Before financier Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, Jean Luc Brunel was seen scouting for models in Uruguay.
Brunel, a model agency boss, had faced accusations of finding young girls for Epstein to allegedly abuse.
Now he has seemingly disappeared, as investigators scour the globe in an increasingly desperate attempt to find him.
The New York Post’s Lee Brown reports:
French authorities want to quiz Jean-Luc Brunel, 72, over his ties to Epstein as part of their own probe into the late financier who had a house in Paris, according to the Daily Mirror.
“He is a ghost who has disappeared without a trace,” a legal source in Paris told the paper of Brunel, who discovered some of the biggest names in modeling, including Christy Turlington and Angie Everhardt.
Investigators have made inquiries throughout the US and Europe, as well as Brazil, where the Frenchman was seen looking for girls just three months before Epstein, 66, was arrested, the paper says.
“There is no address for him, all his internet accounts, including social media, have been wiped out. He is uncontactable,” the source told the Mirror.
Court documents have long connected Brunel to Epstein.