Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief arrested on sex trafficking charges

NEW YORK — 

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries and 2 different men person been arrested connected enactment trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, a spokesperson for national prosecutors said Tuesday.

Details of the transgression charges weren't instantly available. They travel aft years of intersexual misconduct allegations, made successful civilian lawsuits and the media, from young radical who said Jeffries lured them with promises of modeling enactment and past pressed them into enactment acts.

A connection seeking remark was near for Brian Bieber, an lawyer who has represented Jeffries. Information connected attorneys for the different defendants wasn't instantly available.

Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney Breon Peace and FBI and constabulary officials were acceptable to clasp a quality league aboriginal Monday.

Jeffries near New Albany, Ohio-based Abercrombie & Fitch successful 2014.

One civilian suit filed successful New York past twelvemonth accused Abercrombie of allowing Jeffries to tally a sex-trafficking enactment during his 22-year tenure. It said that Jeffries had modeling scouts scouring the net for victims, and that immoderate prospective models became sex-trafficking victims.

Abercrombie past twelvemonth said it had hired an extracurricular instrumentality steadfast to behaviour an autarkic probe aft a study connected akin allegations was aired by the BBC.

The BBC probe included a twelve men who described being astatine events involving enactment acts they said were staged by Jeffries and his partner, Matthew Smith, often astatine his location successful New York and hotels successful London, Paris and elsewhere.

When the civilian suit was filed successful New York past year, Bieber declined to remark connected the allegations.