The Frenchman was indicted for "rape of a minor" and placed under the status of assisted witness for "trafficking in human beings". According to our information, the septuagenarian was found hanged last night.
Former modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in custody, sources close to the case say. The 74-year-old Frenchman, alleged tout of young girls for the benefit of Jeffrey Epstein , the now deceased American billionaire, was indicted in December for "rape of minors" and "sexual harassment".
The suspect had also been placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for acts of "aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation".
According to our information, the septuagenarian was found dead by hanging last night in his cell in the Paris prison of Health. He was found around 1 a.m. during the night patrol. He could not be revived, said a prison source.
An investigation to find the causes of death opened
The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed that Jean-Brunel had been found dead and indicated that an investigation into the causes of death had been opened, entrusted to the 3rd judicial police district. His death means the extinction of public action in this case, unless other people were to be implicated.His name was cited in an investigation in the United States into the sex scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, also found dead in his cell in August 2019.
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Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested in December 2020 at Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he was about to take a flight to Dakar, and was imprisoned following his indictment . He had been released under judicial supervision for a few days last November, before being returned to detention by decision of the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal. He had lodged an appeal in cassation against this judgment.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged in July 2019 in the United States for having organized, between 2002 and 2005, a network of young girls whom he allegedly sexually exploited. The Paris prosecutor's office, alerted by the potential existence of French minors among the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, had opened a preliminary investigation in August 2019.
A complaint was filed two months later against Jean-Luc Brunel for acts of "sexual harassment" which were not time-barred, contrary to several charges against him. According to concordant sources, the Central Office for the Suppression of Personal Violence (OCRVP), in charge of the investigation, had carried out more than half a thousand hearings.
Article (in French. This post was translated)
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Update. Just like with Epstein, cameras were "accidently" not working at the time of this "suicide"
"However video cameras were not running at the time he died in the cell he shared with another inmate."
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