Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries appears in court in sex-trafficking case

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries emerged connected Long Island Friday — sporting an ankle bracelet tucked into his sock — days aft he and 2 others were charged successful a bombshell sex-trafficking case involving young antheral models.

Jeffries, 80, who’s free connected $10 cardinal bond, walked into Central Islip national tribunal wearing a suit, a achromatic garment and a GPS ankle locator astir 11:45 a.m., up of his 3 p.m. arraignment.

The disgraced manner leader — who near nan clothing institution successful 2014 aft 22 years — is expected to participate a plea earlier Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione to 16 counts of activity trafficking and prostitution.

Jeffries is charged alongside his romanticist partner Matthew Smith, 61, and alleged middleman, James Jacobson, 71, of luring astatine slightest 15 young antheral aspiring models to activity parties astir nan world wherever Jeffries and Smith sexually abused them, prosecutors allege.

Jacobson — who is besides expected to participate a plea Friday — is accused of recruiting nan young men pinch nan committedness to thief boost their modeling careers aliases moreover get them jobs arsenic A&F models, nan feds claim.

The middleman would person nan targets first execute activity acts connected him to trial them retired for Jeffries and Smith’s sick plans and past Smith would person to o.k. nan candidates that Jacobson referred to him, tribunal papers allege.

The victims — who were arsenic young arsenic 19 — were often subjected to achy penis injections to induce erections and they endured nan insertion of ample objects successful their anuses and high-pressured enemas delivered utilizing a hose, prosecutors allege.

The men were fixed narcotics and lubricant and had their genitals shaved by Jeffries and others to prep them for nan alleged “sex events” that took spot astatine Jeffries’ homes successful Manhattan and successful nan Hamptons and successful hotels astir nan world, nan feds claim.

Jeffries and Smith poured millions of dollars into moving nan sex-trafficking and adultery cognition that took spot from astatine slightest 2008 done 2015, tribunal papers allege.

The trio of defendants first appeared successful tribunal earlier this week wherever Jeffries was released by a Florida judge connected $10 cardinal enslaved pinch physics monitoring done a GPS ankle show and Jacobson was freed connected $500,000 enslaved by a judge successful St. Paul, Minn.

An arraignment for Smith — a UK autochthonal — hasn’t been scheduled yet arsenic he was held without bail connected relationship if nan truth he’s an alleged formation consequence successful Florida national tribunal Tuesday and must beryllium transported to New York to look successful nan case.