LESLIE WEXNER: The Billionaire Who Built Victoria's Secret

LESLIE WEXNER: The Billionaire Who Built Victoria's Secret

Leslie Wexner: The Billionaire Who Built Victoria's Secret is a gripping and unflinching portrait of one of America’s most enigmatic business tycoons. From stocking shelves in his immigrant father’s modest grocery store to orchestrating a retail empire that redefined fashion, branding, and the way America shops, Les Wexner’s story is equal parts visionary brilliance and haunting contradiction. This deeply reported biography pulls back the velvet curtain to reveal the man who turned lingerie into a $7 billion fantasy and shaped modern consumerism through brands like The Limited, Express, Abercrombie & Fitch, and most famously, Victoria’s Secret. With obsessive precision and a sixth sense for consumer desire, Wexner didn’t just sell clothes, he sold aspiration, confidence, and transformation. But beneath the polished empire lay shadows that could not be ignored. From his tight grip on corporate culture to his high-stakes acquisitions, and from the dazzling glamour of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show to his deeply controversial ties with Jeffrey Epstein, this book examines the complex duality of power and responsibility. How could a man so in control of image allow himself to be blindsided by the biggest scandal of his career? Author Hezekiah Jerry masterfully traces Wexner’s rise, reign, and reckoning in this vivid narrative that blends business insight, cultural commentary, and a stark examination of how unchecked ambition and misjudged trust can complicate even the grandest of legacies. Leslie Wexner: The Billionaire Who Built Victoria's Secret* is more than a business biography, it's the story of a man who shaped what America dreamed of, and the price of building that dream behind closed doors.