Featured Image: Jean-Luc Brunel on Australia’s Next Top Model in 2008. Fox 8
In a story that reads more and more like a wild fiction, one has to wonder “What Now?”. The sordid details that have come out since Jeffrey Epstein’s first arrest in 2007 for child sexual abuse is staggering. Not only was Epstein a man who collected underage girls to use as he wished, he gathered around him a team of lawyers and celebrity friends to keep him safe from going to jail for a really long time.
A question often throw back into the faces of underage victims is, “Where were your parents?” It seems as those Epstein had the perfect cover in the man named Jean Luc Brunel. Brunel is co-owner of MC2 Modeling Agency, and they specialized in young women — most specifically, MC2 sought out girls from Eastern Europe, economically disadvantaged homes, and were promised lucrative modeling jobs.
According to a Daily Beast article, first published in the summer of 2019, Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre told the court, “’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,”. It is disgusting to think of how many broken and shattered lives these two men have brought into the world.
What is utterly despicable is how long the modeling industry has known about Brunel’s proclivities towards young girls. Apparently, Diane Sawyer interviewed several of his models in 1988 on the American news-talk show 60 Minutes. Brunel’s reputation for drugs and rape was well known even then and was brought to light. Still, the victims were obviously silence and Brunel was allowed to continue on — business as usual.
All of this makes the fact that Brunel has disappeared even more frustrating. All his social media accounts have been wiped clean, he has no address to be found and has ghosted everyone. With Jeffrey Epstein now dead from apparent suicide (and before justice could be served), several young girls previously abused by these sick animals were probably hoping for retribution in some form.
New York Post news writer, Isabel Vincent, writes that Brunel was seen scouting talent just three months before his buddy Epstein was arrested the last time. She also writes:
Brunel — who has not been charged with a crime — has vigorously denied all allegations against him in the past, and model world insiders told The Post he continues to work as an agent and scout for MC2, which once counted Epstein as an investor.
Jeffrey Epstein’s talent-agent pal spotted scouting ‘fresh flesh’ in Brazil before Epstein arrest – New York Post, August 24, 2019
In the era of the #MeToo movement, this is a huge blow for those fighting for the safety of our young girls and women. If men like Epstein are constantly given passes on their behavior, because they are rich and have connections, what does that say about the American Justice system? If men like Brunel are allowed to run from their problems, and never made to come to heel, what does that say about the global culture surrounding the rights of women?
