold Please.📞
Excuses
WSJ
7-15-19

Leslie Wexner
wasn't aware of
money manager,
Jeffrey Epstein's,
criminal behavior.

"Would never have guessed
a person I employed
more than a decade ago
🖕Try 80s Les. Not a decade.

Y can't WSJ
remember their own reporting.
🤔
They met in the 80s per WSJ!
Leslie Wexner
claims 2 have
severed ties w
Jeffrey Epstein
2007.

Paul says,
u can't quit that kind of love.

"Let me assure u
I was never aware of 📌
the illegal activity charged in indictment."

*Things that come back 2 haunt √
Commingling Much Leslie?
WSJ
7-24-19

L Brands
Board of Directors
hires outside law firm
2 review
Jeffrey Epstein's
role at co.📌

How far will they go?
1963?

Leslie Wexner, 81,📌
attny says
"We do not
*believe👈
he was ever employed by
nor served as an authorized rep."
Links to

Leslie Wexner
Jeffrey Epstein
WSJ Articles

7-12-19
wsj.com/articles/epste…
7-15-19
wsj.com/articles/l-bra…
7-24-19
wsj.com/articles/l-bra…
WSJ
7-25-19
Jeffrey Epstein
Burrowed N2
Lives of Rich
+ Made Fortune

wsj.com/articles/jeffr… -
Pardon Notes.
It's how I roll.

Jeffrey Epstein
was put in charge of
wealthy idiots'
*Charities

People in news
who make *List:
▪️Leslie Wexner
▪️Leon Black, Apollo
▪️Elizabeth Fuqqing Johnson📌
▪️Glenn Dubin, Hedgehog

JE was given Wexner
POA 4 > 15yrs😱

EggWeinerConeyBoy
Only note is
Jeffrey Epstein
is reportedly
in Psych Ward ["suicide watch"]
due 2 marks on neck
from yesterday's drama.

Prolly better 4 him there
than general pop.

'Ace' Greenberg
story kills Paul!
Each time.
😂😂😂😂
LoLoL

Liar McLiar-Face

They R ALL same
phoney con-artists!
Hey tRUmp!

Rdy?
Epstein *embellished his BS resume.
Said he was just trying 2 get a teaching job, man.
'He went 2 *Stanford' lololol NOT!

BS boss,
▪️Michael Tennenbaum
say okay.
That's cool.
2nd chance given.🤦‍♂️
Coney Island Icarus
Jeffrey Epstein

W/in 4 yrs,
Epstein became lmtd part
at Bear Stearns.
[Ace is the Place!]

"It was all a game w [Epstein]."

1982, J. Epstain & Co.😂
U.S. + Overseas clients

Ichhhh.
JP Morgan Chase acquisition,
2008
Leslie Wexner
gave it all over 2
Jeffrey Epstein.
"He had absolute control."

POA Power of Attorney

Mngd 7% of company stock
Wexner taxes
Wexner Stock
Wexner Charities|Trusts

Epstein even write up
Leslie + Abigail Pre-Nup.
---------
Abigail: "Just have JE hire the nanny."🤦‍♂️
📌
Pitch Black

Jeffrey Epstein
would profit off Wexner's deals.

Ichhhhh
▪️Elizabeth "Libet" Ross Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
JE on several property titles

▪️Leon Black📌
Apollo Global Mgnt
1995

"He found every provision
that could justifiably B used."
wsj.com/articles/jeffr…
Tax *Savings

Creative Coney Island Weiner
knows how 2 maximize a client's
ability 2 avoid paying taxes.

Jeffrey Epstein
+
Leon Black were tight.

JE on Black's
foundation Board til 2007

2015,📌
Gratitude America Ltd,
Virgin Islands
JE's *foundation
$10M cash gift
from Black
Late 1990s, Jeffrey Epstein
was referred by JPMorgan
2
▪️Jes Staley, JPM Private Bank
JE started connecting
string of folks of Staley.
▪️Glenn Dubin, Highbridge Capital Mgnt📌
▪️Eva Andersson-Dubin📌

Andersson had *dated JE in 80s.
Introduces both men at JE political fundraiser
Offshores Whores

JPMorgan hires Dubin's
Highbridge Capital Mgnt
2 mng assets 2
offshore reinsurance products,
which helped minimized taxes 4 clients

Staley eventually
funneled private-banking clients' money
directly N2 Highbridge's
hedge fun.

#PanamaPapers
#ParadisePapers
3/3 of this SS
Jeffrey Epstein
invests $10M in
Highbridge Capital Mgnt
turns N2 $29M

JPMorgan
buys cntrl of
HCM
2004
4 > $1B

Epstein earns fee of $15M
4 intro Durbin 2 Staley yrs earlier
Jeffrey Epstein
was listed as
HCM
*advisor📌
along w Goldman Sux Poup.
~JE was NOT publicly disclsd.

