Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Far from being stopped or shying away from illegal activity, this foreign born former A+ list model finder/agency head is taking advantage of his notoriety and is shipping tweens and early teens by the dozens from South America to the rest of the world for “modeling” assignments.

The vast majority of these girls have not been heard from again.

Jean-Luc Brunel

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein’s Pal Jean-Luc Brunel Quietly Sells Off His Infamous Modeling Biz

Modeling mogul Jean-Luc Brunel is quietly selling off his MC2 agency in Miami, The Daily Beast has learned—while authorities in France search for him as part of their investigation into his friend, the millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The 74-year-old talent scout has long been accused of supplying underage girls to Epstein and of drugging and raping models himself. Brunel denied both of these charges.

Brunel reportedly vanished after Epstein’s jailhouse suicide, and French prosecutors want to speak to him about Epstein’s abuse of minors abroad. Last week, cops searched his Parisian home and the offices of Karin Models, the agency Brunel led before launching MC2 Model Management. Brunel created the agency MC2 in 2005, reportedly with $1 million from Epstein, who regularly housed Brunel and MC2 models at his Manhattan apartments, according to the testimony of a former MC2 bookkeeper.

But while Brunel has dodged the press in recent years, he’s allegedly already sold MC2’s assets in New York and is currently in a deal to sell MC2 in Miami. The French agent also helped to create at least two new boutique modeling firms: The Identity Models in New York and 1 Mother Agency in Kyiv, Ukraine, former employees say.

And MC2’s Miami location is allegedly in the process of transferring its assets to The Source Models, an agency run by MC2 executives Jeff Fuller and Petra Pedraza. A representative for The Source said MC2’s location in Miami will shut down.

Staff at MC2’s third location in Tel Aviv did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Brunel has claimed MC2 lost business over his ties to Epstein. In 2015, he filed a lawsuit in Florida state court against the financier, claiming, “MC2 was worth millions of dollars; now, due to the illegal actions of Epstein, MC2 is almost worthless.”

The fashion industry veteran also denied any connection to Epstein’s sexual pyramid scheme—which involved enlisting underage girls for “massages” in his Palm Beach and New York mansions. Epstein would molest the girls or even rape them, and had some of his victims recruit even more minors for him to abuse.

But Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Epstein kept her as his “sex slave,” identified Brunel as a purveyor of minor girls. In a 2015 affidavit, Giuffre said Epstein groomed her for sex with his powerful friends including Brunel and Prince Andrew (who also denies the allegations).

“Brunel would offer the girls ‘modeling’ jobs. A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money,” Giuffre stated, adding that Brunel joined Epstein and gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell for orgies with children in locations including the U.S. Virgin Islands, New Mexico and Palm Beach.

“Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim,” Giuffre said.- Source

Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook

This we know: On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, a prolific pedophile and the most high-profile prisoner in America, died early in the morning in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. His death was described in official reports as a suicide, the first to occur in decades at the MCC, where conditions could best be described as squalid.

Practically the rest of the Epstein story remains in dispute, though some impressive investigative reporting and courageous victim testimony have brought much-needed clarity. With seemingly endless cash and connections, Epstein had spent decades abusing young girls with impunity, save for a sweetheart plea deal his lawyers secretly negotiated with the federal government in 2007. Without Julie K. Brown’s reporting in the Miami Herald, published in 2018 as a series called “Perversion of Justice,” Epstein might never have been arrested, for the final time, at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on July 6, 2019.

The year since Epstein’s arrest has spawned a raft of reportage, podcasts, feverish Reddit threads, books, and documentaries. Recent entries include Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, produced by James Patterson, who previously wrote a book about Epstein, and A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein, an investigatory book by the journalists Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper.

The Netflix special, spread over four episodes, contains painfully revealing interviews with some of Epstein’s many victims. But there’s an obvious conflict of interest at the heart of the project: Patterson, who has a house in the exceedingly wealthy town of Palm Beach, Florida, as did Epstein, is a friend and literary collaborator of Bill Clinton, who for a time was a friend and traveling companion of Epstein. In a two-year period, Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet, nicknamed the Lolita Express, 26 times. The connection raises the question of whether the Netflix documentary, while valuable for its centering of victim testimony, is a whitewashing of the upper-crust social milieu that protected the millionaire pedophile and allegedly partook in his human-trafficking ring, which furnished hundreds, or even thousands, of teenage girls for the enjoyment of Epstein and his associates.

With a few exceptions, A Convenient Death is about as up to the moment as the sluggish book-publishing industry might allow. A product of two conservative journalists, it’s not shy about indicting the liberal media’s complicity when it comes to burnishing the Epstein myth (he’s a demon now, but for years publications like New York magazine reported on Epstein as a mysterious financial savant). It also considers Bill Clinton’s close association with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who played the roles of Epstein’s sexual partner, madam, and fixer. According to the authors, Maxwell likely carried on a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton in the early 2000s. She also became close friends with Chelsea Clinton. In 2009, Maxwell, whose current whereabouts are unknown, was served a subpoena in an Epstein-related lawsuit while attending a Clinton Global Initiative conference devoted to human trafficking, a subject she likely knew much about. That embarrassment didn’t stop her from attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding the next year, nor from attending later CGI events. – Source


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