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Mega Edition: AnneMarie Ettekoven And Virginia Roberts Put Jean Luc Brunel On Blast (4/12/26)
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Annemarie Ettekoven publicly described Jean-Luc Brunel as a predatory figure who operated with impunity inside Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, portraying him as a man who openly trafficked in young girls and treated sexual exploitation as routine. She stated...
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What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest dirt bags in the history of Jeffrey Epstein and his whole ass criminal enterprise was most certainly Jean Luc Brunel. This is a man that literally was involved with Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit for from the very beginning, all the way through Jeffrey Epstein's death. And this is a man who tried to deny his involvement with Epstein at every turn, even going so far as to sue Jeffrey Epstein over a business deal that he says went wrong. But the truth is this. Jean Luc Brunel was one of the biggest procurers of women in the history of sex trafficking. He brought women in from all sorts of places around the world, most of them war torn, most of them poverty stricken, and most of them, as far as the women go, were brutally abused not only by Jean Luc Brunel, but by Jeffrey Epstein and God knows who else. Today's article is from the Daily Mail and the headline, I was driven to a chateau and raped by Epstein's friend, a top model agent keeping the train ticket. I used to escape helped put him behind bars. Four decades later, and just like his good pal Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Luc Brunel died while he was behind bars. This article was authored by Lisa Brinkworth. It was an incident that shaped her life forever. When Ann Marie Edda Koven was raped at the age of 20, it destroyed her confidence and crushed her career as a model before it had even begun. Now 65, a softly spoken woman with a steel resolve who works as a historical archivist, she says that after the assault she felt so stupid and ashamed that she kept her trauma to herself. And I have heard this from numerous women. I can't tell you how many women have reached out to me and told me the same thing. And it's just all bad. I can't even imagine living with that kind of secret, that kind of burden, thinking that nobody's going to believe you, thinking that this powerful man is untouchable and you just have to go through your life suffering. And unfortunately for a lot of these women, the answer to that is yes. They just go on suffering for their whole lives. I was very cautious after that, she says. I'm quite sure I chose the profession I did because it is behind the scenes. There is a grim irony then to the fact that she and other victims of a rapist are now at the center of a scandal causing headlines around the world because the man she accuses of raping her was French model agent Jean Luc Brunel. And not for nothing, but Jean Luc Brunel had one of the most punchable faces in the history of punchable faces. Just looking at this man elicits anger in me and makes me want to punch him. Earlier this year, when the Epstein files were unsealed by a US court, documents relating to the affairs of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Brunel's name featured prominently. It sent a chill down Edekoven's spine. Indeed, bit by bit, the testimony of women like her is shining a light on the links between Epstein and Brunel and providing horrifying insight into what appears to have been an industrial scale trafficking ring between the US and Europe. In the words of John McClane, welcome to the party, pal. I've been telling you folks that this guy's been the conduit to Europe for how long? And not just me, multiple people have said this and people in the know. But instead of focusing on people like Jean Luc Brunel, we've had a lot of people that want to talk nonsense, people that want to talk about kids being eaten on islands and you Know, a whole bunch of dumb shit that takes the spotlight off of people that it should really be on. You know, you got people talking about Tom Hanks and great, I get it. You don't like him, fine. But when you try and insert him into this story where he doesn't belong, and it takes the spotlight off of people who really deserve to have that spotlight put on them. And one of those people, without a doubt, is Jean Luc Brunel. Once named king of the Catwalk, Paris born, Brunel was a model scout who worked with some of the industry's top names, including Jerry hall and Monica Bellucci, and took credit for discovering models Christy Turlington and Milla Jolovich. But on his travels, he also scoured cities for girls he could groom and sexually exploit. RA Reportedly providing Epstein with more than a thousand victims. Bingo. Finally somebody gets the number at least partially correct. We've talked about the thousands of victims that Epstein's had, and very rarely do you hear people talk about it, because guess what? Anybody in Epstein's circle who was abusing these girls, you better believe that Epstein was getting a taste. This is a man who had proclivities and he needed to satiate that thirst. So Jean Luc Brunel was somebody that was bringing these girls in hand over fist. We've heard that Jean Luc Brunel was the man responsible for bringing Jeffrey Epstein some triplets for his birthday. And we also have heard that it was Jean Luc Brunel who facilitated the sale of Nadia Marcinkova to Jeffrey Epstein from her parents. So this is not new stuff. This is all stuff that we've talked about and at length here. And finally, it looks like other people are catching on. Fashion provided the