The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Saturday that it had contacted magistrates to analyze elements likely to implicate French people in documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The investigation file targeting Jean-Luc Brunel, ex-model agent and close friend of the sex criminal, dismissed in 2023 after his death, will also be re-examined.

Published on: 02/14/2026 - 9:46 p.m. Modified on: 02/15/2026 - 10:45 a.m.

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Two weeks after the publication of millions of documents linked to the American sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, the Paris prosecutor's office announced, Saturday February 14, the referral to lead magistrates to analyze possible offenses linked to French people.

They will also carry out "a complete reanalysis of the investigation file" of the former modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who died in detention in 2022. The prosecution specified that the elements sought could concern "offenses of various natures, in particular of a sexual or financial nature".

He explained that he was working on the exploitation of newly released documents in the United States, "in coordination with the National Financial Prosecutor's Office and in conjunction with the national direction of the judicial police (...) in order to open investigations" if offenses were identified.

The PNF announced on February 6 that it had opened a preliminary investigation for “laundering of aggravated tax fraud” targeting the former Minister of Culture and now ex-president of the Arab World Institute (IMA) Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline Lang, also cited in these “Epstein files”.

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A targeted conductor

The Paris prosecutor's office indicated on Saturday that it had received three new cases which were echoed in the press.

An investigation aims in particular to possibly "substantiate" a simple report sent on February 10 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the diplomat Fabrice Aidan, cited in the "Epstein files".

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The prosecution is also analyzing a complaint from a Swedish woman, received on February 11, and filed against Daniel Siad, a model recruiter with close ties to Epstein, accusing him of "acts of a sexual nature which she describes as rape and likely to have been committed in France in 1990".

Finally, on February 12, the Paris public prosecutor's office "received, upon relinquishment from the Thonon-les-Bains public prosecutor's office, a complaint filed against the conductor Frédéric Chaslin". “This procedure, relating to acts of sexual harassment allegedly committed in 2016,” is currently being analyzed, he stressed.

The Paris prosecutor's office will also carry out "a complete reanalysis of the investigation file" in which the former modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, had been indicted, and which had been closed with a dismissal of the case in July 2023 following the suicide in detention, in February 2022, of the latter. “In fact, no other person had been indicted in this case,” recalled the prosecution. The objective is “to be able to extract any piece likely to be usefully re-exploited in a new investigation framework”, he specified.

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Prostitution and unhealthy drugs

The latter was contacted in the summer of 2019 by two reports from the Innocence in Danger association and a letter from the Femme et libre association evoking French complicity in the case concerning Epstein in the United States. A complainant had accused Jean-Luc Brunel of having raped her in the 1980s, when she was barely an adult and working in modeling. The Paris prosecutor's office then entrusted the investigation to the OCRVP (the Central Office for the Repression of Violence against Persons).

“The investigators summarized hearings from an American procedure by noting that Jean-Luc Brunel was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein;

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Responding to a call for witnesses, several women indicated having participated in evenings in Paris, during which large quantities of alcohol and cocaine were consumed, and where young girls had been put in contact with Jean-Luc Brunel. Some had testified to an atmosphere of prostitution and unhealthy drugs for minors, as well as a climate of sexual violence.

Ten women had implicated Jean-Luc Brunel, several describing having been driven to drink alcohol, having lost their means or even complete consciousness, and having had sexual penetration imposed on them, while some of them were not yet adults, according to the public prosecutor.

“One described Jean-Luc Brunel as being the one who sent new young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, under the pretext of photo shoots, from Eastern Europe or Latin America. Others indicated that they had been forced into these sexual relations, by their young age, the control that Jeffrey Epstein or Jean-Luc Brunel had over them,” added the prosecution.

With AFP

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