A forgotten 2002 recording just detonated online: former Victoria’s Secret CEO Cynthia Fedus-Fields laughing on stage, “Les was obsessed with youth. Jeffrey brought him the youngest, freshest faces straight off our casting couch, and in return Les wrote the checks that kept the lights on. Everybody won.”
The audience applauded. Today they’re vomiting.
That one carefree sentence turned decades of angel wings and “sexy confidence” into evidence bags. Women who once felt beautiful now feel betrayed, staring at old pink tissue paper and wondering whose silence they helped buy.
Fedus-Fields has vanished into silence. Her words, however, just ripped the glitter off something hideous.
The rest of the tape is worse.
The clip is only nineteen seconds long, but it has already been viewed over 400 million times.
You hear the moderator ask Cynthia Fedus-Fields, Victoria’s Secret CEO from 1998 to 2004, how the brand always managed to find “the perfect girls.” She leans into the microphone with a champagne giggle and says:
“Les was obsessed with youth. Jeffrey brought him the youngest, freshest faces straight off our casting couch, and in return Les wrote the checks that kept the lights on. Everybody won.”
The crowd of retailers erupts in applause. They thought it was a joke about ruthless efficiency. It wasn’t.
Within hours of the resurfaced video, #CastingCouchAngels became the top global trend. Former models started posting the non-disclosure agreements they were forced to sign at 17, 18, 19, some with handwritten notes in the margin: “Mr. Wexner requests private fitting—do not discuss with agents.”
One ex-Angel, now 38 shared a photo of the $10,000 check she received the morning after a “private lingerie presentation” at Wexner’s Manhattan townhouse. The memo line read simply “Thank you for the inspiration.”
Another posted a Polaroid of herself at 17, kneeling on a pink shag rug in nothing but wings, with Epstein’s hand visible adjusting the feathers. She captioned it: “This was my VS contract negotiation.”
Fedus-Fields’ Florida mansion has been dark for three days. Neighbors say the blinds haven’t moved and the newspapers are piling up. Her lawyer issued a two-line statement calling the quote “taken out of context from a lighthearted industry event.” The internet answered with vomiting emojis and fire.
Meanwhile, the full 2002 keynote (leaked overnight by an anonymous account) is infinitely worse. Ten minutes after the “everybody won” line, Fedus-Fields brags that certain girls were kept “off-book” so they wouldn’t appear in payroll records, then jokes that Epstein’s real talent was “making problems disappear before they ever became problems.” The audience laughs again. Someone shouts, “To Jeffrey!” Glasses clink.
L Brands stock is down 19 % in pre-market trading. Storefront gates in six major cities have already been spray-painted with the words YOUTH OBSSESSED in dripping pink letters. A petition to melt down every remaining pair of angel wings into scrap metal has 1.2 million signatures and counting.
Women are emptying closets on TikTok live, stuffing decades of bombshell bras and miracle pushes into trash bags labeled “Evidence.” One mother held up the rhinestone bra her daughter wore to prom and sobbed, “I saved for months so she could feel beautiful. Turns out I paid a predator’s light bill.”
The leaked tape ends with Fedus-Fields raising her glass one last time: “Here’s to staying forever young, forever sexy, forever untouchable.”
The screen cuts to black.
She didn’t know the microphone was still hot when she leaned over and whispered to the person next to her: “As long as the checks clear, the girls will always come.”
That whisper is now the loudest sound on the internet.
The full 47-minute keynote, plus the complete list of models mentioned in the newly unsealed Epstein-Wexner files, is waiting below.
Brace yourself.
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