perfect cover for their depravity. Brunel's now dissolved MC2 agency, for example, which represented models who walk for lingerie brand Victoria's Secret, was allegedly used to lure teenage girls with offers of modeling work. Epstein was finance advisor to Victoria's Secret billionaire chief executive Les Wexner. And just to touch on MC2 real quick, Epstein was a silent owner of that company. He funded that company's, you know, creation. He gave that money to Jean Luc Brunel. Epstein and Brunel are now dead, having apparently committed suicide in their respective prison cells while awaiting trial. I mean, if you want to believe that, okay, I guess. Epstein died at the age of 66 in the US in 2019, having been charged with the trafficking of minors. And Brunel at 75 in France in 2022 while awaiting the end of criminal investigations for rape, rape of minors, sexual harassment and human trafficking. Involved in all that shit, by the way. And just to add to that a little bit, let's remember Jean Luc Brunel was a regular at the palace when Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein would roll over there too. So that's nice for the monarchy, huh? Brunel had been arrested and charged after accusations of rape by Virginia Roberts, the woman who claims she was paid by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, which the prince denies. For Edekoven, it is time to tell her story. Robbed of her chance to look Brunella in the eye from the witness box, she is adamant that the world should know exactly what he did to her. I just want the family to realize that their loved one was, was not who they thought he was, she says. He was twice married but had no children. Some of Brunel's surviving relatives are still hurting the victims by publicly proclaiming that he is innocent. They won't accept that he did anything wrong that is very cruel to his victims. You know, they've really circled the wagons. And as far as, like Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean Luc Brunel, imagine being their family member and then circling the wagons for them. I got news for you. If I would have heard about any of my family members, what I heard at Maxwell's trial, it would be a complete cutoff. 0 Talking to you, no letters, no money for top ramen on your books. There are some things that I just can't forgive and close to the top of that list is any form of human slavery. In fact, many of the women who have so far spoken out about Brunel tell very similar tales of isolation and imprisonment and assault, pointing to a calculated and brazen MO. Today, Etta Coven lives a quiet life just outside Amsterdam. Her priorities are her work, her husband and their two grown up children. When she was 19, she traveled to Paris to study art history at the Sorbonne. She found work as an au pair to a mother who had been a successful model with the Paris Planning Agency. I'd been working for her for a while when she suggested I could make it as a model and we went together to see Paris planning. It was May 18, 1979. At the desk they told me that I was beautiful, but because I had no experience, I should start at a smaller Paris agency. She was directed to the Paris Karen agency where she met the head booker, Jean Luc Brunel, who was then 33. He was very enthusiastic about my looks and keen for me to go to the countryside with him and and other models to do my test shoots. He asked me to join the group at 9pm the same night and gave me an address. I turned up at an apartment with my packed bag. Jean Luc was there, along with a model agent I had met earlier. There was another French man with black hair and three other girls. They looked younger than me. Edda Koven says that at 11pm their party left in two cars. One of the other girls told me we we were going to a remote chateau to do a photo shoot. On the way, the group stopped at a restaurant. It was midnight. Etta Koven recalls sitting at a long table where almost immediately a sexual atmosphere developed. Pretty common when we're talking about Epstein and his band of disgusting diddlers. The men were laughing at pornographic images in a magazine. And I felt more and more uneasy. I asked Jean Luc Brunel in private if I could get my suitcase from his car and leave. I said that I was afraid and I didn't want to be part of this. He told me that I had nothing to fear, that I was under his protection. He said, as director of the agency, I will see that nothing will happen to you that you do not want. And so I stayed. I believed him. And unfortunately, when somebody is in a position of power, a lot of times people believe them. But the truth is, people that are in positions of power, they do this kind of shit frequently. And when it comes to modeling agencies, I'm sure a lot of this occurs. Ettecovin finished her dinner and the group headed for the countryside. This was an era without mobile phones or the Internet. I realized in the car that no one knew where I was. It was pitch black when we arrived at the castle. Jean Luc showed me to my bedroom with dark wood paneling and and an antique bed. I put on my nightgown. I was very tired and ready to sleep. But Brunel had other ideas. He knocked on my door, proposing that we do a series of photos outside in front of the car headlights. He had convinced me that I had nothing to fear from him. So I went with him to his car. As the two drove down the long, dark driveway, Brunel started asking Eta Covenant what she earned as an au pair. I told him about 500 francs a month. He said you could easily get 30,000 francs a month, like another model's name, naming her as somebody that he was paying money to. Then he started to kiss me and put his hands between my legs. That's when everything turned. He told me that if I Didn't give