Leslie Wexner

Les Wexner hasn't attended a board meeting, despite being chair, in more than a year as scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein grew.

The request was made by four alumni in 2022 after claims that former OSU President William Oxley Thompson established de facto racially-segregated schools in Columbus.

New Albany billionaire Les Wexner, under scrutiny for his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, last attended a Wexner Medical Center board meeting in May 2025.

Cat Predmore, interim executive director for the Wexner Center for the Arts, told WOSU the center has only lost one artist and one donor due to the controversy surrounding billionaire Les Wexner and his connections with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit, filed on March 6 in the New York Supreme Court, names Les Wexner, his charity The Wexner Foundation and a corporation set up to manage a mansion in Manhattan that was owned by Wexner and sold to Epstein as defendants.

Ohio candidates on both sides of the aisle have received money from billionaire businessman Les Wexner, named as a co-conspirator in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.

More than 100 people called on Ohio State to remove Ohio billionaire Les Wexner's name from campus buildings.

In a letter to Nationwide Children's Hospital CEO Timothy Robinson, Ohio Nurses Association President Rick Lucas said any individual publicly tied to the criminal network of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell should have their names removed.

A public records request by WOSU yielded only honorific resolutions the Ohio State University Board of Trustees passed years ago. The request did return an agreement about the Wexner Center for the Arts, which was named for Les Wexner's father.

At a Wednesday deposition, Ohio billionaire Les Wexner denied any knowledge about a donation made to Ohio State by Jeffrey Epstein and Abigail Wexner that led to the naming of the Les Wexner Football Complex.