{"id":1314814,"date":"2022-02-19T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314814"},"modified":"2022-02-19T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T22:08:29","slug":"reports-alleged-epstein-pimp-jean-luc-brunel-discovered-hanged-in-french-prison-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-alleged-epstein-pimp-jean-luc-brunel-discovered-hanged-in-french-prison-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Alleged Epstein Pimp Jean-Luc Brunel Discovered Hanged in French Prison Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freports-alleged-epstein-pimp-jean-luc-brunel-discovered-hanged-in-french-prison-cell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314814&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling agent accused of procuring over 1,000 women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was discovered hanging in his Paris prison cell Saturday morning&nbsp; while \u201csecurity cameras were reportedly not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old\u2019s \u201capparent suicide\u201d bears striking similarities to Epstein\u2019s death in August of 2019, where \u201cUS authorities later said that \u2018technical errors\u2019 led to the CCTV footage of the convicted sex offender\u2019s prison cell being lost,\u201d the <em>Daily Express<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1568644\/Jean-Luc-Brunel-dead-latest-prison-cell-hanged-Jeffrey-Epstein-conspiracy\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cA night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1am,\u201d a source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10530247\/Jeffrey-Epsteins-friend-Jean-Luc-Brunel-prison-suicide.html\">told<\/a> the <em>Daily Mail&nbsp;<\/em>of Brunel\u2019s death. \u201cA judicial enquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The <em>Daily Express<\/em> reports that the apparent suicide occurred in a section of the prison \u201cwhere the security cameras were reportedly not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cBrunel is thought to have been alone at the time of his death and there were no cameras to record his final hours, according to an investigating source at La Sant\u00e9 \u2013 one of the toughest jails in France,\u201d <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His lawyers, Mathias Chichportich, Marianne Abgrall, and Christophe Ingrain, released a statement on his death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2022\/02\/19\/affaire-epstein-l-ancien-agent-de-mannequins-jean-luc-brunel-retrouve-mort-en-prison_6114406_3224.html\">according to<\/a> French newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His distress was that of a 75-year-old man crushed by a media-judicial system on which it would be time to wonder.&nbsp;Jean-Luc Brunel has continued to proclaim his innocence.&nbsp;He multiplied his efforts to prove&nbsp;it.&nbsp;His decision was not driven by guilt, but by a deep sense of injustice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several models have leveled accusations against Brunel, who was indicted last June for alleged \u201crape of a minor over 15 years old,\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Le Monde<\/em> reports. Brunel was already in pre-trial detention following previous allegations that resulted in a December 2020 indictment for \u201crape of a minor over 15 years old\u201d and \u201csexual harassment\u201d of two other women.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19944490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19944490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghislaine-Maxwell-Jeffrey-Epstein-USDOJ-exhibit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1229\" height=\"868\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghislaine Maxwell (right) and Jeffrey Epstein. (U.S. Department of Justice exhibit)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In November 2021, he was briefly released from detention under judicial supervision, but after a few days, the Paris Court of Appeal decided to return him to custody, according to <em>Le Monde<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Virginia Giuffre, who settled a sexual-assault civil suit with Epstein pal Prince Andrew out of court last week for $16.3 million, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/16\/how-much-angry-uk-reaction-to-prince-andrew-settlement-with-virginia-giuffre\/\">reported<\/a>, previously accused Brunel of abusing her,<em>&nbsp;<\/em>according to the<em> Daily Express.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a 2015 affidavit, Giuffre stated that Epstein boasted having slept with upwards of 1,000 women that Brunel procured, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/epsteins-alleged-pimp-jean-luc-brunel-found-hanged-in-cell\">according<\/a> to the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money,\u201d Giuffre said in the affidavit. \u201cJeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel\u2019s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19944578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19944578 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Prince-Andrew-and-Virginia-Giuffre.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, left, with Virginia Giuffre nee Roberts, center, and Ghislaine Maxwell, right. (Photo from Virginia Giuffre\u2019s Complaint\/U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In court documents that were filed in both the United States and France, Guiffre said she had \u201c<span>sexual relations with Brunel on several occasion\u201d when she was aged 16-19,&nbsp;<em>Daily Express<\/em> reports.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brunel emphatically denied the allegations, just as the queen\u2019s son did. Brunel was awaiting trial on a date yet to be scheduled when he was discovered dead Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old has faced sexual allegations since the late 1980s, and a CBS documentary that aired in 1988 chronicled models\u2019 allegations that the agent had drugged and sexually abused them, <em>Daily Express<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>In France, the rape of a minor carries a sentence of up to 15 years, per the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling agent accused of procuring over 1,000 women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was discovered hanging in his Paris prison cell Saturday morning\u00a0 while \u201csecurity cameras &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}