in to him. He would leave me in the woods. I told him I didn't want to get money in that way. He very slowly drove back to the castle. I got out of the car and I ran inside. I stumbled on a suit of armor as I fled upstairs to my bedroom. Everyone else was in their rooms. I locked my door and vowed to leave the next morning. Can you imagine being in that circumstance, that situation? You're in this strange foreign place, a castle. Don't know where you are, nobody has any clue where you are, and this disgusting animal starts abusing you. And never mind the fact that each one of these dudes is uglier than the next one. I mean, talk about an absolute nightmare. Etta Coven had been in bed for just a few minutes when she heard a sound coming from the wardrobe. It was Brunel. To my horror, he was passing through a hidden door in the closet between our adjoining rooms. He was almost naked, dressed in just a T shirt and underpants. I froze. He took my arm and pulled me through the closet into his own room. Like a degenerate's version of Narnia. This man came through the closet and grabbed this lady and pulled her into his room. That's like some shit out of a horror novel. I struggled as he put me on his bed. I tried to get away and turned my head from him. I said in French, I don't want this. He raped me anyway. I got away afterwards, back through the closet into my own room. I barricaded the door with chairs. All I could think about was running away as soon as it was light on, opening the shutters. The next morning, she said, I had no idea where I was. There wasn't a soul in sight and nowhere I could go for help. I went down for breakfast and found some of the others in a big room. A maid was serving a very elaborate breakfast. Jean Luc entered the room. He ignored me completely. I blushed as the men made fun of me. Edekoven says that Brunel and another man loudly discussed arranging for male and female prostitutes from Rouen to come to the castle that evening. They were planning an orgy and made it clear I would be part of it. Jean Luc said he would make nude pictures of me. I knew at that point I had to flee. There was an American girl there, a friend of the castle's then owner. I asked her to help me leave. She took me to the owner's office. He agreed that I didn't fit in well there. He told me there was a railway station A short distance away. I asked him to take me to the station with a girl in the car with us. I didn't want Jean Luc Brunel alerted, as I was afraid he would keep me prisoner there if he knew I was trying to leave. Within a half an hour ETA coven was on her way to a train station 9km from the castle. And I know I'm going to just absolutely mutilate this word. I can't speak French, but here we go. The station was Forgelais Oe. I've never forgotten the name. I waited two hours there in the sunshine. All I could think was, thank God that I'm alive. That dominated my thoughts. I really believed at that time, had I stayed at that castle, I wouldn't have got out alive. During the two hour wait on the platform for a train back to Paris, Etta Koven wrote down everything that had happened to her in a letter to a friend. I arrived in Paris at 7pm that evening. The following Monday, Etta Coven returned to work and didn't tell anyone about what had happened to her. Throughout her adult life, she quietly carried the events of that day with her until the death of Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. At that point, the walls were closing in at last on Brunel. When French magistrates issued an appeal for alleged victims to come forward, Edekoven decided she would be one of them. A few weeks later, in September 2019, Etta Coven was interviewed by police in Paris. Until then, she had told no one about what happened to her, except her sister and her husband. And this is a common theme. A lot of these victims of Epstein, Brunel, they didn't tell anybody about what happened to them. On December 16, 2020, 41 years after Edekoven's rape, Brunel was arrested. I was so relieved, I. I no longer felt afraid, she says. Yet the case against him immediately came up against a serious obstacle, the 20 year old French statute of limitations on prosecutions, which meant she and most of the other women who had come forward with claims of sexual assault against Brunel were out of time to bring charges against him. It was only when Virginia Roberts came forward to French police that the case could proceed. During the meeting with investigating officers in Paris in 2021, Edekoven was told that that they had discovered the exact location of the castle. Using her calculation of the distance of the nearest train station and drone surveillance. It was Castle Galifontaine. She had her own important information for the police too, in the shape of the draft letter that she had written at the train station all those years ago, along with the train ticket she had bought for her journey back to Paris. I found it all perfectly preserved, wrapped in an envelope inside of a trunk. I posted the letter to a friend, but kept a draft as a sort of evidence for myself, proof that it was not just a bad dream. Even though I was outside the statute of limitations, the fact I was clearly telling the truth about Brunel supported others causes. On February 19, 2022, they received the news Brunel had killed himself in his cell at Paris La Sante prison, where he was being held on remand. I was shocked, relieved and angry all at once. It was a lot to take in, says Edekoven. I had desperately wanted to confront him, to tell him what he had done to me. Last month, in a further affront to the alleged victims, Brunel's lawyer demanded an administrative inquiry into alleged judicial failures after Brunel killed himself. They describe