Found dead in prison, Jean-Luc Brunel had already attempted suicide

• Former model agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his cell on the night of Friday to Saturday.

• Indicted for rape and suspected of having played touts for Jeffrey Epstein, he had made several suicide attempts in detention.

• In shock, the victims find it difficult to believe in the thesis of a double suicide of Epstein and Brunel in similar circumstances.

Her accusers are torn between shock and anger.

Placed in pre-trial detention for more than a year after being indicted for two rapes of minors, the ex-model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was suspected of having played touts for Jeffrey Epstein, was found died in his cell on the night of Friday to Saturday.

Like the American pedophile, the French septuagenarian, according to the first elements of the investigation, committed suicide by hanging.

A disastrous end in disturbing circumstances that will have to clarify the investigation, entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police.

Especially since according to our information, Jean-Luc Brunel had tried to end his life several times since he was behind bars.

Contacted by

, one of his lawyers, Me Chichportich, confirms this: during the 14 months of his pre-trial detention in the prison of La Santé (14th arrondissement of Paris), Jean-Luc Brunel "had made several attempts to suicide”.

However, according to the prosecution, he was not placed in an emergency protection cell (CproU).

With rounded corners, paper clothes and tearable sheets, these very rare cells – there are only about a hundred in French prisons – are only used when there is an "imminent" risk of suicide, to 24 hours, pending hospital treatment.

Like the singer Jean-Luc Lahaye or the ex-mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany, Jean-Luc Brunel was on the other hand imprisoned in the district for vulnerable people (QPV).

This "VIP" area accommodates media prisoners or prisoners likely to face violence within the general prison population.

According to the Paris prosecutor's office, Jean-Luc Brunel was alone in his cell, and he was found dead around 1:30 a.m. during a night round by prison guards.

Accusations from the 1980s

The modeling agent had made his breakthrough in Paris in the early 1980s at the head of the Karin agency, notably managing the budding careers of Monica Bellucci and Estelle Lefébure.

Accused of rape in 1988 by a model testifying anonymously in a report by the American program

, Jean-Luc Brunel moved to the United States.

He met Jeffrey Epstein in the early 1990s, apparently through a longtime friend: Ghislaine Maxwell.

The ex-girlfriend of the American financier was recently found guilty of sex trafficking by the New York courts, and faces sixty-five years in prison.

Thanks to a line of credit from Epstein of one million dollars, Brunel opens the modeling agency MC2 in Miami and then in New York.

It is through this agency that he is accused, by several victims of Epstein, of having provided underage girls to the American pedophile.

After the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in August 2019 in his cell in New York and the opening of an investigation in France, Jean-Luc Brunel says he is at the disposal of justice but is in hiding for almost eighteen months.

Then everything changed in December 2020. He was arrested at Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he was about to take a plane to Senegal.

A twist that follows the complaint of Virginia Roberts.

This American says she was held as a "sex slave" by Epstein and forced into several sexual relations when she was a minor: with Prince Andrew (who has just concluded an amicable agreement of more than 10 million euros with her for avoid a civil trial), and with Jean-Luc Brunel.

Indicted for rape as well as for sexual harassment of a former babysitter, Jean-Luc Brunel is also placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for acts of "trafficking in human beings".

During his pre-trial detention, he is also indicted for a second rape of a minor.

Short release at Christmas

Shortly after a suicide attempt, Jean-Luc Brunel was briefly released in December 2021 and spent Christmas with his family.

"The judge of freedoms and detention considered that in the state of the investigation, nothing more justified his incarceration under the law", assures Me Chichportich.

But the prosecutor appealed, and the investigating chamber reversed this decision.

Jean-Luc Brunel returns to pre-trial detention.

With his passing, many questions remain unanswered.

Half a dozen ex-models interviewed by

claim that in the 1980s, Jean-Luc Brunel organized private dinners described as "cattle markets" attended by his friends from showbiz and bosses of big companies.

According to them, vulnerable young girls, in extremely precarious situations, were pressured into having sex against the promise of a

career .

Thysia Huisman, she accuses Jean-Luc Brunel of having drugged and raped her in 1991 – facts denounced prescribed.

She says she is "in shock" after the death of the French agent.

“The victims will never be able to be heard in court.

Brunel is a coward.

He will never face a judge.

“Even if there is no evidence to give credence to the conspiracy theories, she has “hard to believe that he committed suicide.

” Implying that the death of Epstein and Brunel suits many people, the ex-model concludes: “It is as if some wanted to stifle the affair.

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