The former agent of French models Jean-Luc Brunel, close to the deceased American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, was again indicted in an investigation in Paris for rape and sexual assault, we learned Wednesday September 15 from a judicial source , confirming information from the
Parisian
.
Jean-Luc Brunel was indicted at the end of June for
"rape of a minor over 15 years"
, said this source.
This new indictment came after the hearing of a model who accuses her of having raped her in the late 1990s when she was 17 years old, according to the newspaper.
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“Our client has always firmly stated that he has never abused any woman,”
his lawyers, Marianne Abgrall and Mathias Chichportich, responded to AFP.
"This accusation which arises almost 20 years later and without the slightest proof is a new illustration of the media-judicial lynching suffered by Jean-Luc Brunel since the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein"
, they denounced.
The septuagenarian, suspected of having played the role of tout for Jeffrey Epstein and accused of rape by several former top models, had already been indicted in December 2020 for
"rape of a minor over 15 years"
and
"sexual harassment"
. Also placed under the intermediary status of assisted witness for the facts of
“trafficking in human beings aggravated to the prejudice of underage victims for the purposes of sexual exploitation”
, he was imprisoned.
The former modeling agent, whose name is mentioned in an investigation in the United States into the sex scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, found dead in his cell in August 2019, was arrested at Charles-de-Gaulle airport while 'he was about to take a flight to Dakar.
Billionaire financier, Epstein was indicted in July 2019 in the United States for having organized, between 2002 and 2005, a network of young girls that he would have sexually exploited.
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The Paris prosecutor's office, alerted to the potential existence of French minors among the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, opened a preliminary investigation in August 2019. A complaint was filed two months later against Jean-Luc Brunel for acts of
“harassment” sexual ”
which were not prescribed contrary to several charges against him.
Former models, accusing fashion figures of the 1980s and 1990s of having raped them, demanded the imprescriptibility of sex crimes against minors, at a conference in the Senate on Tuesday.
Among them, the Dutch Thysia Huisman, who claims to have been
"drugged and raped"
by Jean-Luc Brunel in 1991.
