Jeffrey Epstein Ally Found Dead In French Prison: Prosecutors
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"Jean-Luc Brunel had always maintained his innocence and had intensified his efforts to prove it," the lawyers said.
Prominent French model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of disgraced US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead in his Paris prison cell, prosecutors said Saturday, in an echo of the jail suicide of his friend.
Epstein, arrested in July 2019 on charges of trafficking underage girls for sex, was found hanged in his New York jail cell the following month awaiting trial over abuses against under-age women.
His former associate Brunel, in his mid 70s, had been charged with the rape of minors and held in prison since December 2020.
He was briefly freed in late 2021 but then re-incarcerated on a Paris court of appeal ruling.
