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Jeffrey Epstein and at least one close associate, French modeling agent Jean‑Luc Brunel, died in custody after Epstein’s 2019 arrest; Epstein’s death was officially ruled a suicide by the New York Cit...
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have directly accused a small number of named individuals in public reporting and legal filings, most prominently model scout Jean‑Luc Brunel; however, many high‑profile m...
Media coverage and public records in the supplied reporting make clear that several people connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case have died by suicide, most notably Epstein himself in 2019 and prominen...
Two deaths directly tied to reporting in the provided sources occurred after Jeffrey Epstein’s July 2019 arrest: Jeffrey Epstein himself, who died on August 10, 2019 and whose death was officially rul...
Reporting shows Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump) worked as a model in Europe and later for agencies tied to Paolo Zampolli and, briefly, Trump’s own agency; multiple outlets note Paolo Zampolli (ID ...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not offer a single, vetted tally of “alleged Epstein victims who later died under suspicious circumstances”; coverage instead documents several high‑pr...
Prosecutors and civil filings allege Jean‑Luc Brunel was a model scout who recruited, transported and housed young women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes on model visas and in apartments tied ...
Multiple high‑profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein have died since his arrest; among those reported to have died by suicide are Epstein himself and French modeling agent Jean‑Luc Brunel. The New York...
Available reporting confirms at least two deaths by suicide tied to people connected with the Epstein saga: Jeffrey Epstein himself — found dead in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 and ruled a suicide ...
At least two independent reporting efforts and multiple news accounts document a pattern of deaths among people connected to Jeffrey Epstein, with some cases officially ruled suicides and others descr...
The dominant modeling concern in the legal aftermath of is — and its predecessor — which figures repeatedly in lawsuits, court filings and documents tied to Epstein through owner (who both sued Epstei...
The FBI’s July 2019 internal emails referenced “10 co‑conspirators” linked to Jeffrey Epstein, but the released files are heavily redacted and do not provide a public, complete list of those ten names...
The unsealed court records from Virginia Giuffre’s defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell include hundreds of pages that reference more than 150 people, ranging from modeling agents and alleged rec...
Available reporting shows Melania Trump worked as a fashion model in Europe (Paris, Milan and elsewhere) in the 1990s and early 2000s and later moved to the U.S. after being introduced to Paolo Zampol...
Reporting links Paolo Zampolli to several controversies: his role as a modeling-agent connector in the 1990s (including introducing Melania Knauss to Donald Trump) has drawn scrutiny because of allege...
MC2 Model Management, founded and run by Jean‑Luc Brunel, is alleged to have recruited young women — including from poor communities and overseas — by offering , then channeling many of them into Jeff...
MC2 Model Management appears to refer to more than one agency name used by different people in different markets: a Tel Aviv-based MC2 was founded by Ofer Raphaeli in 2000 and has a background in Isra...
Reporting links Melania Trump’s early modeling career to agents who also moved in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit—most often Paolo Zampolli and, more broadly, modeling agencies associated with Jean-Luc Brunel...
The unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents and subsequent releases name a broad mix of politicians, royals, financiers, celebrities and business figures; being named in the records does equal criminal cul...
Investigative projects such as OpDeathEaters and Unlimited Hangout present a mix of archival ties, business records, social-network assertions, and journalistic interpretation to argue that modeling a...