Disgraced Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries grins as he's released from court on $10m bond

Former Abercrombie & Fitch brag Mike Jeffries has been released connected bail being charged with sickening enactment crimes.

Jeffries, 80, was accused of moving an planetary enactment trafficking cognition successful a bombshell 16-count national indictment.

He and his longtime spouse Matthew Smith, 61, were arrested successful West Palm Beach connected Tuesday. A 3rd man, Jim Jacobson, was arrested successful the aforesaid lawsuit successful Wisconsin.

Jefferies was released from jail on a $10 cardinal enslaved by a magistrate astatine the national courthouse successful West Palm Beach, Florida, connected Tuesday.

He grinned arsenic helium walked with his lawyers to a waiting car outside, wearing a acheronian bluish jumper implicit a polo garment and achromatic short, and what appeared to beryllium slippers.

Jacobson was besides released, connected a $500,000 bond, but Smith was ordered to enactment down bars.

Jeffries and Jacobson volition beryllium arraigned astatine 3pm connected Friday astatine the national courthouse successful Central Islip, Long Island, earlier US Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione.

Federal prosecutors said they spoke with 15 antheral victims who claimed the trio utilized the power they held acknowledgment to Jeffries' relation astatine Abercrombie to tally a prostitution cognition betwixt December 2008 and March 2015.

Jeffries was the main enforcement of Abercrombie & Fitch betwixt 1992 and 2014. 

The alleged victims said they were had their genitals shaved against their will, were made to formal up, and subjected to 'high-pressure enemas'.

Some victims were not cheery and were allegedly fixed the almighty erection-causing drugs truthful they could beryllium forced into cheery enactment against their will. 

Some of the men, identified arsenic John Does successful tribunal documents, assertion they were targeted adjacent though they were consecutive and forced to person cheery sex. 

Prosecutors accidental the victims were paid to question to places including New York City, England, France, Italy, Morocco and Saint Barthelemy to person enactment with Jeffries, Smith and others. 

Jeffries allegedly utilized a institution helium named the Jeffries Family Office to enlistee household unit to 'facilitate and supervise the Sex Events.' 

Prosecutors accidental the unit controlled the introduction and exit to the enactment parties and provided the men who attended with musculus relaxants known arsenic 'poppers,' arsenic good arsenic lubricant, Viagra and condoms, among different items.

The unit besides directed alleged victims to 'wear costumes, usage enactment toys oregon hole for peculiar intersexual acts,' according to tribunal documents.

Smith and Jeffries are accused of injecting men successful their penises with 'a prescription-grade erection-inducing substance' that caused painful, hourslong reactions to get them to prosecute successful enactment acts.

The men weren’t informed of each that the events would entail, including immoderate of the intersexual practices they’d beryllium expected to prosecute in, and they were required to springiness up their apparel and compartment phones during the gatherings and motion non-disclosure agreements afterward, the indictment said. 

Jacobson is accused of travelling successful the US and overseas to enlistee and interrogation men for the enactment parties. He allegedly utilized the nicknames 'Jim Jake,' 'Mrs. Cook' and 'Todd.'

According to the indictment, Jacobson would behaviour 'tryouts' with imaginable candidates by paying them for enactment with him. At the absorption of Smith, Jacobson besides allegedly paid fees to individuals who referred men for the enactment parties.

But prosecutors accidental the men were ne'er told 'the afloat grade and quality of the intersexual enactment that would beryllium required' which allegedly included 'anal intercourse, the insertion of ample enactment toys into the anus, and high-pressured enemas administered by inserting a hose into the anus.'

The alleged victims accidental they believed attending the enactment parties could supply them with exemplary opportunities with Abercrombie and that their careers could endure if they did not comply.

The enactment parties incorporated Abercrombie products, with victims being fixed itineraries for it that did not notation commercialized enactment and 'resembled those often sent to models for photograph shoots.'

When witnesses threatened to exposure what was going on, Jeffries and Smith utilized a information institution to surveil and intimidate them into silence, according to a missive that prosecutors filed successful court. 

'To anyone who thinks they tin exploit and coerce others by utilizing the alleged casting sofa system, this lawsuit should service arsenic a warning,' Brooklyn-based U.S. lawyer Breon Peace said astatine a quality conference. 

'Sexually exploiting susceptible quality beings is simply a crime. And doing truthful by dangling dreams of a aboriginal successful manner oregon modeling ... is nary different,' helium added. 

James Dennehy, the adjunct manager of the FBI’s New York office, called the allegations 'abhorrent.'

Jeffries’ attorney, Brian Bieber, and Smith’s lawyers, Joseph Nascimento and David Raben, said by email they would respond to the allegations successful court. 

Peace said prosecutors person 'a batch of evidence,' including question records, fiscal documents and grounds from accusers and witnesses. 

All 3 defendants are owed aboriginal Tuesday successful assorted courts — Jeffries and Smith successful Florida, wherever they were taken into custody, and Jacobson successful St. Paul, Minnesota, aft his apprehension successful Wisconsin. 

Jeffries became CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch successful 1992 and near successful 2014. The New Albany, Ohio-based company, which besides encompasses Hollister and different brands, declined to remark connected his arrest.

Prosecutors don’t allege that the company’s resources oregon spot were utilized successful the alleged enactment scheme.

Abercrombie past twelvemonth said it had hired an extracurricular instrumentality steadfast to behaviour an autarkic probe aft the BBC reported connected akin allegations from a twelve men.

A suit filed successful New York past twelvemonth accused Abercrombie of allowing Jeffries to tally a sex-trafficking enactment during his 22-year tenure, with modeling scouts scouring the net for victims. At the time, Bieber declined to remark connected the allegations.

Abercrombie & Fitch traces its roots to a hunting and outdoors goods store that was founded successful 1892. By the clip Jeffries arrived a period later, the marque was a retail also-ran.

He was credited with transforming it into a darling of turn-of-the-millennium teen promenade culture, known for its nouveau-preppy aesthetic — and for its sexy ads and store events featuring shirtless, muscular antheral models.