Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret Built His Version of the American Heartland
Some CEOs buy sports teams. Les Wexner bought the town of New Albany, Ohio.
Shops in downtown New Albany, Ohio.
Photographer: Maddie McGarvey/BloombergBeyond emerald-green golf links, over snow-white fences, and past tree-lined cul-de-sacs rises the American fantasyland of billionaire Les Wexner.
Here in the middle of Ohio, of all places, Wexner—the man behind Victoria’s Secret and its push-up-bra notions of female beauty—has brought to life his singular vision of the heartland.