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Brazilian Survivors Detail Alleged Recruitment by Epstein Associate Jean-Luc Brunel · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. There's a piece of the Jeffrey Epstein story
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that almost never gets the oxygen that it deserves. When
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people talk about Epstein, the conversation usually circles the same
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familiar terrain Palm Beach, Manhattan, Little Saint James, the flights
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on the so called Lolita Express, the political connections, the billionaires,
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the celebrities. But buried beneath that well worn narrative is
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something that is far darker and far more international in scope.
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One of the least discussed components of Epstein's criminal enterprise
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was the pipeline that ran through South and Central America,
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a pipeline that investigators and survivors have repeatedly linked to
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the French modeling agent Jean lu Brunel. If you want
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to understand how Epstein's trafficking network truly operated, how it
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sustained itself for decades, you have to look at that pipeline,
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because it reveals the industrial scale of the operation. Jean
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Luke Brunel was not some peripheral character orbiting the Epstein saga.
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He was the key facilitator in a transnational recruitment system
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that fed vulnerable young women in Girls into Epstein's world.
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Brunel ran a modeling agency called EMPC Squared, which operated
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across multiple continents and maintained connections in places where economic
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desperation could be easily exploited. South America and Central America
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became prime hunting grounds. Countries like Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and
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others were filled with young women who dreamed of modeling
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careers and opportunities abroad. Brunel and his associates understood that
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dream intimately, and they weaponized it. The recruitment pitch was
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simple and devastatingly effective. Young women were promised modeling contracts,
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international travel, and entry into the glamorous world of fashion.
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They were told that they would be flown to New York, Paris,
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or Miami to begin their careers. For many families in
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economically struggling regions, this sounded like an opportunity of a lifetime.
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What those girls were actually stepping into was a system
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of blurred lines and outright trafficking. Multiple survivors have described
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how Brunell's agency functioned as a front for recruitment girls
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who would be flown to the United States under the
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guise of modeling opportunities. Some arrived legally on temporary visas
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arranged through modeling contacts. Others were moved through a network
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of handlers and intermediaries who facilitated the travel. Once they arrived,
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many found themselves pulled into Ebstein's orbit, whether that meant
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being sent to his Manhattan mansion, his pom Beach estate,
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or one of the many locations where Abstein entertained wealthy associates.
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What made this pipeline, particularly in San idious, was a
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veneer of legitimacy surrounding it. Modeling agencies are by nature
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international business. Young models frequently travel across borders for work,
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and they made the entire operation extraordinarily difficult to detect.
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A teenage girl flying from sal Pallo to Buenos Aires
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to New York with a modeling contract in hand didn't
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necessarily raise immediate red flags. On paper, everything could appear
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perfectly normal, but survivors and witnesses have painted a far
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more disturbing picture. Several women have alleged that Brunel was
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directly involved in procuring girls for Epstein, and that the
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modeling pipeline served as a recruitment funnel for Epstein's trafficking network.
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Some described parties where wealthy men were introduced to very
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young models. Others described situations where the promised modeling work
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never materialized at all, leaving them dependent on the same
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network that had brought them there. Investigators have long suspected
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that the Epstein operation function like a hub and spoke system.
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Palm Beach served as a domestic recruitment base, but the
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international component expanded the scale of the network dramatically. The
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Brunel pipeline allowed Epstein to access a steady flow of
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new victims from outside the United States, many of whom
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had little understanding of American law enforcement systems, few resources,
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and no support networks once they arrived. And that international
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dimension is critical because there reveals something about the true
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architecture of Epstein's enterprise. This wasn't simply an operation of
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a loan predator with powerful friends. It was a global
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trafficking infrastructure involving recruiters, facilitators, travel arrangements, financial channels, and
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institutional blind spots across multiple countries. Brunell's role demonstrates how
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that infrastructure operated in practice. Even more troubling is how
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long the system appears to have operated without meaningful interruption.
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Allegations about Brunell's recruitment practices circulated the modeling industry for years.
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Survivors raised concerns, rumors traveled through fashion circles and among agencies,
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yet the pipeline continued to function well into the two thousands.
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The exploitation of South and Central American victims also underscores
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a broader pattern in Epstein's operation. The deliberate targeting of vulnerability,
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economic hardship, language barriers, immigration status, and geographic distance all
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served to isolate victims and make them easier to control.
