In a letter sent to Paris Prosecutor Remi Heitz seen by AFP on Saturday, a 46-year-old Dutch woman says Jean-Luc Brunel drugged and raped her at his Paris appartment in the early 1990s, shortly after she turned 18.
French prosecutors opened an inquiry last month into suspected sex trafficking and alleged cases of rape and sexual abuse of women, including minors.
Brunel has emerged as a key figure in the scandal surrounding the US billionaire, who committed suicide in a New York jail last month.
Brunel has been accused in court documents of rape and of procuring young girls for Epstein, charges he has denied in the past.
But since Epstein’s arrest in July – just as he returned from a trip to Paris, where he kept an apartment – Brunel, formerly a high-powered model scout, has not been heard from publicly.
In her letter, the former Dutch model said several girls lived in Brunel’s apartment near the Champs-Elysees, where every day “rich businessmen were accompanied by very young girls.” – READ MORE