, has been detained in France on accusations of sex crimes, prosecutors said on Thursday, December 17.
He was detained at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to take a plane to Senegal, a source close to the case added., who was arrested in New York in July 2019 on charges of trafficking underage girls for sex, was found hanged in his New York jail cell on August 10, 2019 while awaiting trial over abuses involving girls at his Palm Beach home and on his private island in the Caribbean.
The investigation opened by France into Epstein's activities has focused on Brunel, who was accused in American court documents of rape and of procuring young girls for his friend. "This is huge news. I am crying with joy," said Thysia Huisman, a former Dutch model who says she was"drugged and raped" by Brunel at the age of 18.