Accused sex-trafficker and former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was minimize unfastened from courtroom Tuesday after posting a staggering $10 million bond — and grinned for the cameras as he strolled off.
Jeffries seemed as if he hadn’t a care on the earth as he walked out of federal courtroom in West Palm Seaside, Fla., together with his authorized crew, all smiles and looking out pure A&F in a pair of preppy white shorts and a navy sweater with a polo.
The 80-year-old is accused of wielding “energy, wealth and his affect” to visitors male fashions for his sexual pleasure throughout greater than a decade whereas he ran the style powerhouse.
Jeffries’ “romantic accomplice’’ and alleged cohort in crime Matthew Smith, 61, additionally had a courtroom listening to in Florida on Tuesday on the identical sex-trafficking and prostitution raps and was ordered detained. He’s British.
A 3rd defendant within the explosive case, James Jacobson, 71 — who’s accused of recruiting the opposite males’s victims after which sexually ”making an attempt them out” beforehand — appeared in courtroom in St. Paul, Minn., and was freed on $500,000 bond.
The feds requested that each he and Jeffries be relegated to residence detention with ankle displays.
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