Jean-Luc Brunel, the modeling agent who was accused of supplying underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead Saturday in his prison cell in Paris, where Brunel was largely held behind bars since December 2020 as French authorities pursued charges of sexual abuse and sex trafficking against him.
Much like Epstein’s own death in August 2019, the 75-year-old Brunel reportedly died by suicide before he could stand trial, with Le Monde reporting that Brunel was found hanged in his cell during a night check.
Brunel, who the Guardian reports was credited with discovering models like Christy Turlington and Milla Jovovich during his tenure at Karin Models, was banned from the agency in 1999 following a BBC investigation into abuse in the modeling agency. Brunel then moved to the America and linked up with Epstein, who funded Brunel’s U.S.-based MC2 Model Management.
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