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   A lawyer for billionaire Les Wexner apparently had enough of the   
   businessman’s long-winded answers during a deposition before House   
   Oversight Committee investigators earlier this week — and was caught on   
   a hot mic bluntly telling him to keep his answers to questions about his   
   relationship with Jeffrey Epstein short and sweet.   
      
   “I will f–king kill you if you answer another question with more than   
   five words, OK?” attorney Michael Levy whispered to Wexner about four   
   and a half hours into the former Victoria’s Secret owner’s deposition in   
   the congressional Epstein probe.   
      
   The wild moment was captured on video footage of Wexner’s deposition,   
   which was released in its entirety by the committee on Thursday.   
      
   Wexner, 88, had been asked about how often the disgraced financier   
   performed work for him and proceeded to ramble about all his possessions   
   that needed inventorying, something he explained he didn’t realize was   
   important until he hired Epstein.   
      
   Wexner laughed after receiving the advice from his attorney, the footage   
   showed.   
      
   Levy did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.   
      
   Wexner was adamant that he did not “witness, condone or enable” any of   
   Epstein’s sex crimes.   
      
   The LBrands CEO described Epstein, who managed his wealth for decades,   
   as a “world Olympic con artist” and accused him of having “stolen vast   
   sums” of his fortune before Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor   
   for prostitution in 2008.   
      
   “I completely and irrevocably cut ties with Epstein nearly 20 years ago   
   when I learned that he was an abuser, a crook and a liar,” Wexner said   
   in his prepared remarks. “I was never a participant nor co-conspirator   
   in any of Epstein’s illegal activities.”   
      
   In his testimony, Wexner acknowledged visiting Epstein on his infamous   
   island in the Caribbean once with his wife, describing it as “crummy”   
   and “a pile of rocks.”   
      
   Asked about a salacious letter he wrote for a book compiled ahead of   
   Epstein’s 50th birthday, Wexner said he was “trying to be funny.”   
      
   “He was a bachelor so I drew a pair of boobs,” the lingerie magnate told   
   investigators.   
      
   Wexner could not recall ever being with Epstein and Donald Trump at the   
   same time, but noted they may have “coincidentally” crossed paths at a   
   Victoria’s Secret fashion show.   
      
   “Jeffrey Epstein held [Trump] out as a friend,“ Wexner said, suggesting   
   that he didn’t actually know if the two were close.   
      
   Asked about ex-Prince Andrew, Wexner claimed that they only had “one   
   brief, like, two-sentence phone conversation” about buying and selling   
   aircraft.   
      
   “I never met Prince Andrew … So I wasn’t aware of anything,” he said of   
   the disgraced royal, who was detained for hours Thursday by British   
   authorities over allegations that he shared state secrets with Epstein.   
      
   The testimony appeared to disprove accusations from Reps. Ro Khanna   
   (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who claimed Wexner was one of six   
   men “likely incriminated” by his Epstein ties, citing the retail maven’s   
   appearance in millions of investigative materials released by the   
   Department of Justice in late January.   
      
   Federal prosecutors initially listed Wexner as a potential   
   co-conspirator following Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, but the FBI   
   found “limited evidence regarding his involvement,” according to an   
   email from a New York Field Office agent included in the DOJ’s Epstein   
   files.   
      
   Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial   
   on child sex-trafficking charges.   
      
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