- On July 6, 2019, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in the United States and charged with "trafficking of minors".
- After his suicide in detention on August 10, 2019, the Paris public prosecutor's office had opened an investigation to verify whether he had been able to make French victims.
- If the American police arrested Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday, suspected of being an accomplice of Epstein, the investigations did not lead to spectacular advances in France, but continue in particular around the person of Jean-Luc Brunel , close to the billionaire.
Rosé champagne and grilled steaks. This July 5, 2019, the entry ticket to the Paris Country Club is set at $ 1,300 for a "White Party". A sweater casually thrown over the shoulders as shown in the photos of the party posted on Facebook, Jean-Luc Brunel is having a good time without suspecting that his existence will change the next morning. Nearly 6,000 kilometers away, on the tarmac at Teterboro Airport (New Jersey, United States), his billionaire "friend" Jeffrey Epstein is indeed arrested when he descends from his private jet, coming from… Paris. Immediately, he was charged with "trafficking in minors".
The impact is global. Especially since Epstein ended, on August 10, by committing suicide in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. But the investigations are launched. In France, the prosecution opens a preliminary investigation for "rapes" on August 23 to find out if the billionaire would not have made victims, especially in Paris, where he has, avenue Foch, a magnificent apartment of fifty of rooms spread over 800 m².
At least four young women have denounced Brunel
A year later, investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) continue to work on the Epstein case and on all those suspected of having "supplied" young girls, including Jean-Luc Brunel , modeling agent. Several young women responded to the police's call for witnesses in September.
Some of them have reported acts of assault, rape and even kidnapping. Especially in the Virgin Islands residence that Jeffrey Epstein owned. The charges also relate to Jean-Luc Brunel. According to our information, at least four young women cited him by name before the police. Others have also released the names of other attackers who gravitate in the world of show business. However, their testimony did not allow "spectacular" progress on the judicial level, according to a source close to the investigation. Quite simply because the investigators believe that most of the facts reported are now prescribed.
With the exception of those denounced by the former baby-sitter hired by Jean-Luc Brunel. She claims to have been the target of sexual harassment on the part of this man who has traveled the world to find young girls for his modeling agency. "We have little information from the investigators, but this complaint is not closed and the investigations are continuing," said Anne-Claire Le Jeune, lawyer for several complainants, including this baby-sitter.
On a barge in the Paris region
Still, the main party has not yet been interviewed by the investigators. Through his lawyer, he indicated, several months ago, that he was "at the disposal" of justice. Announced on the run to the four corners of the world, this man, now 74 years old, would have, in reality, found refuge on a barge moored in the Paris region.
Anxious to keep a good opportunity to be able to question him under police custody if non-prescribed charges appear, the investigators have therefore still not summoned him. "It will most likely be one day, one of them slips without specifying" when exactly ". Unless the arrest, this Thursday in the United States, of Ghislaine Maxwell, another close to Jeffrey Epstein, precipitates things.
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