From Small Towns to Epstein’s Homes: Allegations In Brazil Continue To Grow (5/21/26)

Summary

The Epstein Chronicles
Episode: From Small Towns to Epstein’s Homes: Allegations In Brazil Continue To Grow (5/21/26)
Host: Bobby Capucci
Release Date: May 21, 2026

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Overview

In this episode, host Bobby Capucci examines explosive new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s predatory operations in Brazil and South America, drawing from a Miami Herald investigation and recently released U.S. Department of Justice records. Capucci scrutinizes how Epstein, with collaborators like Jean Luc Brunel and Ramsay El Coley, allegedly exploited Brazil’s poorest regions, trafficking young girls—often under the guise of modeling opportunities—into his international network of abuse. The episode focuses on survivor testimony, the mechanisms of trafficking, and official investigations underway, all while Capucci underscores the persistent failures of justice and media accountability.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Epstein’s Under-Examined South American Pipeline

• Capucci points out that “one of the least explored areas of Epstein’s predation was down in South America,” emphasizing a growing realization that Epstein managed an extensive human trafficking pipeline stretching from Central to South America (01:00).
• Reports from Maritza Vasquez, a former bookkeeper for model agent Jean Luc Brunel, helped bring early attention to these operations.

2. Recruitment Mechanisms & Modeling Scam

• Epstein targeted girls as young as 13, recruiting them with fake promises of modeling work and expensive gifts. Collaborators included model scouts, especially Brunel, who worked through agencies like MC2 Model Management and Karen Models (02:30).
• Luxury gifts (designer handbags, appointments at celebrity salons like Frédéric Fekkai) were used to lure victims from impoverished backgrounds.

3. Visas & Immigration Fraud

• The operation relied heavily on immigration fraud, with agencies applying for U.S. visas under false pretenses for these girls. Epstein would finance the legal bills for each application, amounting to thousands per applicant (03:30).
• Capucci is appalled:

  “The amount of immigration fraud that we see here is absolutely absurd … how is that not a bigger conversation, considering the implications?” (03:40)

4. Direct Testimony and Evidence

• In depositions, Vasquez confirms some girls brought to the U.S. by Brunel's agency "never actually worked as models, but were instead sent to parties Epstein hosted …"—some even lived at his homes (04:20).
• Capucci questions the credibility of those close to Epstein who claim ignorance, referencing Ms. Vickers’ Congressional testimony:

  “How can you be at Epstein’s house all the time and not see those girls? … I don’t buy it.” (05:20)

5. Business Deals & Emails Exposing Intent

• In mid-2010s, Epstein and Ramsay El Coley discussed buying Brazilian modeling agencies. A 2016 email demonstrates their intentions:

  El Coley: “Maybe just buy Brazil for a couple hundred K. That will ensure a steady stream of punani.” (06:00)

• Explicit evidence reveals sexual exploitation was the true aim behind these “business ventures.”

6. Case Study: Victim Agency and Exploitation

• The Miami Herald verified several specific cases but is withholding victim identities.
• Capucci stresses the importance of protecting women and blaming the perpetrators, not the trafficked girls (07:15).

7. “Catwalk to Hell”: Pattern of Abuse through Modeling Competitions

• Vasquez’s deposition (2010) and subsequent lawsuits detail how Brunel and Epstein trawled modeling competitions in South America and Europe as “hunting grounds.”
• Highlighted case: 2004 contest winner (“15-year-old from Brazil”) flies on Epstein’s jet several times between New York, Paris, and Little St. James (08:00).

8. Control, Manipulation, and Psychological Abuse

• Epstein demanded absolute control—documented in chilling emails rebuking women for minor “infractions” and forcing compliance (12:00).

