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A French modeling agent named Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his jail cell following an apparent suicide.
76-year-old Brunel was an associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He allegedly died by hanging himself while awaiting trial in France for raping minors.
“Video cameras were not running at the time he died in the cell he shared with another inmate,” the Daily Mail reported.
Brunel was accused in a lawsuit of procuring “more than a thousand women and girls for Epstein to sleep with,” the Daily Mail wrote.
He was awaiting trial in France for raping minors.
The lawsuit was filed by one of his accusers, Virginia Roberts.
JUST IN – Jean-Luc Brunel, the former model scout who's been accused of trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey #Epstein, "found dead" in his prison cell in France. pic.twitter.com/ZgKHN5m2tu
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“Prosecutors in Paris confirmed Brunel was found hanging in his cell in La Santé, in the south of the capital city, in the early hours of Saturday morning,” the report detailed.
“It is not known whether Brunel was sharing a cell or whether there was any CCTV footage inside.”
“A night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1am,” an investigating source said. “A judicial enquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide.”
In August 2019, the New York City Chief Medical Examiner concluded that Epstein hanged himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
“Initial autopsy reports that revealed Epstein broke several bones in his neck, including his hyoid, a U-shaped bone in the front and middle of the neck, led conspiracists to suspect foul play,” Business Insider reported.
“The bone can be broken during suicide by hanging, but is more commonly associated with strangulation, although medical experts and the coroner who oversaw Epstein’s autopsy say he died by suicide.”
Epstein reportedly knelt on the floor of his cell with the bed sheet around his neck and used it to hang himself while the two guards tasked with overseeing him supposedly slept.
Epstein was found unconscious at around 6:30 AM, after three hours of not being checked on.
A jury found Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, guilty in a sex trafficking trial in December.
“The jury found Maxwell guilty on five of six counts … including conspiracy to entice individuals under 17 to travel in interstate commerce with intent to engage in ‘illegal sexual activity,’ conspiracy to transport individuals under 17 to travel in interstate commerce with intent to engage in ‘illegal sexual activity,’ transportation of an individual under 17 with intent to engage in ‘illegal sexual activity,’ conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of individuals under 18, and sex trafficking of an individual under 18,” The Daily Wire reported.
Maxwell is facing up to 70 years in prison.