major dysfunctions by the judiciary which are holding responsible for his death. His death was not guided by guilt, but a profound sense of injustice, said Brunel's lawyers. Oh, yeah, sure. Had nothing to do with guilt, huh? Had nothing to do with the fact that he had information on powerful people. Okay, sure. Just another coincidence. I don't believe that, says Edekovin. I believe he knew that with all the evidence against him and the number of women willing to speak out, that he could not escape anymore. I know that the evidence I kept for all those years helped to put him behind bars. Now another woman has launched a civil action against the Jean Luc Brunel estate. Using the alias Jessica Kramer, she claims that Brunel drugged and assaulted her when she was working as a model in LA at the age of 18. In a testimony which is chillingly reminiscent of ETA Coven's, she claims to have been driven to a property where she was imprisoned and subjected to abuse, eventually escaping through a window. Etta Coven hopes that revealing her identity will encourage more victims to come forward. I can't imagine I was the only one abused in that place. The thing that hurts me the most was that I trusted him. I'm sure that must have been the case with countless girls. And that's really what it comes down to. You have all of these vulnerable women coming from broken homes, coming from poverty. Then they have these rich people who all of a sudden take an interest in them, and that feels good, right? Let's be honest, it feels good when someone takes an interest in you, especially if you've been ignored your whole life. But the Problem is these predators know their game and they know exactly who to target. And when we talk about people involved in Epstein's bullshit, one of the people that has to be talked about right up there with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is Jean Luc Brunel. And hopefully with Ms. Etikoven coming out here and other folks coming out with their stories, we'll continue to be able to paint a more robust picture of. Of the trafficking enterprise and just how far it reached. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up, everybody? So before I popped into the studio to record this segment, I was watching this program about John Gotti and his rise to power. And there was a quick little segment where they were discussing RICO and how RICO was used to go after John Gotti, the Gambino family, and the Mafia as a whole. And Michael Cheradoff, who was a prosecutor at the time, who helped Giuliani prosecute the Mafia, was explaining how they used RICO and how they painted the whole entire operation as one gigantic crown criminal enterprise. And as I'm sitting here watching it, I'm shaking my head in agreement. Not because they tagged RICO onto the Gambino family, but because the same exact situation unfolded with the Epstein criminal enterprise. And I don't know where RICO should be applied if not here, folks. I mean, this case is screaming at the top of its lungs to be classified as a RICO case. And with the maneuvering of Mrs. Serpentino and her legal team, you would think that the prosecution is going to get tired of it pretty soon. And I think that once they really blast off and unleash all of the charges, and that would be in store for her and the co conspirators with the RICO case, then I think that Ghislaine Maxwell and her ridiculous requests will come to a screeching halt. Because once that RICO case is laid out, she's gonna have a lot bigger problem. So watching that MAFIA documentary a little bit ago, the John Gotti documentary that I was watching, it was just quite obvious that the same concept behind the organizations was used, meaning the leadership, the leadership structure and how tasks were divvied up and how tasks were carried out and how there were lieutenants and there was an underboss, basically. And it's all parallel. And if Keith Raynery and R. Kelly are both slapped with RICO charges, how in the world have RICO charges not been unleashed yet here? Now we know that Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested for these alleged crimes. We know that Jean Luc Brunel is also sitting in the clink tonight in Paris for crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein. Now I'm not a rocket scientist or some sort of great detective or anything like that, but it should not be too hard to tie all of this together for the, the authorities and to have a huge gigantic RICO case. And when I say a RICO case, I don't just mean the people that were directly involved in the day to day operations. I'm talking about anyone who benefited financially as well. All ill gotten gains. Every single person who was getting money through one of these shell companies or one of these backdoor deals, they should be wrapped up in this RICO case too. And I don't care how far it reaches, right? Because guess what? It wouldn't matter if you and all of your friends and your associates and your business partners, partners were wrapped up in this huge conspiracy and you were the genesis of it and you were the one who distributed all of those funds. Everyone would have their funds frozen, everybody would be subpoenaed, everybody would be looked at like a suspect and everybody would be treated as such. So I don't think it's too much to ask that the most elite so called amongst us are treated the very same way when they're caught up in a RICO case. Because that's what this is, right? This wasn't just one person involved in this. This wasn't just one person. Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell or Jean Luc Brunel who was able to make this thing go. They had to work as a team. It's like, you know, like, like it was a sailing competition, right? It doesn't matter if you're, you know, the best at what you do, say, steering the ship, if you don't have somebody who can put up the sail, well, the ship really isn't going to go anywhere now is it? So everybody is an integral part. Everybody has their job to make sure that the ship is sailing. And it is no different in a criminal enterprise. And that is exactly what Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel were running. Jeffrey Epstein's dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in a federal detention center and Jean Luc Brunel is eating the equivalent of whatever the French have for baloney sandwiches in their facilities. Now the coconspirators are still not named in any indictments that have been unsealed. But it's rather obvious that Ghislaine Maxwell and, and Jean Luc Brunel were engaged in a conspiracy together working with Jeffrey Epstein. And I wonder how long before we see those kind of conspiracy charges slapped on Maxwell and Brunel. We have reports now coming out of France that it was Virginia Roberts and her information that led to Jean Luc Brunel being arrested in France. So once again, Virginia is proving an integral part of the investigation as she continues to try and bring these people to justice for the crimes that she says they committed against her. And she has been steadfast in this pursuit. And once again we see that her courageousness, her coming forward and her standing tall is leading to real life results on the ground. So that's why I find it laughable when people are like, well, what do you think you're gonna do, get these people arrested? Well, they're certainly not gonna get arrested if you sit on your computer or your cell phone and just fire off snarky ass remarks. How about you quit being a fan and get involved? Because short of that, you should probably just stay on the sidelines and shut up because you're seeing real results. You're seeing movement. You're seeing these people who were involved with Epstein in various capacities start to feel the pinch. And the fact that the French authorities as well as the American authorities are using information that Virginia has provided to them to go after these prosecutions should be all you really need to know about what they think about her credibility as well. So let's jump into this article by the Daily Mail and see just exactly what's going on over there in France and how Virginia speaking with the authorities over there and providing them information led to Jean Luc Brunel, the third head of the three heads of the leadership cabal of the Epstein enterprise, getting arrested. Headline exclusive. Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts provided key evidence to French police to secure a rapid arrest of late pedophile's model agent friend Jean Luc Brunel charged with multiple, I repeat, multiple counts of rape. Now let's remember, all right, let's. Let's take a little trip back in history real quick, shall we? This isn't just the first person to speak out about Jean Luc Brunel and his behavior and his alleged conduct.
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We had the documentary in the late 80s. Plenty of people have come out and went on the record about the scumbag that Jean Luc Brunel is. So this isn't something that is just like popped up out of the blue where there's no documentation about this. These are standing allegations Decades long. And I really don't think that there's much disputing them. Okay, now he's gonna have his chance to dispute them in a court of law, just like Elaine Maxwell. And finally, for the first time ever in this case, at the very least, that's about to occur. Because up until now, that shit wasn't going to happen. You really think the government was going to really pursue this case if Virginia and the other girls who have come forward didn't take their case to, to the, the people directly? Hell no. The government would have tried to stash this and hide it because guess what, it made them look bad. And the government can't have that, right? The government can't be made to look bad. They'd rather bury this instead. But that wasn't going to occur this time. And these victims turned survivors. Well, they decided to flip the tables, folks, and, and they decided to grab the narrative by the tail and give it a swing. This article was authored by Peter Allen. Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts has provided enough evidence to French officials for the late pedophile's model agent friend, Jean Luc Brunel, to be charged with multiple rapes. DailyMail.com can reveal. Now remember, it was Jean Luc Brunel, according to Virginia's account, who provided Jeffrey Epstein with triplets. 12 year old triplets for him to do. I don't even want to think what he did to them, okay. As a birthday present. Now if that's some of the behavior that Brunel was engaging in as far as his relationship with Epstein and otherwise, then this dude is certainly a candidate in my opinion, for chemical castration and burial under the prison, the prison after being convicted. Because you can't rehabilitate a monster like this. What, are you gonna let him back out into society so he can go back out and get involved in it all over again? Nah. Guy like this needs to be arrested, locked up and put underneath the prison. In my opinion, once he is convicted. Virginia Roberts, 37, is now the key witness in the prosecution of Brunel, 75, after claiming that both him and the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, 60, used her as their sex slave. So this is pretty significant stuff, right? It's not only the American authorities that have come forward now and said, look, we, we believe what Virginia is saying here, we believe her account of the, this story, and