Ex-Abercrombie CEO Has Dementia, Can’t Stand Trial, Lawyer Says
- Jeffries’ condition described in motion for competency hearing
- Former CEO pleaded not guilty to US sex-trafficking charges
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Former Abercrombie & Fitch Chief Executive Officer Mike Jeffries suffers from dementia and late onset Alzheimer’s Disease, his lawyers said, as they sought a hearing on whether Jeffries is competent to stand trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Jeffries, 80, does “not even come close to resembling a Master’s degree-educated individual, who was just nine years earlier the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company,” his lawyer, Brian Bieber, said in a court filing Monday. Bieber said that he questions the ability of Jeffries to “rationally assist — on a sustained and consistent basis — ” his lawyers “in connection with the possible factual and legal defenses to the allegations he was facing.”