Prince Andrew's settlementīrunel began his career as a model scout and in 1978 was involved in setting up the prestigious Karin Models agency. She added the victims had the feeling Brunel was 'leaving behind a number of secrets'. It's quite terrible for the victims', she said. 'It took so much courage to be able to speak up, to be heard by the police and the investigating judges. 'Brunel had always maintained his innocence and had intensified his efforts to prove it.'Īllegations from women who say they were abused in France in the Epstein case prompted French prosecutors to open their own investigation.Īnne-Claire Le Jeune, lawyer for the plaintiffs, expressed 'frustration and bitterness over not being able to obtain justice, just as for the victims of Epstein'.

'His tragedy is that of a 75-year-old man crushed by a media-judicial system,' they said in a statement. His lawyers, Mathias Chichportich, Marianne Abgrall and Christophe Ingrain, said his apparent suicide was 'not guided by guilt but a profound sense of injustice'. He was first detained in December 2020 at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Ghislaine Maxwell's 'theory' over Epstein's deathīrunel had denied the charges. Sunrise's Nat Barr questions shock Prince Andrew settlement : 'Why is he paying?' Prince Andrew settles sex abuse lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre Police are now investigating the cause of death, added the source, asking not to be named.īrunel's death means his case is closed unless other suspects are implicated in the same case in the future.

Paris prosecutors later confirmed he had died. Source: US Attorney's OfficeĪ source close to the investigation told AFP Brunel had been found dead overnight Friday to Saturday in the Prison de la Sante. Jean-Luc Brunel (right with Jeffrey Epstein, centre, and Ghislaine Maxwell) has been found dead in his jail cell in Paris.

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