• kamenLady.
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      Put them all in one cell. R. Kelly, Diddy, Weinstein and this Abercrombie guy here. They should get along well, since they dedicated their lives to use their talent to get what they really wanted.

      Isn’t fame and money enough? How many of us humans have thIs urge to control and abuse others, only holding back, because they fear the consequences?

      I know that i don’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        What do you think drives them to attain fame and power in the first place? Those are simply tools for these sickos to live out their true fantasies.

      • Flying Squid
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        Sort of reminds me way back when the company still existed that when we went to Sears, my dad would ask what happened to Roebuck. I think Sears killed Roebuck and just covered the whole thing up by gaslighting everyone into thinking there never was a Roebuck.

  • Cap
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    Looks like an albino Harvey Weinstein.

  • @[email protected]
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    His lawsuit accused Jeffries, Smith, Jacobson and Abercrombie itself of luring attractive young men under the guise of making them an Abercrombie model and then forcing them to take drugs and perform sex acts.

    Woah, that’s… bad.

  • @[email protected]
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    10110 months ago

    Is this the guy who said he didn’t want ugly people wearing his ugly clothes? Even though he himself is ugly as sin

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Yep, that’s him. The dude hates ugly people but apparently doesn’t own a mirror. I make a point of not attacking people for their looks, because it can’t be helped, and I’m not exactly Ryan Gosling over here lol… But when you make it the core of your business, then it’s fair game. It’s almost impressive that Mike Jeffries has managed to be uglier on the inside than he is on the outside.

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        1010 months ago

        Did some reading on wikipedia and man this is so surreal. The whole brand sexualizes women and targets specifically kids. Even in that quote, he refers to the good-looking kids specifically.

    • bitwolf
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      He also fought against having his brand in thift stores because poor people shouldn’t wear Abercrombie

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        210 months ago

        Such ugly stupid clothes and it’s all covered in gaudy Abercrombie logos, like you’re their billboard

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        Never seen a vampire that looked like his teeth would shatter if he tried to eat an unripe avocado though

  • citrusface
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    12710 months ago

    Oh man, the dude that used photos of practically naked teenagers to decorate his stores is a creepy fuck? I never would have guessed.

    • Nougat
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      His lawsuit accused Jeffries, Smith, Jacobson and Abercrombie itself of luring attractive young men under the guise of making them an Abercrombie model and then forcing them to take drugs and perform sex acts.

      Not just that, he used that very business as bait.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        3510 months ago

        Yeah, Netflix released a documentary a few years ago called “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” that partially addressed what a fucking sleazy guy Mike Jeffries is. While it didn’t get into any claims related to this news, it definitely made it clear that he’s an asshole and solely responsible for Abercrombie’s pivot from being an outdoors oriented clothing brand to selling wildly unrealistic body standards to teenagers at malls in the 2000s. It’s been awhile, but from what I recall, nobody interviewed in the documentary had anything nice to say about him.

        And the irony is, Mike Jeffries looks like Gary Busey having a bad hair day, but he would’ve taken one look at me when I was 15 and been like “I don’t want him wearing our clothes, he’s too short and he’s got acne. Gross.” That’s the kind of prick he is. He despises anyone that doesn’t meet his standard of beauty and genuinely did not want “ugly” people wearing A&F.

        So I can’t say I’m all that surprised to learn he was doing much more horrific shit behind the scenes, too. And now with this news breaking, I’m just starting the count-down until he gets his own multi-part episode of Behind The Bastards.

        • Nougat
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          Oh I remember back in the day how A&F got away with only hiring “pretty” people to staff their stores by referring to them as “models.”

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    I hope all these sleazy motherfuckers are sweating hard right now. It’s been decades of allegations, civil lawsuits, etc all around the rich and famous. Now the chickens are coming home to roost in the form of FBI raids. Lock them up.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    It’s almost like some people with a lot of money do shit people without money want to do but can’t afford to.