JEFFREY Epstein’s pal Jean-Luc Brunel who’s alleged to have additionally abused Prince Andrew “intercourse slave” Virginia Giuffre has been discovered lifeless in jail.
French each day newspapers Le Monde and Le Parisian report that the disgraced style agent was based hanged final evening in his jail cell at La Santé in Paris.
Brunel, 76, had been indicted and remanded in custody in December 2020 following accusations of rape and sexual assault of minors – together with three 12-year-old sisters.
He was additionally being probed over human trafficking and being a part of a legal conspiracy amid his affiliation with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Described beforehand because the paedo multimillionaire’s “greatest mate” & “pimp”, he’s believed to have been a key member of Epstein’s inside circle.
Brunel will probably take most of the secrets and techniques about Epstein and his horrific trafficking ring to the grave.
He has escaped justice identical to the paedo multimillionaire himself when he was discovered hanged in his New York cell in 2019.
Prosecutors stated an investigation into the causes of dying has been opened after he was discovered in a single day.
It’s reported that he was discovered lifeless at round 1am throughout an evening test by jail guards.
The French style agent was detained at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to take a airplane to Senegal.
Brunel was reportedly was interviewed after his arrest about his alleged connections with a variety of figures
And that reportedly contains Epstein, and mates of the late pervert financier, together with Maxwell and Andrew.
Brunel denied involvement “immediately or not directly” in any of Epstein’s offences in an announcement issued in 2015.
It stated: “I strongly deny having dedicated any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the middle of my work.”
Epstein sufferer Virginia – who settled a intercourse case this week out of courtroom with the Duke of York – has claimed Brunel “farmed out” modelling hopefuls to the paedo, in addition to different males, for intercourse.
She has additionally claimed she was pressured to have intercourse with Brunel at Epstein’s dwelling.
And she or he alleged that he as soon as arrange a photoshoot with seven Russian ladies which Prince Andrew watched.
In 2020, Virginia additionally went on the assault on Duke over the arrest of Brunel.
“Are you sweating but, Prince Andrew? You have to be. Your buddy Jean-Luc Brunel is behind bars. Keep in mind these ladies he equipped to you on the island?,” she stated.
“Properly, you may need to begin considering of recent allergic reactions cuz you’re about to burn. This piggy will roll over on EVERYONE to save lots of his personal bacon.
“Those that participated on this intercourse trafficking ring must be fearful.”
Andrew has all the time denied any allegations of improper behaviour over his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.
In courtroom paperwork launched in August 2019, Giuffre claimed Brunel was one of many males Maxwell had directed her to have intercourse with whereas nonetheless a youngster.
She claimed in a 2015 affidavit that Epstein bragged he had “slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s ladies.”
Brunel was launched to Jeffrey Epstein by means of his pal Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he had identified because the Nineteen Eighties.
Footage present him cavorting with Maxwell and hanging out with Epstein because the trio are believed to have been shut.
And one picture of him was proven at Maxwell’s trial, displaying him seated beside the paedo because the Brit rubbed his toes.
He’s alleged to have flown three sisters, 12, from a Paris housing property to America in order that they could possibly be abused by Epstein as “a birthday current”.
The style boss is understood to have taken on a minimum of 25 journeys on Epstein’s non-public airplane.
He was a daily customer to the jail the place the paedo was held in 2008, visiting a minimum of 70 occasions.
An avid consumer of cocaine, Brunel as soon as famously defended his drug drawback – saying it was high-quality as a result of he did not us in the course of the day, solely at evening.
A lot of Brunel’s alleged crimes are claimed to have taken place in a Paris condominium owned by Epstein.
In 2019, French cops raided the places of work of Karin Fashions, an company based by Brunel.
Epstein gave Brunel “as much as 1,000,000 {dollars}” in 2004 to assist launch his new modelling company, MC2 Mannequin Administration.
Additionally they searched Epstein’s luxurious Paris dwelling not removed from the Arc de Triomphe.
Brunel began his profession as a mannequin scout, and has labored with celebrities together with Jerry Corridor, Sharon Stone, and Monica Bellucci.
Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt, Mr Brunel’s lawyer, has insisted her consumer is harmless of any wrongdoing.
Proof towards Brunel got here from quite a lot of former fashions, who had waived their anonymity to make their allegations public.
New Zealander Zoe Brock has claimed in statements made to French investigators that she was abused in his Paris dwelling within the early Nineteen Nineties.
A Dutch mannequin, Thysia Huisman, who was 18 when she first stayed with Brunel, stated she was raped by him in 1991.
She is now certainly one of a minimum of 4 alleged victims represented by Anne-Claire Le Jeune, a Paris barrister, who stated Brunel being in custody was an enormous aid, as a result of their complaints now ‘tackle which means,’ she stated.
The Solar shared unique pics of Ghislaine Maxwell cavorting with the suspected rapist — in a snapshot of lurid lie on the paedophile Epstein’s Caribbean isle.
The beforehand unseen images present her playfully wrestling with mannequin company boss Brunel, who was stated in August to be in hiding after being accused of intercourse assaults on younger girls courting again a long time.