The Lerner Shops owned by Meshulam Riklis and purchased by Leslie Wexner (formerly The Limited, now L Brands) in 1985. A timeline of The Lerner Shops. Wexner’s association with child rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has us looking into the details. When Wexner purchased Lerner Shops from Riklis (known as the first ‘Junk-Bond-King | infamous for the leveraged buyout and said to have taught Michael Milken “the ropes”) in 1985 was Epstein involved or was it something else entirely?