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The Wexners haven't been honest about Jeffrey Epstein for at least 18 years

New revelations have eviscerated Ohio State's original defense about a $2.5 million donation from Jeffrey Epstein's private foundation in 2007.

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D.J. Byrnes
Dec 17, 2025
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Jeffrey Epstein’s only known client, Central Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, has claimed for the past six years that he severed ties with the disgraced financier on Sept. 4, 2007.

As noted by the Wexner Foundation’s report in Feb. 2020, Wexner had accused Epstein of misappropriating “vast sums” of his money by funneling it into the financier’s obliquely …

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