#360: Death of Jean-Luc Brunel - Modeling Agent Accused of Trafficking Minors

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jim gives his reaction to the recent death by suicide of French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was awaiting trial, accused of having sex with a minor and also under investigation for sex trafficking. Jim opened an investigation into Brunel THIRTY years ago...why did it take the French authorities so long to arrest him? You'll want to hear the backstory on this....

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.8	To the index tonight, an investigation is underway in Paris after a close associate of
0:12.1	disgrace, financier Jeffrey Epstein, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brinnell, was found dead this
0:17.5	morning in his prison cell.
0:19.3	As lawyers say he died by suicide, Brinnell was charged with rape and the trafficking
0:24.6	of minors and was awaiting trial.
0:27.0	Epstein also died by suicide in a New York City jail back in 2019.
0:32.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.
0:38.3	I'm Lisa Zambeady, I'm a casting director, formerly casting a CBS criminal minds and
0:43.8	I'm here with.
0:45.3	Jean Clemente retired at the Apple file reform in the York City prosecutor right reducer
0:49.0	of CBS's criminal minds.
0:51.0	Laura was going to jump on with us, but she's caring for beautiful Rafi.
0:55.4	But Jim wanted to jump on and talk about something that was in the news this week.
1:00.5	Yeah, Jean-Luc Brinnell, who was the friend of Jeffrey Epstein and apparently they colluded
1:08.0	as well as with Glenn Maxwell to sexual assault children, young models.
1:16.2	So the thing is that he had a modeling agency in Paris and typically what happened was
1:22.8	young models in the US would be sent to Paris to sort of get exposure, international exposure
1:28.6	and get in fashion shows during fashion weekend and also get covers of magazines and so forth
1:36.3	to help build their portfolio.
1:38.2	And then they would come back to the US and the US supermodels, right?
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