Wexner, who was on the OSU board of trustees when Dr. Richard Strauss preyed on students, is also scheduled to testify before Congress about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Billionaire Leslie Wexner has been ordered to testify in a lawsuit brought by a group of former Ohio State University students who say they were sexually assaulted decades ago by campus doctor Richard Strauss and their alma mater did nothing to stop him.

The ruling, which was handed down Tuesday in the Southern District of Ohio, was a victory for the ex-students, who have been trying since September to compel Wexner, a former member of the OSU board of trustees, to testify.

The Strauss survivors held noisy protests at the end of last year after they alleged Wexner’s security and lawyer had repeatedly thwarted their process servers’ attempts to deliver a subpoena to Wexner. At the protests, they repeatedly brought up his past friendship and business relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They also publicly demanded that Wexner’s name be removed from a football facility that was built with his money.

It took the intervention of U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson in January to finally serve Wexner with a subpoena by using alternative means, prompting the billionaire’s lawyers to file a motion last month to quash that subpoena.

In his ruling on Tuesday, Watson acknowledged Wexner’s complaints about being subjected to a “publicity campaign” but denied the motion to quash the subpoena.

“Plaintiffs are entitled to discover what Mr. Wexner knew about Dr. Strauss and when he knew it,” the order states.

Wexner, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing in the Strauss case, was an OSU board member when Strauss allegedly abused young men at the school, mostly under the guise of doing physicals, from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.

Strauss was never charged in relation to the abuse allegations, but the results of an OSU investigation published in 2019 found that “at least 177 male students were sexually abused by Strauss.”

Wexner must sit for a deposition within 60 days, according to the court order.

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