we believe that this sort of thing did occur with Jeffrey Epstein and his minions and friends. So it adds a lot, a lot, a lot more credibility to what we see going on here. I Mean, as if we need it anymore, right, from what we've read. But for people that might not be paying attention to the case, they see now that multiple cases are opened on multiple continents and, well, it goes a long way for the credibility of the witness. And with all of the receipts that have been provided and all of the accounts that we have heard, I mean, how much more evidence is needed before these people are all arrested? Now, don't get me wrong, this is a good start, right? Hardly anyone believed that Maxwell or Brunel were going to get arrested. Yet here we are in the very beginnings of 2021 and both are sitting in a jail cell. Now all that's left is the core four. Let's see them get wrapped up, let's see Indyke and Khan get wrapped up, and then, well, we'll be off to the races. But with Brunel being arrested in France like this and Virginia providing an ample amount of evidence, obviously, it certainly looks like Brunel is in serious legal jeopardy here. And I have a sneaking suspicion that more witnesses are going to come forward and there will be more victims, unfortunately, that also come out and say that Brunel abused them as well. You see, because when you're somebody like Jean Luc Brunel or a serial molester or abuser, you don't stop unless you're stopped, right? You don't just wake up one day and say, all right, I'm not a rapist anymore. That's not how it works, unfortunately. These people are wired like serial killers. This is, this is who they are. It's part of their identity. And it doesn't just stop overnight. They have to physically be stopped and put into prison. That is the only way it stops. The two men deny any wrongdoing, but in December, Brunel was remanded in custody in Paris after being charged with multiple rapes of Roberts and a separate case of sexual harassment a against an unidentified complaint. It followed dozens of women saying Brunel abused them while running an underage sex ring with Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in 2019, allegedly. And again, running a sex ring with Jeffrey Epstein certainly doesn't seem like a guy that was just showing up every now and then, right? Sounds like a very important, important piece to the puzzle. Sounds like a leadership role. Smells like a RICO case. Almost all of the accusations leveled against Brunel are from the 70s, 80s and 90s, meaning they fall outside the 20 year limit for prosecuting sex crimes in France. So again, a lot, right? A lot of these allegations certainly do fall outside of the statute of limitations. But again, like I said, I think that we'll see more recent accusations come to the forefront. Now, a lot of people probably thought that their, their accusations would go nowhere if these girls, right, they'd come forward, this powerful model guy, modeling recruiter, their careers will be ruined. They wouldn't get any more gigs, all of that stuff. But now that he's on the back burner and he's taken off of the chessboard, well, I think we'll see a lot more girls come forward and put it on the record what Brunel did to them, or what they allege Brunel did to them. This meant that Brunel was considered untouchable by police, who nicknamed him the Ghost as he carried on living and working in the French capital while frequently traveling abroad on scouting assignments and holidays. Boy, that's really nice, huh? Real nice. You would think that America would have put them on some kind of list and had Interpol swoop them up, but nah, for all of this time, up until about a year ago, the United States, the, the United States of America was way too focused on protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts. It seems like to really initiate any kind of investigation, segregation, the fact that Brunel was able to go on with his life and live and conduct business freely and travel abroad to, lord knows, do what. How many girls did he abuse while he was abroad? How many poor girls in rundown villages or towns that don't have many opportunities did Brunel go to and scout for potential girls to victimize? It makes me sick to think how many of these small places he visited. We know he loves South America and Brazil, so I don't even like to think about how many people have been victimized at the hands of this sick bastard. But in November, Roberts responded to an online English language appeal by French magistrates for alleged survivors to come forward. And again, Virginia has been at the forefront of all of this, right? You know, she has really blown the doors off of it and she's given a face to the girls who have remained faceless. And I think it's significant to just mention how going directly to the people via social media and taking the message directly to the people and out of the hands of the media who could spin it and make it whatever they want it to be, was just a stroke of genius. And I really think that's what kicked this case into gear. I truly believe that's what got things going. Ms. Roberts now lives in Australia, but responded to the appeal, said an investigating source. She was interviewed remotely and provided considerable evidence against Brunel. So again, she's had the receipts for how, how long this could have all been stopped years and years and years ago if people would have listened about Brunel. And also folks, what also this says is, think about if what she says about Brunel is true and what she says about Epstein is true and what she says about Maxwell is true, doesn't that probably mean what she says about the rest of them, Dubin and Dershowitz and the rest of the scumbaggery crew? Don't you pro. Don't you think that that means that what she's saying about them is probably true as well? So all of these people that have been able to get off with these little canned responses like Bill Richardson and George Mitchell and you know, Pritzker, all of these guys that haven't been put on blast, yo, your time is coming because guess what folks, the writing is
