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Roy Raymond was the founder of? $5.1 billion dollar Victoria’s Secret??intimate apparel line, which he started in San Francisco, California in 1977. He opened his first Victoria Secret’s Shop in Stanford Shopping Center with a $40,000 bank loan and another $40,000 from relatives. (Wish I had relatives with that kind of money when I started ) In his first year in business Victoria Secret’s earned $500,000 and by the time he sold it for $1 million in 1982?his five shops and booming mail-order catalogue was grossing $6?million a year….what the hell is wrong with this guy? He must have been in some kind of debt or owed a large amount of money to sell a $6 million dollar a year company for?only $1 million?:(.??

Years later Roy Raymond started My Child’s Destiny and was a specialty retail store for children. It went bankrupt in 1986…maybe had something to do with his suicide years later. He was found dead by Marine County shoreline on September 2, 1993 hours after being seen walking around the Golden Gate Bridge. Investigators later confirmed that it was a suicide.

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