Jeffrey Epstein’s former business partner and alleged accomplice in trafficking and sexually abusing girls, Jean-Luc Brunel, was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell, according to French authorities.
Brunel’s death eerily resembles Epstein’s death by hanging in a New York prison cell in August 2019 that was ruled a suicide. Brunel, 76, had been arrested in December 2020 and was under investigation on rape and sex trafficking charges.
“It almost seems like the entire ring of people who were doing this that their conscience is getting the better of them now that they are being held accountable for their actions,” said Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who has represented several of Epstein’s victims. “Of course, the alternative conspiracy theory is that it’s like someone is trying to clean up shop.”
