After years of criticism for perpetuating harmful beauty standards and lacking inclusivity, Victoria's Secret is having its reputation scrutinized once again, this time in a new Hulu docuseries.
The three-part "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons" (now streaming) features interviews with journalists, former Victoria's Secret models and former company executives, explores the lingerie brand's rise and fall, as well as its former CEO Leslie Wexner's ties to late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
One of the show's disturbing allegations, among many, is that Epstein falsely portrayed himself as a modeling recruiter for the Victoria's Secret catalog in order to sexually assault aspiring model.
Alicia Arden, a model and actress, had recently landed a role in "Baywatch" when she said she met with Epstein in 1997 under the pretense he was a modeling recruiter.
"I have a vast portfolio, and I thought, 'The one thing that might be missing is to get in the Victoria's Secret catalog," she said in the Hulu doc.
Arden said she attended a meeting at Epstein's hotel room in Santa Monica, California, where Epstein asked her to undress and groped her buttocks. She said she filed a sexual battery report with police after the incident.
Wexner had been aware Epstein was misrepresenting himself as a modeling recruiter years before this alleged incident, Cindy Fedus-Fields, former CEO of Victoria's Secret Direct, said in the doc.
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