JEFFREY Epstein’s pal Jean-Luc Brunel who is alleged to have also abused Prince Andrew “sex slave” Virginia Roberts has been found dead in prison.
French daily Le Monde reports that the disgraced fashion agent was founded hanged last night in his prison cell in Paris.
Brunel, 75, had been indicted and remanded in custody in December 2020 as following accusations of rape, sexual assault of minors – including 12-year-old sisters.
He was also being probed over human trafficking and being part of a criminal conspiracy.
The French fashion agent was detained at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to take a plane to Senegal.
Prosecutors said an investigation into the causes of death has been opened after he was found overnight.
Le Parisian reports that he was found dead at around 1am during a night check by prison guards.
Brunel will likely take many of the secrets about Epstein and his trafficking ring to the grave – just like the paedo financier himself when he was found hanged in his New York cell in 2019.
The suspected paedo was a close friend of Epstein and Maxwell and is believed to have been involved in their trafficking ring.
Brunel was reportedly was interviewed after his arrest about his alleged connections with a range of figures
This includes Epstein, and mates of the late pervert financier, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Andrew.
Brunel denied involvement “directly or indirectly” in any of Epstein’s offences in a statement issued in 2015.
It said: “I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work.”
Epstein victim Virginia – who settled a sex case this week out of court with the Duke of York – has claimed Brunel “farmed out” modelling hopefuls to Jeffrey Epstein, as well as other men, for sex.
She has also claimed she was forced to have sex with Brunel at Epstein’s home and that he once set up a photoshoot with seven Russian girls which Prince Andrew watched.
In court documents released in August 2019, Roberts claimed Brunel was one of the men Maxwell had directed her to have sex with while still a teenager.
Andrew has always denied any allegations of improper behaviour over his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.
Brunel was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein through his pal Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he had known since the 1980s.
Epstein gave Brunel “up to a million dollars” in 2004 to help launch his new modelling agency, MC2 Model Management.
Brunel is alleged to have flown three sisters, 12, from a Paris housing estate to America so they could be abused by Epstein as “a birthday present”.
Many of Brunel’s alleged crimes are claimed to have taken place in a Paris apartment owned by Epstein.
In 2019, French cops raided the offices of Karin Models, an agency founded by Brunel.
They also searched Epstein‘s luxury Paris home not far from the Arc de Triomphe.
The Celeb Report shared exclusive pics of Ghislaine Maxwell cavorting with the suspected rapist — in a snapshot of lurid lie on the paedophile Epstein’s Caribbean isle.
The previously unseen photos show her playfully wrestling with model agency boss Brunel, who was said in August to be in hiding after being accused of sex attacks on young women dating back decades.
