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Victoria's Secret took its US website offline and shut down its online customer service operations on Wednesday after what it called a security incident. It's the latest in a string of cyber attacks that have hit retailers around the world. As of Thursday afternoon, the clothing and lingerie seller's US website was replaced with a note to customers saying it was aware of the incident and dealing with it, adding the website and some services were temporarily shut down as a precaution. It did not offer details about what kind of security incident occurred, but said its brick-and-mortar Victoria's Secret...

Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of Jeffrey Epstein who accused some of the world’s most powerful men of sex trafficking, says she had just days left to live after being hit by a bus. The mother-of-three, 41, who was sex trafficked by Epstein as a teenager, shared a battered picture of herself from a hospital bed covered in bruises. She said she was suffering from kidney failure after a bus crashed into her vehicle. -snip- “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. I’m ready to...

Models Valentina Sampaio and Alex Consani strutted down the runway at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York City on Tuesday, becoming the first transgender women to walk in the iconic fashion show. Sampaio shared a video of herself walking in the show — sporting shimmering black lingerie, gigantic black bows tied to her back and a lioness teased hairdo — to her more than 400,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday, thanking the brand for “making a long-held dream come true.” “The Victoria’s Secret family has shown the world that being trans is just as exceptional and beautiful as anyone...

They’re bringing sexy back. Because no one really wanted it to go away. In May, Victoria’s Secret announced their once iconic Fashion Show lingerie extravaganza is “BACK and will reflect who we are today, plus everything you know and love—the glamour, runway, wings, musical entertainment, and more!” But who they are today is basically who they were during their hotness heyday, with a small expansion of their vision of beauty.

A year-old case in Miami Beach, Florida, has resurfaced with the recent release of intense police body camera footage. The video captured the fatal shooting of an escaped convict, Darien Young, by an officer as Young held a girl and a store employee hostage at knifepoint inside a Victoria’s Secret store. The incident unfolded on July 27, 2023, at the Lincoln Road store. Young, 29, had previously escaped from the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, where he was serving time as a minimum-security resident. In the released footage, officers are seen arriving as Young had the girl and employee in...

Like some of you guys, I've made a few stops at Victoria's Secret to purchase a surprise for my wife. I usually did it coming home from a business trip. The store clerks were always super helpful in figuring out such important things as size. It's no secret that most guys don't know their wife's size or number or other details. In my case, I would show the clerk a photo of my wife and she knew exactly what her size was. Perfect batting average, I'll say. I never told my wife that the clerk figured out her number so...

Legendary lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret said its sales took a nose dive after featuring woke soccer player Megan Rapinoe as a brand ambassador. Following the news of poor sales, the company has announced that they’re going back to basics and steering clear of ‘woke’ ad campaigns. The Washington Examiner reports: Lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret plans to withdraw its attempt at being more inclusive with its marketing , reverting to its original reputation in the wake of decreased sales. The brand, known for hiring beautiful models, has tried to diversify its models over the past few years, including plus-size and transgender...

Women’s lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret is reportedly pulling back from its recent woke ad campaigns featuring obese models, transgenders, and anti-American gay soccer star Megan Rapinoe after sales plummeted. In 2021, the sexy underwear company moved away from what it called a “hyper-sexualized” image and dove face-first into a woke remake of its brand. But apparently, the results of this rebranding was a steep loss of revenue, Fox News reported. The rebranding kicked off in July of 2021 when the company named Rapinoe and transgender model Valentina Sampaio its brand ambassadors. At the time, hard-core, left-wing activist Rapinoe had blasted...

Sweetwater, FL - A man accused of stealing nearly 200 pairs of women's panties from two South Florida malls has been arrested. Police arrested 48-year-old Carlos Angel Ramirez Rodriguez on Tuesday for being a serial thief of women's underwear from two Victoria's Secret stores at the Dolphin Mall in Sweetwater and the International Mall in Doral. Ramirez Rodriguez was arrested after Loss prevention officers observed him stealing items on surveillance video and contacted police. Police located Ramirez Rodriguez at a Sweetwater Walgreens, where it was discovered that he was carrying a large amount of Victoria's Secret clothing and other items....

