'Epstein's Pimp' Found Dead in Jail Cell; All Public Action in Case to Be Ended

A former modeling agent known as “Jeffery Epstein’s pimp” was found dead in a French prison where he was being held on rape charges.

Officials said Jean-Luc Brunel, 75,  was found dead Feb. 19 after apparently hanging himself overnight, according to a translated report in the French-language LeMonde.

A report in the Daily Mail noted that “His 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.”

Brunel was indicted on rape charges in December 2020 and again in September 2021. His death will end any police investigation into those cases, as well as his potential links with Epstein, who was accused of sex trafficking at the time of his death.

The Daily Mail recounted the events as told by a source it did not name.

“A night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1 a.m. A judicial inquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide,” the source said.

“There is an investigation going on to confirm all this, but at the moment it looks like he killed himself alone, and it was a routine patrol that found his body hanging,” the source said, noting that Brunel was not considered a suicide threat and was kept in a part of the prison where there are no video cameras.

“There were no obvious fears for the prisoner’s health, and he was not on a suicide watch, having already been in prison for many months,” the source said.

Brunel was accused by Virginia Roberts Giuffre — who this week won a court settlement in her lawsuit against