The Limited

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because it makes our clothes look bad we are and again it's the aspiration with horrible body dysmorphia and nastiness and um fat phobia and all of that but it's aspiration as you say if like some people can't have these handbags some people can't have these clothes so you need to make yourself small to fit into our clothes because they're only for small people but what i didn't realize is at the time i just thought it was fat phobic it never even occurred to me that it was pedophilic But what I figured out later, and I wrote another article for The Nerve about this, I really figured this out because he owned a company called The Limited, which was just like women's wear.

And he made a shop called The Limited 2, T-double-O.

And this was for tween girls.

Now the word tween had been invented, but the concept was just, it was just like kids that weren't teenagers.

Now she was an executive at Victoria's Secret.

She would, and as we got to know her better, I asked her more about like, what did she do at The Limited, right? This is back when, you know, in New Albany, Ohio, The Limited dominated pretty much everything because all the headquarters were there, but I digress.

So I asked Marguerite what she does and she started educating me a lot about how unbelievably well thought out the Victoria's secret stores were.

And so I'll give you guys this one example, but if we're ever sitting around having some coffee, ask me about this.

After being educated at Ohio State University, he began working in his parents' store where he, unasked, embarked on a project of analyzing their inventory to tell them what items to add and remove from their stock.

When his dad didn't put his ideas into practice, Les borrowed $5,000 and started a company called The Limited, which sold mid-range fashions and it went public six years after its founding in 1969.

It expanded significantly and Wexner used the profits to purchase other companies, including Lane Bryant, which specializes in plus-size clothing, which by the way is increasingly most people, as well as the lingerie business Victoria's Secret.

Oh, yeah.

So he says something like, you know, "Your wife blah, blah, blah, blah.

You know, she knows this and that about The Limited.

She knows this and that.

She- I don't think she knows the full extent of the gang-related," quote, unquote, uh, like activities that we were involved in.

Um, and I think that guy has since, I forget his name this second, but I, I think he's since med- he's since made mention of, uh, you know, sort of insinuated that there might have been an element of, like, sex trafficking that, that factored into that, that, you know, Epstein was, like, bringing beautiful women around or they both, you know, uh, kind of, uh, would go, um, you know, would go, uh, and do meretricious, uh, stuff together or whatever.

But, um, but, you know, he ...

So, so he comes to Columbus and then he gets really involved with The Limited, and then Epstein helps, uh, Southern Air Transport, um, the CIA proprietary airline, to relocate.

This, this, this airline that was, you know, one of the main CIA proprietary airlines that was intimately involved in all of Iran-Contra, uh, and doing all of this, you know, gun running and drug running, um, during that period.

Gag me with a spoon." Right? [laughs] The Val- remember the Valley Girl was huge in the '80s, and we used to do that at Girl Scout camp, and we would always, "Oh, my God." But when I saw Karine Jean-Pierre, like that was all, like, "Uh, good morning." Like, she so had that voice, and I've, I've come ba- Like, I use that voice generically a lot.

Like when I was a salesgirl at The Limited and I started doing stand-up comedy, I said that being a salesgirl or the way they trained us, like I, I would say, you know, I, I felt like I had to be very chipper, and I'm like very bouncy.

And I'd be like, "Hi, can I help you? Is it for a good play? What size do you need? Do you wanna try it on? Cash or charge?" You know, so when I, when I saw Karine, like, she reminded me of every sort of, uh, hey, I mean, uh, just every stereotype, um, of that sort of airhead, sort of, uh, no substance, just she, she would seem like a personification of, like, all the, the collected voices that I've been doing in that style.

So when I did that voice, I'm, I'm like, "Does she really sound like that?" And then I've been hearing her all week, I'm like, "Oh, my God, no, she tal-" If you saw any of her interviews, what a fricking fracking train wreck.

I did not know, and this is so, this is so petty and small, uh, but I did not know that gold buttons were back again.

'Cause gold buttons on blazers were huge.

I used to work at The Limited in, um, in Evanston when I was going to Northwestern.

So, uh, you know what was really popular were like, was like red with black trim, almost like British-looking, like riding clothes, sort of that style with like riding boots and everything.

... made Jeffrey Epstein wealthy and everything like that.

But anyway, in the '80s, he is through, through The Limited Inc., which is his holding company, he is trying to buy Carter Hawley.

And one of the things that Carter Hawley does is They, A, issue some capital to a company called General Cinema, but then they also gave General Cinema an option to buy Waldenbooks.

And the reason this is important in the context of the takeover is that by carving out Waldenbooks, the takeover essentially became far less attractive, 'cause Waldenbooks is just a cash cow at this point-

Did you understand him to be wealthy? Answer: I understood him to be an advisor to wealthy families.

I knew he had worked for Les Wexner at The Limited for many years.

I knew later that he worked for the Rothschild family, but I don't think I knew that earlier on when you're asking about.

He basically said he had done tax work and estate planning for half a dozen or so families but was not at liberty to tell me other than Wexner.