New Accusations Emerge from Paris Epstein's French Operation
New allegations emerge involving Epstein's Paris apartment operations, where he allegedly recruited victims in Francea dimension of his trafficking network that was less covered in U.S. proceedings.
People Involved
In 2017, new accusation accounts surfaced involving Epstein’s operations in Paris, where he maintained an apartment and allegedly conducted abuse facilitated by his associate Jean-Luc Brunel of the MC2 modeling agency. French authorities opened investigations that ran parallel to the U.S. proceedings.
Brunel, a French modeling scout and agency operator with ties to Epstein going back decades, was accused of providing young women and girls to Epstein and of committing his own abuses. Brunel died by suicide in a French prison in 2022 while awaiting trial.
The French dimension of the Epstein case illustrated the international scope of his trafficking network and the involvement of associates who operated in European modeling and social circles.