Former Modeling Agent & Jeffrey Epstein Associate Jean-Luc Brunel Found Dead In Prison Cell
19.02.2022 - 19:59
/ perezhilton.com
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Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling agent who was accused of supplying underage women to Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead in his Paris prison cell.
On Saturday, the 76-year-old reportedly died by suicide inside his jail cell at La Santé where he had been since December 2020, awaiting trial for sexual assault and sex trafficking. Per the French news outlet Le Monde, Brunel was found hanging in the cell by guards during a nighttime check – eerily similar to the way Epstein himself died.
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According to The Guardian, the model scout was the founder of Karin Models but was later banned from the agency in 1999 following an investigation from BBC investigation into the company’s abuse. He then moved to America, where he connected with Epstein who helped fund Brunel’s MC2 Model Management. At the time, Brunel allegedly helped the late financier procure women and underage girls. In 2015, Virginia Roberts Giuffre also claimed that Brunel was one of the high-profile men Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein forced her to have sex with. She also accused him of using the modeling agency to get girls and “farm them out to his friends, including Epstein.” Giuffre added in the lawsuit, per The Daily Beast:
According to CNN, French prosecutors started investigating Brunel in 2019. And in December 2020, he was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport while attempting to board a flight to Dakar in Senegal on counts of “rape and sexual assault, rape and sexual assault on a minor under 15, rape and sexual assault on a minor over 15, sexual harassment, criminal associations, and human trafficking to the detriment of