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and the authorities obviously are starting to take notice. She said that she was raped by Brunel in the early 2000 2000s, including in 2001. This was a considerable breakthrough for the inquiry. So that fall that fell with within the statute of limitations, right? So bam, that's the end. That's how they nab him. It meant that the alleged crime was well within the statute of limitations and therefore prosecutable. Officers were set to arrest Brunel in January following further inquiries, but on December 16th was intercepted at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris with a one way ticket to Dakar, capital of Senegal in West Africa. A one way ticket, huh? Yeah, because that's how rich people travel, right? They just buy a one way tickets. They don't have the money to buy both tickets at once. So we get them, we do it a la carte around here, all right? You know, it's like going to the steakhouse and you can't afford to get the mashed potato a la carte. So you're just going to get the steak tick today. That's not how it works. Why was he going to Senegal on a one way ticket? That's not, that's not concerning, that's not suspicious or anything. This led to his immediate arrest and he was placed in custody, said the source. The multiple rape charges solely relate to the testimony of Virginia Roberts and not any of the other alleged rape victims. And that is significant because the, the charge obviously is for the only crime that is alleged to have been committed within the statute of limitations. But again, I am sure that there are more girls out there and they're gonna feel emboldened now and we're gonna see them come forward. We saw it with Epstein, we've saw it with Maxwell and, and we no doubt will see it with Brunel as well. The sexual harassment indictment is nothing to do with Epstein's case and instead relates to incidents in 2016 following a complaint by another woman who has not gone public. And you see right there, just a sexual harassment claim that has. She hasn't gone public with, that has
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put out in public. Now, what else is coming? Right, what else is coming down the pipe? I am sure that they're going to be much heavier claims. And once people see the air of invincibility pierced for people like this, they're much more apt to come forward and go on the record and put it on wax and talk about what happened to them. The multiple rapes of Virginia Roberts, now a mother of three, who was called Virginia Roberts before her marriage was said to have mainly taken place at Epstein's home on the private island of Little St. James in the U.S. virgin Islands. Roberts has produced sworn testimony saying that both Brunel and Joe Exotic of the Windsor family attacked her there. According to French law, a French citizen such as Brunel can be tried in France for offenses committed abroad. Well, there you go. See, that's another thing that, you know, I've, like, I've always said I'm not a. A specialist when it comes to the legal aspect of any of this, especially French law. So him being able to be tried for crimes committed in America, in France, is significant and I hope that that happens. Right. If they don't want to extradite him to America, at least he's going to face serious charges in his home country. Others said to have been involved in the sex ring include Epstein's co conspirator and serpentino friend, the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, who is currently on remand in the USA and after being charged with trafficking of underage girls and the enticement of minors. Prince Andrew was, like his friend, the bipedal serpent, a regular visitor to Epstein's mansion flat in Paris, where many of the worst crimes against girls are said to have taken place. I mean, can you imagine the reign of destruction? Can you imagine how many people's lives were destroyed on multiple continents by these sick bastards and they were able to slither around for all of these decades, all of these years afterwards? Well, guess what? Those days are over. The train of justice has left the station, folks, and all of these people are squarely tied to the tracks. A French judicial inquiry into Brunel's conduct and the sex ring was opened in August 2019, when prosecutors first heard allegations that Brunel and the Queen's second son shared a lover. Robert said she was forced to sleep with the Duke after being trafficked to him after at least three times when she was 17. The Joe Exotic of the Windsor family and his four supporters on Twitter have consistently denied the accusations leveled by Roberts, telling the BBC in 2019, I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady. None whatsoever. Meanwhile, there's a picture who some morons want to act like is Photoshopped. We know that's not the case, but we've heard from the FBI that it's not, and we also heard from a New Zealand photographer that it's not. So I'm gonna go ahead and read that New Zealand photographer's article again. We're gonna do that as a bonus episode tomorrow. So maybe a few crows who are crowing, well, maybe they'll shut up because unless you have evidence or receipts or some sort of circumstantial evidence that you can provide, then I really don't want to hear from you, honestly, because you're just muddying the waters and getting in the way. Roberts has now told the French she was routinely raped by Brunel between the ages of 16 and 19. Brunel, who has worked with celebrities including Jerry hall, she, Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci, is also suspected of using his contacts in the fashion industry to provide victims to Epstein and his friends. Note the word friends. Let's hear about these friends. Let's get some of these friends on wax. Let's talk about these friends. Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has done a pretty good job with this case, but I think it's time now to go deeper. I think it's time to really stir it up and, and see what's at the bottom of this pot. Some of these names that haven't been mentioned, like Pritzker, some of these names that are hardly mentioned, like the Dubins or Bill Richardson, all of these people
