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EPSTEIN CASE: Former model agent Jean-Luc Brunel found dead in jail!

Jean Luc Brunel, former agent of top models, found dead in prison. According to BFMTV, Brunel, who was incarcerated in the prison of La Santé in Paris, hanged himself during the night of Friday to this Saturday.

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to AFP that the man, who is under investigation for several rapes of minors, had been found dead and indicated that an investigation into the cause of death had been opened, entrusted to the 3rd district of the judicial police.

Accused of rape by several former top models, which he contested, the septuagenarian had been indicted in late June 2021 for "rape of a minor over 15 years". He had already been indicted in December 2020 for "rape of a minor over 15 years" and "sexual harassment". He had also been placed under the intermediate status of witness for the facts of "aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation". His death means the end of public proceedings in this case, unless other people are implicated.

His name was mentioned in an investigation in the United States on the sex trafficking involving Jeffrey Epstein, also found dead in his cell in August 2019. Jean-Luc Brunel had been arrested in December 2020 at Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he was about to take a flight to Dakar, and had been incarcerated following his indictment.

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by Anonymousreply 55February 21, 2022 4:30 AM

"According to the first elements that we have, there was no failure on the part of the agents who were on duty that night", explains Erwan S, delegate of the FO penitentiary union for the Ile-de-France. The union wants as proof that the intervention occurred at about one o'clock, and that Brunel's body was not found in the early morning. "This shows that this prisoner was determined to carry out the act. All the rounds were done. On average, there are four to six rounds during the night in the vulnerable persons area (QPV), where Brunel was incarcerated. He chose to commit his act between two rounds. First aid was not able to do anything. It is certain that he was alone in his cell at the time." Le Parisien

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by Anonymousreply 2February 19, 2022 12:05 PM

You mean rich party boy pedo scumbag Jeffrey Epstein hung around rich party boy pedo scumbag Jean Luc Brunel? Wow, what are the odds! Clearly, there must be a huge conspiracy here.

by Anonymousreply 3February 19, 2022 12:07 PM

Jizzlaine beware…

by Anonymousreply 4February 19, 2022 12:08 PM

Clipping all the branches

by Anonymousreply 5February 19, 2022 12:13 PM

This shit storm is bigger than the US and France. Who could this be? So powerful that people got "suicided" in prison.

by Anonymousreply 6February 19, 2022 1:06 PM

The whole Epstein thing stinks of malfeasance. Even to the point of showing his body as it was wheeled out.

Sounds incredible, but what if.....he was not/is not really dead?

Why would his body be shown in photos to the public....being wheeled out of prison? Always wondered why this was allowed or considered a necessity.

by Anonymousreply 7February 19, 2022 1:26 PM

Smart of them to schedule the suicide while the press is focused on Ukraine

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by Anonymousreply 8February 19, 2022 2:43 PM

R7 I agree.

by Anonymousreply 9February 19, 2022 2:57 PM
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by Anonymousreply 10February 19, 2022 3:32 PM

Wow, this is going to fuel the conspiracy theorists so much more. And they may even be right, what are the chances?

by Anonymousreply 11February 19, 2022 3:36 PM

I still think body doubles with authentic DNA samples.

by Anonymousreply 12February 19, 2022 4:00 PM

Strange that he tops himself so soon after Andrew settles his case.

by Anonymousreply 13February 19, 2022 4:44 PM

Pas moi!

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by Anonymousreply 14February 19, 2022 4:48 PM

September 15, 2019

[quote]In official records, Mnuchin is listed as the official state point of contact for Next Management Corporation, a company formed in 1988 by modeling-industry insiders Jean-Luc Brunel and Arnaud Brunel. At the time, Jean-Luc Brunel had just been the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary accusing him of drugging and raping at least three models.

[quote]Records accessed by The Daily Beast list Mnuchin as the New York Department of State process for Next Management Corporation. According to department officials, the DOS process is the person who files a company’s registration papers and receives lawsuits and other official documents on their behalf—usually a lawyer or some other legal representative.

[quote]Mnuchin’s office did confirm that he was longtime friends with Faith Kates, the owner of the Next modeling agency. The Brunel brothers co-founded the Next agency with Kates in 1989, and their company, Next Management Corp., owned a 25 percent stake in the agency for several years. The address listed under Mnuchin’s name in the state department records is the first address for Kates’ company, Next Management Company.

[…]

[quote]Mnuchin has been friends with Kates for approximately 30 years, according to the Treasury Department official, and once helped Kates set up a business “as a friend.” A spokesperson for Kates confirmed the two had been friendly for decades. She said Mnuchin had offered Kates business advice when she started Next Management Company and served as her real-estate broker.

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by Anonymousreply 15February 19, 2022 6:00 PM

R11 = conspiracy theorist

They're not right. People facing serious charges commit suicide in prison all the time. Why do conspiracy wingnuts think no one ever commits suicide and every single suicide is really a murder staged to look like a suicide?

by Anonymousreply 16February 19, 2022 6:18 PM

Security cam was not working - again.

by Anonymousreply 17February 19, 2022 6:38 PM

He had a good chance of not getting convicted. France LOVES rapists, especially men who rape kids.

