Where is Leslie Wexner?

With Ohio's premier teenage lingerie salesman avoiding subpoena service, his personal lawyer is on the hook during Thursday's meeting of the Ohio State University's Board of Trustees.

Left: the only known picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Leslie Wexner. Right: Wexner’s “bawdy” personalized birthday card for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

Last week, NBC News and the Columbus Dispatch confirmed what The Rooster reported on September 26:

Central Ohio’s premier thong salesman, Leslie Wexner, is evading service of a subpoena stemming from the Dr. Richard Strauss lawsuit against Ohio State.

Wexner served on Ohio State’s Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1997, which covered the last decade of Strauss’ 20-year reign of terror at the university.

Wexner earned a second trustee tour in December 2005, coincidentally four months after Strauss hanged himself in a Venice Beach apartment, “steps from the Pacific Ocean,” according to The Dispatch.

Wexner served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2009 to June 2012, quitting eight years before his term was set to expire in May 2020.

Given the timing of his official employment, Wexner would already be in the purview of the lawsuit—even without mentioning his decades-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the dead, international sex-trafficking pedophile.

In July, the Epstein estate, responding to a federal subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, released the first known picture of Wexner and Epstein.

The release also included a personalized so-called “bawdy” birthday card that Wexner wrote to his friend, included in a 50th birthday book where everyone in Epstein’s life made overt references to his sexual perclivities.

It further underscored the absurdity of Ohio State refusing to sever ties with Wexner, who has laughably painted himself as the victim of a decades-long con.

The renowned local football team still practices at the Leslie Wexner Football Center at the Woody Hayes Athletic Complex—a name made possible in part by a $2.5 million donation from Epstein’s “private foundation.”

Wexner’s name is still prominently displayed alongside other bigwig university donors inside Ohio Stadium.

Wexner’s name still adorns the university’s hospital.

That hospital also features the Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Room, despite Abercrombie’s former CEO, Michael Jeffries, whom Wexner hand-picked to resurrect the brand in 1992, facing federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges in the Eastern District of New York—the same office that charged Epstein in 2019.

It’s not surprising, then, that Wexner is trying to avoid a subpoena, like he did when the United States Virgin Islands wanted to ask the billionaire, under oath, about Epstein’s ties to JPMorgan Chase—ties that still vex the House Oversight Committee as of November.

OSU Board of Trustees chairman John Zeiger

Fortunately for Wexner, his longtime personal attorney, John Zeiger, serves as chairman of the Ohio State University Board of Trustees. Zeiger has never had to explain to the public how he could faithfully serve two masters in the impending reckoning.

That conflict of interest is coming to a head on Thursday, when victims of Ohio State’s systemic negligence are expected to picket the meeting while demanding that Zeiger accept subpoena service on behalf of his longtime friend.

Former Buckeye wrestler Tom Lisy painted the picture in a statement provided to The Rooster:

We are here today to publicly express our dismay that Leslie Wexner is avoiding service of a court ordered subpoena for deposition in the Richard Strauss case.

We implore the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, John Zeiger, whose firm, Zeiger, Tigges & Little, represents Mr. Wexner, to accept service on Mr. Wexner’s behalf.

We believe Mr. Wexner’s testimony will shed light on the darkness he presided over as a member and chairman of the Board of Trustees at The Ohio State University.

It’s also worth remembering that in August, the Ohio State Board of Trustees re-hired E. Gordon Gee as the “wingman” to President Ted “Slapshot” Carter.

Gee’s name appeared 33 times in the university’s independent investigation into how the university let a sexual predator operate in broad daylight for over 20 years.

The report named Gee culpable for perpetrating the institutional cover-up, which included Gee granting Strauss the privileged “emeritus” status that allowed Strauss to continue his deviancy in private practice.

If Columbus had anything resembling the corporate press that this city deserves, Chairman Zeiger would have had to explain that move to a surly gaggle on camera, immediately after August’s meeting.

They’ll have another chance on Thursday.

If he doesn’t want to talk, then fine. He should still have to dodge the questions while walking briskly to his personal vehicle in the parking lot.

Will the press go to bat for victims of systemic sexual abuse? Or will Zeiger be allowed to slink off while figuratively carrying Wexner’s water over his shoulders?

The Rooster will be on scene to find out.

“Frank LaRose might be the only one dumb enough to take the job, at this point.”