The former boss of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch and his British partner have been charged with running a “prostitution and international sex trafficking business”. Ex-chief executive Mike Jeffries, 80, his partner Matthew Smith, 61, and a third man, James Jacobson, 71, were arrested in the US on Tuesday morning after being charged with one count of sex trafficking and 15 counts of interstate prostitution. A US attorney said Jeffries, who was Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive from 1992 to 2014, used his “power, his wealth and his influence, to traffic men for his own sexual pleasure and that of his romantic partner, Matthew Smith”.