The regular citizens absolutely LOVE them, hate to convict them and they celebrate rapists. Roman Polanski and Gabriel Matzneff are the French patron saints of child rapists. The French call pedophilia, seduction

The French don't have to hide their sick sexual behavior with children. They proudly show off their victims in public

The French are disgusting.

by Anonymousreply 18February 19, 2022 6:41 PM

He never calls, he never writes, R18.

I condole you.

by Anonymousreply 19February 19, 2022 7:09 PM

Ghislaine, you in danger, gurl!

by Anonymousreply 20February 19, 2022 7:20 PM

The Epstein connection is that Brunel is alleged to have procured hundreds of girls for him.

by Anonymousreply 21February 19, 2022 8:02 PM

I see.

Bien sur, Jan.

by Anonymousreply 22February 19, 2022 8:21 PM

Oh, well... Heaven needed another angel.

by Anonymousreply 23February 19, 2022 8:48 PM

[quote]The Epstein connection is that Brunel is alleged to have procured hundreds of girls for him.

Among other things.

January 9, 2015

[quote]The boss of a hot New York modeling agency supplied Jeffery ­Epstein with underage girls for an orgy with Prince Andrew, court documents claim.

[...]

[quote]Brunel scored US passports for girls as young as 12 — then passed the minors off to pervy pals like Epstein, according to court documents.

[...]

[quote]Epstein also ordered [Virginia] Roberts to watch while he, Brunel and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell had kinky romps with dozens of underage girls, according to court papers.

[quote]When Epstein was tossed in jail for soliciting sex from a minor, Brunel allegedly visited him 67 times.

[quote]In 1988, “60 Minutes” interviewed models who said they were drugged and raped by Brunel.

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by Anonymousreply 24February 19, 2022 9:04 PM

Thank God he never met that retarded Puerto Rican model.

by Anonymousreply 25February 19, 2022 9:08 PM

Did his venture have any relationship with Trump Model Management?

by Anonymousreply 26February 19, 2022 9:17 PM

I was just about to post the same thing r26...I find it funny that Trump never gets mentioned in al this. He was part of it. He and Epstein got their start with John Casablanca. Another pedo. Trump Model Management was KNOWN to traffic underage Eastern European girls. And dont forget, Trump trademarked Trump Escorts in China...by some strange coincidence there was a string of massage parlors in Florida trafficking in Chinese girls and using them as sex slaves (see Robert Kraft), and the owner, Cindy Yang happened to be a member of Mar A Lago. I could be wrong. Maybe Trump Escorts gives guided tours of Beijing.

by Anonymousreply 27February 19, 2022 9:30 PM

[Quote] So powerful that people got "suicided" in prison.

So powerful that POWERFUL people got "suicided" in prison.

One does not have to be a conspiracy nut to see the connection between the two prison deaths.

Yes ^^, Ghislaine beware. Should not she be specially protected? Oof this is Dan Brown stuff.

by Anonymousreply 28February 19, 2022 10:02 PM

Is “ got suicided” grammatically correct?

by Anonymousreply 29February 19, 2022 10:15 PM

R29 No, it hurts my eyes.

by Anonymousreply 30February 19, 2022 10:16 PM

How about "got Pentangelied?"

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by Anonymousreply 31February 19, 2022 10:25 PM

R29 No I don't think it's grammatically correct either. But it seems to be usage these days.

by Anonymousreply 32February 19, 2022 10:31 PM

I wouldnt be surprised if Maxwell and "her people" were the ones to silence Epstein and Brunel...remember, Maxwell is the one with all of the upper echelon contacts. Shes the one common denominator. Her dad was "taken out" also. (not saying its related)

by Anonymousreply 33February 19, 2022 11:01 PM

That's a little black book somewhere.... The murderers' names and numbers are in there.

by Anonymousreply 34February 19, 2022 11:05 PM

That would be a goldmine.

by Anonymousreply 35February 19, 2022 11:08 PM

[quote][bold]Brunel lived for a while in an apartment in Trump Tower[/bold], but moved out in 1999. The New York Post reported he was forced to leave “because of late-night carousing with beautiful women”. Brunel denied this, saying the rent was too high.

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by Anonymousreply 36February 19, 2022 11:16 PM

Hopefully his time will come, R27.

[quote]“I really despise Jean-Luc. … This is a guy who should be behind bars,” John Casablancas, the late modeling agent, told journalist Michael Gross, whose book Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women alleges that Brunel repeatedly drugged and raped models. According to Casablancas, Brunel and his pals “were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would invite girls and put drugs in their drinks.”

[quote]And Casablancas, who married a 17-year-old when he was 50, would have known, having used his stature in the modeling business to indulge in similar activities with young girls at a Look of the Year modeling competition at the New York Plaza Hotel, with his friend Donald Trump, then the hotel’s owner. Trump was closely involved with the contest, in which the average age was 15, and, according to The Guardian, several of the models said that they were required by their agency to have dinner with Trump and Casablancas.