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And if it's good for Brunel and it's good enough for Brunel to be put on blast and to be facing the music, then all of these people who girls were trafficked to also need to be pursued vigorously. Anyone who had any part in physically abusing anyone with Jeffrey Epstein must be pursued vigorously. He is said to have flown 12 year old sisters from a Paris housing estate to America so they could be abused by Epstein as a birthday present. We talked about that earlier and it's one of the most heinous things imaginable to even think about. Honestly it makes my skin crawl when I think about it. Epstein, an old friend of Andrew's and a business associate of Brunel's, friend of Brunel's committed suicide in his prison cell allegedly in New York on August 10th, 2019 while awaiting trial for a range of offenses including trafficking minors for sex and multiple rapes. Brunel was the founder of MC2, the model agency that prosecutors believe was used as a cover for the sex trafficking ring that Steve Mnuchin had his fingerprints all over, that he signed for, that he was part of. And then he says well I don't know who the Brunels were. Steve Mnuchin is another reprehensible, disgusting son of a bitch and he's another one who needs a deep look at every single person, folks who was involved here. The out of time evidence against Brunel comes from a number of former models who like Roberts have waived their anonymity to make their allegations public. New Zealander Zoe Brock has claimed in statements made to French investigators that she was abused by in his Paris home in the early 90s. The Dutch model physio Hussman, who was 18 when she first dated with Brunel, said she was raped by him in 1991. And look, why would these ladies all be lying about this? What do they have to gain? They have nothing to gain by lying about Jean Luc Brunel raping them and assaulting them. So why would anyone think that Jean Luc Brunel is not guilty of all of this?
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Housman is now one of at least four alleged survivors represented by an CLA Laun, a Paris baristor who said Brunel being in custody was a huge relief because their complaints now take on meaning 100%. It gives justification to these other girls like Thisia who have come forward and put Brunel on blast for his conduct.
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pay the price for that conduct. Sigrid McCauley Virginia Roberts lawyer confirmed her client was cooperating with the French enquiry and had offered evidence. Macaulay said my clients and I are delighted by the French prosecution. This is a sign that the investigation by the French authorities is advancing. Jean Luc Brunel played a key role in Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ring that Those are Sigrid McCauley's words, okay, played a key role in Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking ring.
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Wasn't just a bystander, wasn't just a groomer.
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A key role, folks, okay? Leadership role. Virginia Roberts, in particular, my oldest client, made it a personal struggle to hold the people who assaulted so many young girls to account. She is grateful to the French authorities for taking Jean Luc Brunel's behavior very seriously. Marianne Abgral, Brunel's lawyer, said, my client formally disputes the facts of which he is accused. He is very upset that his name is dragged through the mud without moderation. Oh, well, is he now? In that case, we'll just stop talking about him because, you know, there's no decades long allegations leveled against him. I would be so hesitant to talk about this case if it was happening in real time, folks, because this is the kind of shit that ruins people's lives. If, if they're not, if it's not correct, right? If you start leveling these kinds of charges against people and you're doing it out of left field and there's no evidence to support it, that's a big problem. But that's not what's going on here. We're not talking about one girl or two girls or three girls. We're talking about dozens and dozens and hundreds of girls that have all come out and said that these people have abused them and it was habitual and it went on for decades and nobody did a damn thing about it. So now when someone like Brunel acts like, well, how dare anybody be talking about this and dragging my good name through the mud, Bro, you're. Your name's been drugged through the mud since the late 80s. The difference now is someone's doing something about it. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobbycapucciotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I@protonmail.com youm can also find me on twitter at bo-capucci all of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box. And to everybody who has supported the podcast recently,