  Epstein: “You only think of your own pleasure … you think of yourself, but not of me.” (12:15)

• Another example: he instructed a model to remove her piercing, insisting “That would have showed seriousness. You, you didn’t.” (12:40)

9. Official Inquiries and Continued Cover-Ups

• Brazilian prosecutors have now launched an investigation into Epstein’s activities in Brazil; current details remain sealed (07:00).
• Capucci highlights a familiar pattern of delayed justice and lack of accountability, even after Epstein’s death and Maxwell’s arrest.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the magnitude of trafficking:

  “If what Epstein and his pals were doing in Brazil is not human trafficking, I don’t know what is.” (14:30)

• On societal complicity:

  “All the people that say there was no trafficking operation … they can eat a whole gigantic bag of soggy orangutan dicks.” (06:30)

• On the vulnerability of victims:

  “That might not sound like a lot to you, but if you come from a place where you have nothing, no money, no hope, nothing, that’s a whole hell of a lot. And Brunel and Epstein, they knew that and they exploited it.” (08:30)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:00 – Introduction to the South American trafficking network, focus on Brazil
• 02:30 – Mechanisms of recruitment and exploitation
• 03:30 – Immigration fraud and how it fueled trafficking
• 04:20 – Maritza Vasquez’s deposition; girls living at Epstein properties
• 06:00 – El Coley’s email: intentions behind buying Brazilian agencies
• 08:00 – Example: 15-year-old Brazilian model, international travel, evidence of abuse
• 12:00 – Examples of Epstein’s psychological control
• 14:30 – Capucci’s closing challenge to trafficking deniers

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Tone & Style

Capucci’s delivery is blunt, skeptical of official narratives, and fiercely critical of both trafficking enablers and media neglect. He often uses direct, colloquial language, and injects dark, sardonic humor to underscore the disturbing absurdities and failures of accountability in the Epstein case.

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Conclusion

This episode spotlights newly uncovered depth and brutality of Epstein’s operations in Brazil, emphasizing the calculated exploitation of poverty-stricken girls under the pretense of glamorous opportunity. Through survivor testimony, official records, and chilling correspondences, Capucci paints a devastating picture of global complicity and institutional neglect, urging listeners to confront the reality of international trafficking and its enablers.

