{"id":66537,"date":"2026-02-17T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/questions-swirl-over-ohio-billionaire-les-wexners-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:55","slug":"questions-swirl-over-ohio-billionaire-les-wexners-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/questions-swirl-over-ohio-billionaire-les-wexners-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions swirl over Ohio billionaire Les Wexner\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail mogul\u2019s name was this week unredacted from trove of files \u2013 how did he and his model town fuel Epstein\u2019s rise?<\/p>\n<p>Les Wexner\u2019s alleged note to Jeffrey Epstein marking his 50th birthday in 2003 included a hand-drawing of a woman\u2019s breasts.<\/p>\n<p>And yet today, the billionaire Wexner\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/trustees.osu.edu\/wexner-medical-center-board\/wexner-board-members\"> name and portrait sits front<\/a> and center across Ohio\u2019s most respected institution \u2013 the Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/les-wexner-jeffrey-epstein\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail mogul\u2019s name was this week unredacted from trove of files \u2013 how did he and his model town fuel Epstein\u2019s rise? Les Wexner\u2019s alleged note to Jeffrey Epstein marking his 50th birthday in 2003 included a hand-drawing of a woman\u2019s breasts. And yet today, the billionaire Wexner\u2019s name and portrait sits front and center &#8230; <a title=\"Questions swirl over Ohio billionaire Les Wexner\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/questions-swirl-over-ohio-billionaire-les-wexners-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Questions swirl over Ohio billionaire Les Wexner\u2019s ties to Jeffrey Epstein\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}