<div><p>The chairman and chief executive of Limited Brands Inc., which operates Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works specialty chains, received compensation valued at almost $6.9 million in 2008, up 32 percent from a year ago, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing.</p><p>Leslie ...

<div><p>In the middle of these cartoonishly dismal times, what’s a cosmetics executive to do if she wants to ask nearly $100 million for her penthouse? She’ll put it on the market without actually putting it on the market, just like a venture capitalist, a widowed philanthropist, a pharmaceuticals mogul and a Victoria ...

<div><p>By January 1996, the billionaire Les Wexner hadn’t spent two months in his 21,000-square-foot stone mansion on East 71st Street, even though he had bought the place seven years earlier, his protégé Jeffrey Epstein told The Times. Never mind that it had been outfitted with a hidden lead-lined bathroom (with a closed-circuit ...