The unshocking fall of Abercrombie & Fitch

Published October 25, 2024 4:35am ET



If you walked into an Abercrombie & Fitch in the late 1990s through the mid-2010s, believing you were simply walking into a clothing store, you would quickly realize that it wasn’t primarily selling polos and jeans. It was selling sex — to children.

So, if you ever visited an Abercrombie & Fitch store during those years, you would now be disgusted, but not shocked, to hear that the CEO, Mike Jeffries, has been charged with running a sex-trafficking ring that exploited young men for his and two other older gay mens’ pleasure.

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