Transcript

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Visit your nearby Lowe's Foreign what's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. One of the least explored areas of Epstein's predation was down in South America. But now more people are starting to turn their focus to the fact that Epstein was running a human trafficking pipeline that expanded not only through Central America, but all the way down to to South America. And one of the first people that told us about this was Maritza Vasquez. And when she was deposed about Jean Luc Brunel, MC Squared and Jeffrey Epstein, she had some very, very damning things to say. And considering her testimony, I find it hard to believe that people out there still deny that Jeffrey Epstein was the mastermind of an international sex trafficking ring. Now, is that the only thing he was doing? Of course not. But it most certainly was a huge part of the machine. And in today's episode, the Miami Herald is now talking about Epstein and Brazil. So there's no headline here on the article besides Epstein bringing girls from Brazil, Basically. So we're just going to dive right in. Like I said, this article was published by the Miami Herald, and the author of this article is Shirsho Dazgupta. While on the hunt for young women and underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly turned to Brazil. He lured girls as young as 13 with promises of lucrative modeling work and other enticements to entrap them into sexual servitude. According to a Miami Herald investigation based on the millions of pages of records released earlier this year by the U.S. justice Department, the disgraced financier worked with model scouts, including Epstein's former business partner, Jean Luc Brunel to recruit the girls, often from small towns and poor families, to woo them. He would shower them with gifts like luxury handbags and secure appointments with top hairdressers like celebrity stylist Frederick Faki. And this isn't new to you, you've heard all of this, but it just reinforces what we've been talking about now for, what, years? And how long ago did we talk about Ms. Vasquez and the deposition and whatever came of it? Nothing. Just like everything else in this absolute abomination of a case. In the early 2000s, Epstein would jet down to South America, attending modeling competitions and keeping up with the hottest Brazilian plastic surgeons to handle nips and tucks on his prospects. He owned an apartment in the upscale Villa Olympia neighborhood of Sao Paulo and allegedly invited women to luxury hotels in the city, asking them to disrobe in front of him. That all checks out. And these are just the women that are coming forward. Can you imagine how many women have stories to tell that aren't going to come forward? At the heart of Epstein's recruiting operation were Brunel and his agency, Karen Models oh of America. The two men later used Brunel's MC Model Management, that had a prominent branch in Miami Beach. But bringing in the women and girls was a tricky business, requiring an employer to sponsor visas. Brunel's agencies applied for the visas on behalf of the women, claiming that they were going to work in the United States. Epstein would then foot the legal bills, several thousand dollars for each applicant. The amount of immigration fraud that we see here is absolutely absurd. And I have no clue how it's not a bigger conversation. I mean, how is that not a bigger conversation, considering the implications? In one instance, Brunel brought over four girls from the same Brazilian agency to Epstein, according to a deposition given by one of Brunel's former bookkeepers, maritza Vasquez, to two of them were aged 13 to 15. She could not recall the agency's name. Vasquez had previously told the Herald that some of the women the agency managed never actually worked as models, but were instead sent to parties Epstein hosted at his Palm beach and Manhattan mansions. That's what they were there for. They were kept in those apartments. And then when Epstein wanted to abuse them or whatever, he'd have them come over. And he even had some of these little girls living with him, according to Ms. Vasquez. So I wonder if anyone's going to ask Ms. Vickers today while she's, you know, in front of Congress about that. How can you be at Epstein's house all the time and not see those girls running around doing what they were doing? It just doesn't match reality. And I'm sorry, I don't buy it. In the mid 2010s, Epstein also explored the possibility of purchasing a Brazilian modeling agency himself, in partnership with musician and model scout Ramsay El Coley. Maybe just buy Brazil for a couple hundred K. That will ensure a steady stream of punani, el Kohli wrote in a December 2016 email to Epstein, using the Jamaican patois slang for a vagina. Think about the implications of what that man said and think about the fact that these girls were so young, girls coming from Brazil. But Epstein was operating alone. There was no human trafficking operation. Right. And all the people that say that they can eat a whole gigantic bag of soggy orangutan dicks. The Herald sent questions to Alcoholi via his attorneys, but did not receive a response. The Herald was able to identify several women who were recruited into Epstein's network, but is not revealing their identities because some were minors at the time and possibly as victims. Earlier this year, Brazilian prosecutors launched an investigation into Epstein's activity in the country. Though details are currently under seal, the prosecutors confirmed that while they want to speak to the women, they're not targets of the probe and they shouldn't be. They should not be the targets of the probe. The target should be Alcholi and all these other scumbags that were involved with Epstein. And this is interesting considering that my series that I put together when it comes to Maritza Vasquez and the deposition was called the Catwalk to Hell. Well, you know what? This section of this article is named. You got it. Catwalk to Hell. Bruno would often drive the women he recruited to Epstein's properties, his accountant Vasquez said in a deposition in 2010. The deposition was part of a civil suit one of Epstein's victims had filed against him two years prior. She alleged that Epstein and Brunel, who died in French custody in 2022 while under investigation for rape and trafficking women to Epstein, would travel to Brazil, where they would solicit sex workers. There were underage girls, she said, like 16, 17, 18 and 2004. Brunel founded and judged the inaugural Models New Generation competition. Records reviewed by the Herald show the contest, held that year in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, had dozens of participants from around the world. Well, what do you know? Just another fertile hunting ground for good old Jean Luc Brunel, a 15 year old from Brazil was the winner. Eight logs suggest that Epstein was in attendance on the final night of the two week competition on August 25th. The records also show that the winner was a passenger on Epstein's private jet several times that year, flying between West Palm Beach, New York, Paris and Little St. James, the financier's private island in the Caribbean where he allegedly sexually assaulted countless women and girls. Allegedly. Pretty sure that that happened. The Herald was able to identify one Brazilian woman who who provides a case study of how Epstein enticed his victims by paying for their travel, giving them expensive gifts and securing appointments at Fakai salons. And look, that might not sound like a lot to you, but if you come from a place where you have nothing, no money, no hope, nothing, that's a whole hell of a lot. And Brunello and Epstein, they knew that and they exploited it. The women, the record show, underwent some surgical procedure in Sao Paulo that Epstein paid for two days before he was released from the Palm beach county stockade on July 22, 2009 after serving 13 months on a charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor. The records do not state what kind of surgery it was. Oh, I'm sure it was something to do with making her quote unquote more attractive for Epstein and Brunel. These two dudes were so sick that it's almost hard to quantify that evil.

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