After Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by apparent suicide, and nationwide focus turned toward his alleged accomplices, Jean-Luc Brunel vanished. Here’s what to know about the alleged accomplice, who has reportedly been hiding in South America
Jeffrey Epstein. Photo: Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel has been the subject of disturbing sexual-abuse allegations for decades. Way back in the late 1980s, numerous American models accused him of fostering an abusive culture at his agencies, though he faced no criminal consequences.
He’s a modeling agent. Brunel, 72, is the former head of Karin Models and MC2, two prestigious international modeling agencies. Per the Daily Beast, Brunel was also Epstein’s “closest pal,” and one “the financier’s most frequent male associates.” Three former models have directly accused him of sexual assault. Over the past few decades, three models have alleged that Brunel sexually assaulted them in the 1980s and 1990s in and around Paris.
The two other models who have accused Brunel of sexual assault came forward in mid-August of this year — after Brunel was already hiding. In a report published in the Guardian, Dutch model Thysia Huisman accused Brunel of spiking her drink and raping her in 1991, when she was just 18.
After Brunel took a shower, the woman says he “was grabbing [her] breasts and [her] crotch,” while she kept saying, “Why are you doing this? I don’t want to do this.” She says she escaped by getting out onto the window ledge, where she slept through the night. Brunel was allegedly one of Epstein’s most frequent associates.
At some point, Brunel’s relationship with Epstein turned sour. In January 2015, Brunel sued Epstein over the “adverse publicity surrounding Epstein and his illegal activities,” and claimed that it had left him “emotionally destroyed.”
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