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Netflix 2022 Doc ‘White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch’ Helped Propel Arrest of Retailer’s Former CEO Mike Jeffries


Netflix's 2022 doc 'White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch' helped lead to the arrest of Abercrombie & Fitch’s former CEO Mike Jeffries.

The 88-minute film, directed by Alison Klayman, served as a building block to bring the clothing store’s condemnable past back into the zeitgeist and ultimately led to the BBC docuseries “World of Secrets: The Abercrombie Guys,” which further opened the doors for people to come forward about Jeffries’ alleged sexual misconduct. The doc alleges that photographer Bruce Weber, who was instrumental in crafting Abercrombie’s marketing that often featured homoerotic shots of half-naked, young, beautiful men, was a predator who inappropriately touched his male models. Jeffries left Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014 following numerous scandals the company faced, including a 2004 class-action suit that accused the brand of discriminating toward Black, Latino, Asian and female employees.

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