A French modeling agent linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell, the Paris prosecutor's office told NBC News.
have spoken to police since the French probe began in 2019, and at times expressed frustration with the slow pace of the investigation.“It makes me angry, because I’ve been fighting for years,” Huisman, a Dutch former model who told police she was drugged and raped by Brunel as a teen, told The Associated Press. “For me, the end of this was to be in court. And now that whole ending — which would help form closure — is taken away from me.
A lawyer representing Huisman and other victims, Anne-Claire Le Jeune, said other women involved in the case feel the same.She expressed doubt that the investigation would lead to a trial, because Brunel was so central to the case. She also voiced concerns that Brunel's death means his accusers won’t get any official recognition of their status as victims.She expressed hope that Brunel's death won't discourage women from continuing to speak out about abuse.
Brunel was named in U.S. court filings, too. The spokesperson for the prosecutors who charged Epstein in New York declined comment on Brunel's death. For Giuffre and other victims, the news of Brunel's death was “devastating,” according a statement from her lawyer, Sigrid McCawley. Guiffre herself tweeted: “The suicide of Jean-Luc Brunel, who abused me and countless girls and young women, ends another chapter. I’m disappointed that I wasn’t able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison.”“For the women who have stood up and called for accountability from law enforcement around the world, it is not how these men died, but how they lived, and the damage they caused to so many.
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