{"id":93173,"date":"2024-10-27T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93173"},"modified":"2024-10-27T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:52:46","slug":"abercrombie-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/10\/27\/abercrombie-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Abercrombie on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from the world of real-life crime.&nbsp; <strong>Patrick <\/strong>in San Francisco writes, <em>\u201cI know you wrote about that guy from <\/em>Abercrombie <em>in the past.&nbsp; I saw he was just arrested.&nbsp; What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former <em>A&amp;F <\/em>CEO <strong>Mike Jeffries <\/strong>was arrested and charged with 15 counts of prostitution and sex trafficking.&nbsp; Of course, most of these charges have been enumerated in the various documentaries about the case, but let me briefly recap.&nbsp; It\u2019s been alleged by many very attractive young men that they were pressed into various sexual activities at various locales with the promise of becoming <em>A&amp;F <\/em>models.&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t surprised that Jeffries pled not guilty.&nbsp; I was surprised that he was placed under house arrest after posting a $10 million bail bond using his home as collateral.&nbsp; Until his next court hearing on December 12<sup>th<\/sup>, he is prohibited from contacting co-defendants, witnesses, or victims.&nbsp; Well, that\u2019s his whole address book.&nbsp; Who does that leave?&nbsp; Probably not his partner, <strong>Matthew Smith<\/strong>, who was arrested but not arraigned&#8230;yet <u>(<\/u>although the judge did rule that the British citizen not leave the country).&nbsp; Another person arrested but not yet arraigned was their \u201cassociate\u201d <strong>James Jacobson<\/strong>, who helped \u201cprocure\u201d the boys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When most of these stories take place in Southern Florida, it\u2019s definitely time to end yet another column.&nbsp; Didn\u2019t I mention that Jeffries and Smith were arrested in West Palm Beach?&nbsp; Not even Palm Beach proper!&nbsp; Oh, the humanity.&nbsp; Of course, more classic <strong>Billy Masters<\/strong>&nbsp;content can be found on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that breaks no laws&#8230;only commandments.&nbsp; If you\u2019ve got a question for me, send it along to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before I get my car back from the shop!&nbsp; Before we wrap up, a reminder \u2013 get out and vote.&nbsp; You know what I say \u2013 vote early, vote often.&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question comes from the world of real-life crime.&nbsp; Patrick in San Francisco writes, \u201cI know you wrote about that guy from Abercrombie in the past.&nbsp; I saw he was just arrested.&nbsp; What\u2019s going on?\u201d Former A&amp;F CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested and charged with 15 counts of prostitution and sex trafficking.&nbsp; Of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93174,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93173\/revisions\/93174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}