Dubin:
"extremely ltd bus rltnshp"👈🤔

In remaining friends w Epstein,😱
Dubins *believed JE
"had rehabbed after 2008;
gave 2nd chance📌 [#2]

Eva DATED JE ~ Eww👈
@Agenthades1
Houston,
we have severed
Jeffrey Epstein
contacts:

▪️Staley, now Barclays PLC, "several yrs."
▪️JPMorgan terminated JE assoc 2013

Did 2008 stop Epstein?
Nope.
▪️Leon Black
asks Apollo's
Marc Rowan
2 attend mtg at JE hs 👈🤔
w woman repping wealthy family
a few yrs ago!👈📌
Oh, Rly

Jeffrey Epstein
long spoke of having other
inc sources,
incl currency-trading biz
earning 10s of $.M

Wat dis?
Claims of JE
wrkng w US Treas📌
on cryptocurrency +
anti-hacking efforts?

JE wrkng w
sovereign-wealth fnds,
some from ME?
"Hlpng move $
+ find assets"

U.N.?
@karolcummins
"If" JE was wrking 4 Treasury,
it certainly has to be under Mnuchin...

Wasn't during Obama's 8 yrs.

Bush?
@Agenthades1 Will be using ur incredible black book/bible.

If u didn't make it end of thread, do so... Treasury dept? Crypto? anti-hacking advisement? Under tRUmp or Bush? I'm going w Mnuchin... UR bet @Agenthades1

Also, which fund he wrking?

Qatar or KSA?

<3
Sooooo,

Roy Raymond,

original owner
of Victoria's Secret
was making $6M/yr;
sells 2 Leslie Wexner 4 $1M;
jumps off Golden Gate

Did ya see it coming?
Paul did not!

And, there's kiddie stuff.
Raymond was a divorced fella
building kiddie clothing stores.

Wasn't that a *Fun Fact?😏

Yeah. Paul's got more.

Got lots of 'Cats!' Schmatta

Gonna tear thru more
Leslie Wexner
nasty dealings.

Let's dial back 2
6-8-1986👈
+ review
1960s - 1980s📌

Paul's brkdwn
follows
+ so should U!👇
nytimes.com/1986/06/08/mag…
Rdy. Set. Kray!

Rag-Hag Trade Revolution
Leslie H. Wexner
48 yo [1986]

Here come some socialist sh¡t:
"He speaks of unending struggle
4 greater productivity + profitability,
of self-awareness + personal fulfillment."
🤦‍♂️
Ayn Rand's coming up.
Hang on.
That's later...
lol
Wexner 'brush w disaster' in late 70s📌

1985 - Limited
$143M net
$2.4B sales

Middlemen or Meddlemen?

'Created his own global
manufacturing + distribution
network.'
Oh Dear.
Verna K. Gibson
runs tight cult-like
enterprise
at Limited.

Tight ship.

FALSE:
"Don't forget,
we think about
what women want 2 wear
the way u breathe."

TRUE: She goes around + rips-off designs
2 produce in the schmatta factory.
>SADS<

Was Barbie mentored by her?
Paul's

idea of

Verna K. Gibson👇

[Hey. If mob can smear, so can Paul]

Oops.
Paul just dropped
egg salad on his pants.

Where's Janice?????

Maybe Hope H. can come
w steam cleaner?
i.e. MOUTH
Leslie Wexner
+ his
SCHMATTA FACTORY

Ripping off designs,
producing 4 near nothing

"U've got 2 get stuff
2 consumer 1st
if U want 2B successful."

1978 - Mast Industries 📌
Opportunities in *Orient
1986
Limited's merchandise
fills avg of 3,
US-bound
747's/wk📌

Mast Industries
Martin Trust 📌

Walsh Trucking📌

Leslie Wexner
'circling globe in his new
Gulfstream jet.'📌

Sher. Y not meet w
Ariel Sharon + govt officials
4 closed-door mtgs.📌

"Build me an int'l airport!"
Operation tightens;
48hr pass-thru dist cntr.

Verna Gibson:
"We don't want 100 mgrs
out there deciding what
stores should look like."

1986 -
Limited does not
rpt sales figures - Pvt📌
[Not public until later.]
Leslie Wexner
"man of many acquaintances
+ few friends, bachelor." - 1986 - 41yo

"Idea of good time
is munching popcorn
+ watching Clint Eastwood
movies aboard his corp jet."
💃
"Lives alone w household help."
[Would any of them
be young men, Leslie?]

Pisses-off Columbus, OH.
Daddy Issues

Leslie Wexner
1963, 26 yo
"unabashed *imitator"

Gordon Schiffman💃

Wexner:
"If U want 2 *torture me,
take my wrk away."
😏

Oh Dear.
▪️Milton Petrie📌
Petrie Stores Corp.

Petrie offers Wexner $500K
4 1/2 of Limited.
Ltd's sales $400K
Wexner turns dwn offer.
Wexner + Petrie
both nasty,
went head-2-head
at each other
1985 after Wexner
bought Lerner.🔥

Milton Petrie is a freak.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Pe…
Marla Hanson
must have known something.

Got her face slashed.