[quote]Trump’s behavior at such events is unclear, but, according to The Guardian, “The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse, or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape.”

[...]

[quote]As the Epstein operation chugged along, Trump, who had married three models—Ivana, Marla, and Melania—was very much part of Epstein’s picture. According to court records, message pads confiscated from Epstein’s home showed that Trump called Epstein’s West Palm Beach mansion a number of times.

[quote]Asked under oath in a September 2016 deposition whether he ever socialized with Trump in the presence of girls under the age of 18, Epstein punted. Rather than answer the questions, he took the Fifth.

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by Anonymousreply 37February 19, 2022 11:25 PM

I remember when all of this first came out — it’s been there the entire time we’ve lived through this nightmare. Since he was running for office!!! So this was out *before* he became President of the United States. Doesn’t that embarrass you at all? It does me.

And how is he still even alive? I’m honestly asking the question. So the US government is simply not set-up in such a way as to actually hold our Executive branch accountable for criminal activity anymore? This story should have been DEALT WITH. Now, it almost looks like the Fed had no case and now they’re trying to stop Orange from running, blahblahblah, you know the conspiracy is coming! It feeds perfectly into their sick little narrative they will use to justify their violence.

by Anonymousreply 38February 19, 2022 11:31 PM

Where was Hillary Clinton?

by Anonymousreply 39February 19, 2022 11:32 PM

The French owner of Elite Models Agency, Gerald Marie, is next. He dud the same. Many models have come forward which launched an investigation in Paris. Carrie Otis Sutton has filed a civil case against him in NYC

Marie is living in Ibiza now, but he can't hide forever.

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by Anonymousreply 40February 19, 2022 11:41 PM

Anyone who could possibly squeal is being taken out!

Andrew? Hilary? Trump? Maxwell?

by Anonymousreply 41February 20, 2022 12:01 AM

[quote]That's a little black book somewhere.... The murderers' names and numbers are in there.

A little black book? There are films, audio, video, photos.... Epsteins primary business wasn't trafficking, it was blackmail. The whores were just a means to an end.

by Anonymousreply 42February 20, 2022 12:07 AM

So where are the recordings? Hidden it destroyed?

by Anonymousreply 43February 20, 2022 12:33 AM

^^or

by Anonymousreply 44February 20, 2022 12:33 AM

If there was a payoff, it was most likely from the guys to look the other way and turn off the camera so they could avoid spending the ends of their lives in jail.

Is there any chance the settlement between Giuffre and Prince Andrew included a promise Andrew would cooperate with her in future litigation or with the government?

by Anonymousreply 45February 20, 2022 12:41 AM

R36, I doubt Trump would object to carousing with women...

by Anonymousreply 46February 20, 2022 12:43 AM

r45 The purpose of a settlement is to make it go away without having to publicly acknowledging the conduct and reason for the payout.

by Anonymousreply 47February 20, 2022 12:45 AM

R18 The amount of bullshit you said here. The French love pedophiles? Because Jeffrey Epstein is French? Woody Allen is French? Michael Jackson was French? Is Prince Andrew French? You needed to spew your hatred for the French but pedophilia is not part of what the regular french likes. The frecnh call pediophilia seduction???? You son of bitch, garbage of humanity.

by Anonymousreply 48February 20, 2022 1:00 AM

These Americans have a thousand times more cases of pedophilia than the French but they dare to claim that France loves pedos. Unbelievable this nation of crazy people is not only destroying the world, it is a country of retards.

by Anonymousreply 49February 20, 2022 1:03 AM

"In the 1990s, Paris-born Brunel was a model talent scout and boss of the prestigious agency Karin Models. After he was banned from the agency in European 1999 following a BBC undercover report on abuse in the fashion industry, he moved to the US and founded MC2 Model Management with funding from Epstein. He is credited with discovering a number of supermodels including Christy Turlington and Milla Jovovich. He met Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s partner, in the 1980s and she had introduced him to Epstein."

So he had connexion with Epstein from the start.

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by Anonymousreply 50February 20, 2022 1:29 AM

That's how the French do it. To avoid highly uncomfortable public enquiry and questions no one wants to ask or answer. Whether it be Muslim terrorists or sex crime offenders. Shoot 'em dead in the street, suicide 'em in jail et voila! No very embarrassing questions, no one's the wiser, back to biz as usual.

Same thing happened to Epstein.

by Anonymousreply 51February 20, 2022 7:26 AM

"That's how the French do it"

"Same thing happened to Epstein"

Some people on here are on crack.

by Anonymousreply 52February 20, 2022 7:31 AM

girls, girls, you're both ghastly!

by Anonymousreply 53February 20, 2022 2:53 PM

Remember DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, she "killed" herself!

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by Anonymousreply 54February 21, 2022 4:13 AM

I wish him well.

by Anonymousreply 55February 21, 2022 4:30 AM
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