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Girls arriving from abroad were often far from home, far
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from family, and deeply dependent on the people who had
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brought them there. When investigators began to piece together the
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scale of Epstein's network, the Brunel connection repeatedly surfaced as
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one of the most disturbing threads. Brunell himself was later
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arrested in France and faced allegations tied directly to the
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recruitment of young women for Epstein. His death and custody
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closed the door on many unanswered questions, but it did
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not erase the trail of evidence pointing to a vast
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recruitment apparatus. And that's why this aspect of the Epstein
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story deserves far more scrutiny than it typically receives, because
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when you examine the Brunel pipeline, you start to see
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Epstein's operation not just as a scandal involving elites, but
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as something closer to a global trafficking enterprise, a system
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that reached deep into vulnerable communities thousands of miles away
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and pulled young women into a world they never truly
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agree to enter. Understanding that pipeline is essential if we're
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ever going to understand the full scope of what Jeffrey
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Epstein built and how many people across how many countries
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were touched by the machinery that kept it running. This
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article was published by the BBC headline Epstein used modeling
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agent to recruit girls. Brazilian women tell the BBC. This
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article was authored by Luis Fernando Toledo. If I had
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disobeyed my mother and had gone to New York, what
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might have happened to me? Ask Glacia for caute. In
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two thousand and four, as a sixteen year old living
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in the Brazilian countryside, she was taken her first steps
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in the modeling world. She says that French modeling agent
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Jean Luke Brunel visited her family home to persuade her
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mother to let her go to a modeling contest in Ecuador.
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He later killed himself in prison, accused of rape, sexual assault,
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and recruiting girls for the late US financier and sex
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offender Jeffrey Epstein. And whenever we talk about this portion
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of what Epstein was up to, I can't help but
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think about what Maritzavasquez told us during that deposition, and
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it was straight up terrifying, right about the girls and
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the women coming from places like Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, all
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these places in South America that nobody was even talking about.
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And remember the whole entire purpose of that was to
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stay off the radar of American authorities. After he was
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arrested the first time around, I'm sure as Handler's had
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that talk with him, and I think that's why we
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started to see him shift his focus more to places
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like South America and Europe, because he knew he was
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burned in America and the bullshit was over for him
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when it comes to recruiting younger girls. Back then, they
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didn't know who Brunell was. They had been introduced by
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a famous Brazilian scout. BBC News Brazil investigation has found
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evidence that Brunel used modeling agencies linked to him at
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the time to actively seek out young women and girls
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from South America for Epstein and to arrange visas for
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some of them to travel to the US. And remember,
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this is just one story. How many girls were brought
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to the US by Jean lu Brunell, by his recruiters
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and abused by Jeffrey Epstein and others. And considering that
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we know there's over a thousand victims, my guess is
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there is even more than we know about now. Hopefully
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we're going to hear from more of these women from
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South America who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Jean
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Lu Brunell. But I'm sure a lot of them don't
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want to bring it up ever again, don't even want
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to think about it. Another Brazilian woman who says she
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had a relationship with Epstein, showed the BBC her visa
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in name one of Brunell's agencies as her sponsor, even
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though she says she never did any modeling work for him,
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and the travel documents were arranged solely so that she
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could visit Epstein immigration fraud. How long have I been
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telling you about this? So don't tell me there were
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no crimes committed. I mean, I thought that immigration law
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was one of the dujeoor topics for the people that
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are defending Jeffrey Epstein and the administration. I thought they
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were trying to get rid of immigrants. Thought they were
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trying to get rid of people who were here under
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false pretenses. But I guess this is no big deal, right,
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no crimes who were committed here, No investigation should be initiated.
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I mean imagine saying that or thinking that, because, keep
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in mind Epstein and Brunel, they needed help to get
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these visas right, They needed people in the immigration office.
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So that's a whole last other conversation that needs to
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be had. Who was helping them out, who was on
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the take, who took money? And once again, not a
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conversation that the government wants to have. Glucia's mother was
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suspicious of Brunel, but he seemed very charming, and eventually
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she agreed her daughter could go to Ecuador without her.
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The teenager traveled with Brunell's team to Guiakil for the
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Model's New Generation competition. At the time, local newspapers were
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reported that the participants were between fifteen and nineteen years old.
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Glossia says the competition passed without any major problems, although
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she grew suspicious when she was not allowed to contact
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her family. Yeah, that's a red flag. Anytime somebody's telling
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you you can't contact your people, it's time to get
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out of dodge. Another contestant from Western Europe, who was
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sixteen at the time, remembers how Brunell's behavior struck her
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as odd. She asked not to be named, so we're
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referring to her as Laura. It was weird how he
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behaved and was always hanging out with the young Brazilian girls.
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He was behaving like a clown and only hanging out
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with the quite young girls. She says, well, that was
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for a reason. He was trying to find new girls
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for him and Jeffrey to absolutely ruin, and that's just
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the truth. Laura believes that while the competition was legit
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and well organized, he knew exactly which girls were vulnerable.