Member?
1985

Steven Roth
Steven Bowman
Darren Norman
Marla Hanson

Milton Petrie

12-21-1986

Leslie Wexner

MOB

2
nytimes.com/1986/12/21/nyr…
1-16-1987

Marla Hanson
sues
Steven Roth,
Hanson's former landlord.

latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
Marla Hanson

Milton Petrie <=== Eww
Like he is the Mob's sugardaddy.

Giving money 2 those who get in way
+ leave w serious injuries.

Mob - Mob -Mob - Mob

Steven Roth
Steven Bowman
Darren Norman

THIS is complete mob kray.
nytimes.com/1989/07/19/nyr…
92-yo Milton Petrie,
pawnbroker's son
who made fortune in ladies' apparel
back when
women didn't mind being called ladies,
had been a generous man all his life,
impulsively dashing off checks
2 hard-luck cases
he learned about
in morning's tabloids.👈

nytimes.com/1994/11/20/bus…
Got more unpacking.

Another beauty coming up.

▪️Adolf Alfred 'Al' Taubman📌

Y did u think I just said mob?

lol

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Alfred…
Al Taubman
huge in SoCal
mob.
I mean, real estate.

Irvine Co.

Taubman's *price-fixing
[Sotheby's] scandal
rocked art auction world [Christie's invld]

Died of heart attack if interested.

latimes.com/local/obituari…
A. Alfred Taubman
became mentor 2
Leslie Wexner

Eeesh.

"Alfred [61] + I [41]
have a very intimate relationship,
like father + son."
~ Leslie Wexner

💃💃💃

Who says mob can't B gay?

Gays have rights, too!
lol
Time 2 Go Public!

~Hardly!~ lol💃

Leslie Wexner
grabs old schoolmate
Peter Halliday
2 raise cash + go PUBLIC!

Wexner gave chunk
of stock 2 parents +
sister Susan Wexner📌

Susan's been trying 2
gain cntrl of shares.📌

Critics cry Corporate Cult!
"If u sign up,
ur owned."
1970's Leslie Wexner Expands

100th Limited store 1976

1978, Wexner buys
Mast Industries📌
"merch manufact'd
by low-cost,
non-union shops in *Orient."

Unsold sweater-sets pile up!
No gd 4 retail. BAD!

▪️Robert H. Morosky,
Limited accountant
Wexner + Morosky
"salami slicers"
Always last paragraphs

1985
Wexner buys Henri Bendel
wants NY presence
$2.4M > 3 $800K notes
Awesome deal 4 Wexner
almost steal.

Wexner goes on acquisition *binge

"Ltd has no problem obtaining
gigantic lines of credit from any bank."

Wexner - play 1 bank off other
4 low rate
Have we talked about
▪️Meshulam Riklis ?

Let's.
2 words: Pia Zadora

Turkish bus man.
Rapid-American Corp
Lerner

Wexner does mob move on Riklis,
while moving in 4 a take-over.
~"Urges chain's execs + union 2 delay
signing new contract."

"Suspicious of sweetheart deals."
1984
Leslie Wexner
loses hostile takeover bid
Carter Hawley Hale

Even Taubman
told Wexner 2
stay away from
Philip M. Hawley,
big SoCal bizman

"The Limited didn't understand
u can't go hostile +
expect 2 go cheap."
~P.M. Hawley
🤣🤣🤣😏
nytimes.com/1986/06/08/mag…
Wexner +
advisor,
▪️Felix Rohatyn, Lazard Freres

"The outcome [Hawley] sticks in Wexner's craw."

Taubman buys
Woodward & Lothrop dept stores +
Sotheby's auction house.📌

Both, Wexner + Milton Petrie
were cut in on Sotheby's deal.📌

LW focuses on prestigious specialty stores
English 101 - Ayn Rand

This SS gets a few frames.
Leslie Wexner
likens himself 2
Howard Roark,
idealistic arch-hero of
Ayn Rand's
'The Fountainhead'

Howard Roark,
"just wanted 2 do it his way."
Accounting 101 - Wexner Finance

Risk:
Co. must produce
enough cash flow
2 cvr int chrgs
+ pay off debt
or
face financial crunch

Wexner felt crunch in 1970s.📌
Accounting 101 - Wexner Finance

Wexner fuqqs w Seventh Ave
Cancels $100M order!

Ltd eliminated slow-selling sizes

W/in mos, stores filled w snappy threads
advertising budget eliminated
▪️Robert A. Corea
"Wexner depends on store display
+ mall traffick."
Accounting 101 - Wexner Finance

1978 - $30.9M > Mast
[78 - 81 - Wexner pays off $14.6M debt]
1981 - Debt load $16.6M
1982 - Borrows $97.2M
[Pays off in 18 mos]
1984 - Borrows $515.4M 2 use 4 failed Hawley TO
1984 - Reduces debt 2 $92M
1985 - Debt $353.9M
1985 - ttl debt $480.9M
Roy Raymond's
Victoria's Secret
made its debut in 1977,
w 1st boutique in Palo Alto

5-15-1982

Annual sales of $7M📌

Wexner valuation
+ purchase 4 $1M
is upsetting.

Some dirty mob invlvd.
nytimes.com/1982/05/15/sty…
@karolcummins So... Tapping this back into thread.

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