Ghislaine is on the clock
PUBLISHED: 06:25 EST, 19 February 2022 | UPDATED: 15:49 EST, 19 February 2022
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Ghislaine Maxwell's family have said they are 'scared' for her safety after Jeffrey Epstein's French modelling agent friend Jean-Luc Brunel, who allegedly procured more than a thousand women and girls for the paedophile financier to sleep with, died today in an alleged prison suicide.
Prosecutors in Paris confirmed Brunel, who is not believed to have been on suicide watch, was found hanging in his cell in La Santé, in the south of the capital city, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
It comes days after Prince Andrew, 62, agreed to settle Virginia Roberts's lawsuit accusing him of sex abuse after they met allegedly through Epstein and Maxwell. In the settlement, there was no admission of liability by Andrew, who has always denied the specific allegations.
Roberts accused Brunel, 76, of procuring more than a thousand women and girls for Epstein to sleep with and he was awaiting trial in France for raping minors.
Following Brunel's death, Maxwell's family described the news as 'shocking' and said they are scared for Maxwell's safety at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she is currently being held.
Speaking from his home in London, Maxwell's brother Ian told the New York Post: 'Another death by hanging in a high-security prison. My reaction is one of total shock and bewilderment.'
Mr Maxwell claimed that despite her psychiatrist advising 'to the contrary', his sister was 'deemed a suicide risk' and said she is woken up every 15 minutes in the night. He described it as 'complete violation of prisoner rights and human rights', insisting that Maxwell is not suicidal.
In December of last year, Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking minors, giving way to federal prosecutors to bring her to justice for her involvement in helping Epstein with luring underage girls before he would sexually assault them.
Her team of four lawyers requested a federal judge to grant her a new trial, saying questions asked to a juror about sexual abuse violated Maxwell's right to a fair trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Brunel's death in an alleged hanging will fuel conspiracy theories around the Epstein affair after the financier also died in prison while awaiting trial in what authorities concluded was a hanging.
Controversy over Epstein's death has been fueled by the fact that prison video cameras at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correction Center were not running at the time Epstein died in the cell he shared with another inmate.
Brunel is thought to have been alone at the time of his death and there were no cameras to record his final hours, according to an investigating source at La Santé – one of the toughest jails in France.
'A night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1am,' said an investigating source. 'A judicial enquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide.'
Jeffrey Epstein's pimp Jean-Luc Brunel 'hangs himself alone in cell with no CCTV': Ghislaine Maxwell's family 'shocked and scared for her' as Frenchman who procured 1,000 women for pedophile financier dies in top-security jail days after Andrew deal
- Jean-Luc Brunel, 76, was found hanging in his cell in La Santé, Paris, at 1am during a night time check in
- The fashion agent was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in December 2020 while trying to fly to Senegal
- He was suspected of being a member of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein's global underage sex ring
- Ghislaine Maxwell's family said they were 'shocked' by Brunel's death and said they are 'scared' for her safety
- Death in an alleged hanging will fuel conspiracy theories around the Epstein affair after he also died in prison
- Brunel is thought to have been alone in the cell and there were no cameras to record his final hours
PUBLISHED: 06:25 EST, 19 February 2022 | UPDATED: 15:49 EST, 19 February 2022
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Ghislaine Maxwell's family have said they are 'scared' for her safety after Jeffrey Epstein's French modelling agent friend Jean-Luc Brunel, who allegedly procured more than a thousand women and girls for the paedophile financier to sleep with, died today in an alleged prison suicide.
Prosecutors in Paris confirmed Brunel, who is not believed to have been on suicide watch, was found hanging in his cell in La Santé, in the south of the capital city, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
It comes days after Prince Andrew, 62, agreed to settle Virginia Roberts's lawsuit accusing him of sex abuse after they met allegedly through Epstein and Maxwell. In the settlement, there was no admission of liability by Andrew, who has always denied the specific allegations.
Roberts accused Brunel, 76, of procuring more than a thousand women and girls for Epstein to sleep with and he was awaiting trial in France for raping minors.
Following Brunel's death, Maxwell's family described the news as 'shocking' and said they are scared for Maxwell's safety at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she is currently being held.
Speaking from his home in London, Maxwell's brother Ian told the New York Post: 'Another death by hanging in a high-security prison. My reaction is one of total shock and bewilderment.'
Mr Maxwell claimed that despite her psychiatrist advising 'to the contrary', his sister was 'deemed a suicide risk' and said she is woken up every 15 minutes in the night. He described it as 'complete violation of prisoner rights and human rights', insisting that Maxwell is not suicidal.
In December of last year, Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking minors, giving way to federal prosecutors to bring her to justice for her involvement in helping Epstein with luring underage girls before he would sexually assault them.
Her team of four lawyers requested a federal judge to grant her a new trial, saying questions asked to a juror about sexual abuse violated Maxwell's right to a fair trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Brunel's death in an alleged hanging will fuel conspiracy theories around the Epstein affair after the financier also died in prison while awaiting trial in what authorities concluded was a hanging.
Controversy over Epstein's death has been fueled by the fact that prison video cameras at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correction Center were not running at the time Epstein died in the cell he shared with another inmate.
Brunel is thought to have been alone at the time of his death and there were no cameras to record his final hours, according to an investigating source at La Santé – one of the toughest jails in France.
'A night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1am,' said an investigating source. 'A judicial enquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide.'