After Victoria’s Secret’s stock price plummeted last week and CEO Amy Hauk announced her departure after just eight months at the lingerie brand, conservative critics were quick to diagnose the company’s failures as a classic case of “go woke, go broke.” It’s an easy, albeit lazy, argument to make considering the brand’s recent shift to “inclusive” models and the cancellation of their iconic “Angels” fashion show, but it ignores broader challenges across the retail industry, especially issues faced by brands with a long-held association with the now nearly extinct shopping malls.Victoria’s Secret introduced its more “inclusive” rebrand campaign in 2021,...

Underwear giant Victoria's Secret has been shaken by controversy because of its politically correct campaigns with obese feminists. Now the Swedish business has gone bankrupt, reports Ecommerce. The company Amarla Retail AB, which runs the Swedish company, has been hit with significant loss figures lately according to Ehandel. The stores in the Mall of Scandinavia, the Galleria in Stockholm and Femman in Gothenburg will be open for a while. Bankruptcy manager Lars Lundberg says the plan is to "try to keep the stores open and maintain sales as before, but now under the hat of the bankruptcy estate".

As Victoria's Secret goes woke, so goes the bad fortune of its shareholders. This is the story: Victoria's Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk announced that she will be leaving the lingerie giant after a brief stint at the company. "Amy Hauk will be stepping down as CEO of Victoria’s Secret and PINK in order to spend more time with her family in Florida," the company said in a statement to Fox News Digital. The once-loved brand has had a tumultuous few years with an attempted rebranding that implemented "woke" policies like removing the iconic "Angels" models as well as the...

Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk, who was also CEO of the company’s Pink brand, announced this week that she is leaving the company after less than a year on the job. “Amy Hauk will be stepping down as CEO of Victoria’s Secret and Pink in order to spend more time with her family in Florida,” a spokesperson for the company said. “Amy has graciously agreed to a managed transition between now and the end of March. There are no plans to replace her role.” The Daily Wire reported over the summer that the company did away with the iconic...

Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk resigned after less than a year on the job – their stock dropped 8% after the news. CNN reported: Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk has resigned less than a year into the job, the company said Tuesday. The company has suffered a public relations black eye since its founder, Leslie Wexner, was found to have ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Many of the company’s recent brand decisions were far cries from the traditional image Victoria’s Secret previously held with consumers, perhaps most notably ending its Victoria’s Secret “Angels” brand, opting for a more inclusive...

It does not appear the feds are willing to return these items. The Court or a Special Master should order them returned. The search warrant in the Mar-a-Lago Raid was so overly broad that it allowed the feds to rummage through vast areas of the complex and to seize almost anything in sight. That reading of the warrant is confirmed now that the Judge has unsealed the Investigative Team Status Review And Detailed Inventory that the Court had required under its prior Preliminary Order. The investigative team status report as of August 30, reflects, among other things: As of the...

The Cultural Revolution has claimed some very attractive new scalps. The Victoria’s Secret Angels and the brand’s signature “miracle bras” are history. As The New York Times recently noted, Victoria’s Secret’s parent company, L Brands, was unacceptably “out of step with the broader culture” but is now “trying to redefine what we consider sexy.” The move comes after 2019 revelations that Leslie H. Wexner, the founder and chairman of L Brands, helped the late child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein meet some of his victims, and presided over what the Grey Lady called “a misogynistic corporate culture that trafficked in sexism,...

This is stupidity. This is insanity. This is suicide. American companies and institutions are purposely destroying themselves. They're ripping apart billion-dollar brands that have taken decades of hard work to build. And they're doing it in a matter of days. They're marching off cliffs like sheep. Keep in mind sheep are idiots. They have no brainpower. They can't think for themselves. If one sheep walks off a cliff, they'll all happily follow. Did you ever imagine CEOs of billion-dollar companies could be as dumb as sheep? Who committed suicide this week? Some of the biggest brand names in America ......

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Victoria’s Secret is undertaking a major brand makeover. The lingerie giant is ditching their legendary Victoria’s Secret Angels and replacing them with ‘trailblazing’ individuals like Megan Rapinoe, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, transgender models, and more. The iconic lingerie retailer is risking alienating its loyal customers to go full on woke. Victoria’s Secret is shifting focus to what they believe women want. And they believe these new models are what women want to be like rather than supermodels.