PARIS (Reuters) – Frenchman Jean-Luc Brunel – who knew deceased sex offender and U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein – has been placed in custody in Paris, reported BFM TV, citing the Paris prosecutor’s department.
Brunel, who has denied any wrongdoing, had in 2015 sued Epstein, claiming Epstein’s high-profile legal troubles had unfairly embroiled him and damaged his modelling agency’s reputation. (https://reut.rs/37u93U1)
Epstein died in August 2019 in his jail cell in the United States, and an autopsy report concluded he hanged himself.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Alison Williams)
