The Paris prosecutor's office has received a complaint for "sexual harassment" against the agent of models Jean-Luc Brunel, implicated in the Epstein case, for alleged facts that are not prescribed, says Thursday, October 17 the AFP which quotes concordant sources.

The woman behind this complaint will soon be heard by the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP), in charge of the French investigation into the Epstein affair. According to a source close to the case, the facts denounced by the complainant are later than 2015, and are therefore not covered by the prescription.

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Jean-Luc Brunel, a former partner of the agency Karin Models, is suspected of spotting young women for the US financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of raping minors and found dead in prison in early August. The Frenchman has himself been accused of rape by several former top models, including a Dutch girl, now 46 years old. The facts denounced by these ex-dummies are, however, prescribed.

Brunel "at the disposal of justice"

The agent of models, seen early July in an upscale evening near Paris, but had not given any sign of life, challenged "firmly" in early October, through his lawyer, "accusations relayed by the hurry". Mr Brunel "is not on the run" and stands "at the disposal of justice", insisted Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt.

The name of Jean-Luc Brunel had already been cited in the investigation opened in the United States against multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein. One of the main plaintiffs, Virginia Giuffre, said she was forced to have sex with him.

In a first proceeding in the United States, closed in 2007, two women had already accused him of playing the role of reel for Jeffrey Epstein, bringing to the United States girls from modest backgrounds by dangling a career as a model. In 2015, then cold with Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel had denounced "allegations".

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on August 10 in his cell in New York. He was arrested and charged in July for organizing, between 2002 and 2005, a network of young girls with whom he allegedly had forced sex.

With AFP