Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO to be arraigned [Video]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. –

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The former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is expected to be arraigned Friday on federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges in a New York court.

Prosecutors allege that for years, Michael Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man lured men into taking part in sex parties by dangling the promise of modelling for the clothing retailer, once famous for its preppy, All-American aesthetic and marketing with shirtless male models.

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In charges announced earlier this week, prosecutors say 15 accusers were induced by “force, fraud and coercion” to engage in drug-fuelled sex parties in which the men were sometimes directed to wear costumes, use sex toys and endure painful erection-inducing penile injections.

The events took place between 2008 and 2015 in the Hamptons, …