The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that the agent had been found dead and indicated that an investigation into the causes of this death had been opened, entrusted to the 3rd judicial police district.
Accused of rape by several former top models, which he disputed, the septuagenarian had been indicted at the end of June 2021 for “rape of a minor over 15 years old”. He had already been indicted in December 2020 for “rape of a minor over 15 years old” and “sexual harassment”. He had also been placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for the facts of “aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation”.
His name was cited in an investigation in the United States into the sex scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein, also found dead in his cell in August 2019.
Arrested in December 2020
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested in December 2020 at Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he was about to take a flight to Dakar, and was imprisoned following his indictment. He had been released under judicial supervision for a few days last November, before being returned to detention. He had lodged an appeal in cassation against this judgment.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged in July 2019 in the United States for having organized, between 2002 and 2005, a network of young girls whom he allegedly sexually exploited.