Paris to Tangiers, the Modeling Scout - Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Day 9
“Brunel moved to New York to outrun his sulfurous reputation in Paris as a modeling agent who preyed on his young clients. When he arrived, he bought an apartment from another friend of Ghislaine Maxwell’s - Donald Trump.”
Epstein pilot David Rodgers’ testimony yesterday for the prosecution provided possible insight into Epstein’s network in France, a lesser known aspect of the milieu that formed the criminal conspiracy Ghislaine Maxwell finds herself facing charges for which could put her in prison for decades.
Rodgers, who flew Epstein and his associates around the world in private jets for almost 30 years, combed meticulously through a personal log book he’d kept showing the destinations & departures, as well as the plane he used, and the passengers onboard, for trips he’d flown Epstein and Maxwell on across the globe for.
One section of Rodgers’ personal logs showed Epstien making a circuit from Canada, to Paris, to Spain, to Morocco, to England, all in under a week.
On March 5, 2001, Epstein, Maxwell, Virginia Roberts, and another person flew from Palm Beach, Florida, to Stephenville, Canada. The next day, Epstein, Maxwell, and Roberts flew to Paris with one other person on the plane. Then, two days later on the 8th, Epstein, Maxwell, and Roberts flew with “multiple other passengers” to Granada in Spain. From Spain, they flew to Tangiers, Morocco, later that day. Then, on the 11th, Epstein, Maxwell, and Roberts flew to Luton, in England, with just one other person.
Rodgers' personal log also showed that on May 5th, 1997, Epstein took a flight alone from Geneva, Switzerland, to Paris. Rodgers understood that Epstein had an apartment in Paris where he’d be staying.
The next day he flew back to Stephenville, in Canada, this time accompanied by Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine may have been spending time in Paris with her good friend Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel, who is being held in a prison near Paris after having his bail denied earlier this year, is accused of raping a minor by the French authorities.
He has also been accused by Virginia Roberts of sleeping with her when she was underage, and being Epstein’s procurer, who used his position as a modeling agent to traffic young girls to Epstein, putting them up in a Manhattan apartment owned by Jeffrey’s brother Mark under false working papers.
Maxwell, reported 20Minutes in July 2020, introduced Brunel to Epstein in the early 90s. When Epstein bought an apartment on Avenue Foch near the Champs Elysee, he asked Brunel for advice on the purchase.
In the mid-90s, Brunel moved to New York to outrun his sulfurous reputation in Paris as a modeling agent who preyed on his young clients. When he arrived, he bought an apartment from another friend of Ghislaine Maxwell’s - Donald Trump. At the time, Trump was seriously considering opening a modeling agency, and Brunel was a friend who he’d chase skirts with, alongside an Italian modeling agent called Paolo Zampolli. Zampolli introduced Donald Trump to his future wife, at the time his client, Melania Knauss.
On Tuesday, the government published a photograph into the record as gx341 showing Brunel with Maxwell and Epstein on an airplane. Their witness, Kimberly Meder, left Brunel unidentified when she described the picture.