Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries and two other men have been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, a spokesperson for federal prosecutors says.Details of the criminal charges were not immediately available. Tuesday’s arrest comes after years of sexual misconduct allegations, made in civil lawsuits and the media, from young people who said Mr Jeffries lured them with promises of modelling work and then pressed them into sex acts.AP has sought comment for Brian Bieber, an attorney who has represented Mr Jeffries. Information on attorneys for the other defendants was not immediately available.Brooklyn-based US Attorney Breon Peace, along with FBI and police officials, is set to hold a news conference later on Monday, local time. Mr Jeffries left Ohio-based Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014.One civil lawsuit filed in New York last year accused Abercrombie of allowing Mr Jeffries to run a sex-trafficking organisation during his 22-year tenure. The…
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