The former French modeling agent Jean Luc Brunelclose to American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein (who died in prison in 2019), was found dead hanged on the night of Friday February 18 to Saturday February 19, 2022 in his cell in health prison in Paris, AFP learned from a source familiar with the matter.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that this man indicted for several rapes of minors had been found dead and indicated that an investigation into the causes of death had been opened, entrusted to the 3rd judicial police district.
Jean-Luc Brunel, 76, was indicted in December 2020 for “rape of minors” and “sexual harassment” and was placed in pre-trial detention. Charges he disputed. The former modeling agent was considered an alleged tout of young girls for the benefit of Jeffrey Epstein. Jean-Luc Brunel had also been placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for acts of “aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation”.
His death means the extinction of public action in this case, unless other people were to be implicated. His name was cited in an investigation in the United States into the sex scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, also found dead in his cell in August 2019.
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested in December 2020 at Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he was about to take a flight to Dakar, and was imprisoned following his indictment. He had been released under judicial supervision for a few days last November, before being returned to detention by decision of the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal. He had lodged an appeal in cassation against this judgment.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged in July 2019 in the United States for having organized, between 2002 and 2005, a network of young girls whom he allegedly sexually exploited.