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He seemed to control their finances. She says the girls
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from Brazil and Eastern Europe countries seemed to be prime targets.
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That was the mo and it didn't matter where they
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were America, Europe, South America. It was all about vulnerable girls. Remember,
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it was all about the corrosion, right, and it was
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easier for them to rope in vulnerable girls who wanted
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to change their circumstances in life. So you promised them
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all these big, you know, opportunities, these jobs, trips, whatever.
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People want to believe that right, and make no mistakes.
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Somebody like Jean lu Bruna Do was a master manipulator.
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He knew exactly what he was doing. In fact, he
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had this whole entire thing perfected, and him and Epstein
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were able to exploit this pipeline for decades. Glossia says.
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Towards the end of the trip, Brunel offered the fly
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her to New York to take part in shows, with
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all expenses paid. At that point they had contacted her mother,
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Barbara for permission. Barbara's response, no, not a chance. They
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were only looking for childrens. Barbara says, Unfortunately they found
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my daughter. She forbade Glossia from any more involvement in
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modeling and cut ties with Brunell's network. It really was
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a narrow escape, says Glossia. In files released by the
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US government, BBC News Brazil found records showing that Epstein
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was in Gillakill on the twenty fourth and twenty fifth
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of August two thousand and four, at the same time
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as the final of the modeling competition. We also saw
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documents indicating that at least one model under sixteen who
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attended the event flew on Epstein's plan at least twice
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in the same year. And we all know the deal, right,
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Let's not be naive here. We all know why this
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little girl was flown to Jeffrey Epstein's house. But sure
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no wonder age girls, right. Imagine being one of these
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scumbags running around talking like that, and it seems like
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all the people that are talking like that are also
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super pro war. I wonder why. Glossias says that, looking back,
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without knowing it, I was in the middle of that
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storm and my mother saved me. Another Brazilian woman whom
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we are calling Anna to protect her identity, says that
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Brunel and his modeling business were instrumental in facilitating her
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relationship with Epstein. Anna was initially recruited by a Brazilian
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woman in the early two thousands in sal Palo. Anna's account,
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corroborated by documents reviewed by the BBC and cross checked
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against US Department of Justice records, shows how Brunell helped
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to arrange US visas for Brazilians. Anna says that she
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left her hometown in southern Brazil after being promised modeling
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opportunities in sal Palo by a woman who was based there.
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She says that on arrival, the woman took her documents
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and told her she now owed money for traveling photos.
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Anna says she soon realized there was no modeling work.
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She was a madam. Before I knew it, she was
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pimping me out. One of the clients was Jeffrey Epstein,
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says Anna. She described how a few weeks after her
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eighteenth birthday, the woman took her to the home of
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a prominent businessman in sal Palo. There, she says she
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heard him describe Epstein as the king of the world
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and say he likes younger girls. A few days later,
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she says that she and two other women were sent
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to a luxury hotel in sal Palo, where Epstein would
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choose one of them. He chose me, she says, And
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this is what I was telling you folks earlier. There's
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going to be women that come out from these other
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countries that we have never heard from before. And once
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one crack shows up in the dam, that's usually the
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beginning of the end. And we saw that when this
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story first broke, one person came out, then another, then another,
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then another. And my guess is internationally, we're going to
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see that process start to take place as well, especially
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in places like Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Keep your eyes
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on those places, because, in my opinion, there's a whole
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lass other story that still hasn't been uncovered. Anna says
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that she went to a room with Epstein where he
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asked her to remove her clothes. His thing was watching
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me while he touched himself. It was disgusting, but of
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all evils, the less for one, she says. US Justice
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Department files, including emails and flight records, place Epstein in
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Brazil at that time. She says he invited her to
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a party in the city a few days later, which
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is where she first met Brunel, and the modeling agent
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soon became instrumental in arranging a US visa. Four. She
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adds that during the party, Epstein told her that she
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was going to Paris the next day and that he
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had already arranged for her to go with them. Describing
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the trip to France, she says that Epstein would give
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me three hundred dollars. I would go out for a
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walk and give him the change, but he would tell
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me to keep the money. He would test me and
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leave money in my room, and then I would give
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it back to him and he would say I could
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keep it. All about control, right, all about manipulation, and
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all about letting her know who was calling the shots.
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That's what that's all about. Anna showed the BBC or
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a passport containing a US business visa with an annotation
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naming the agency that Brunell set up in the US,
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Karen Models of America. Anna says she never worked for
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Karen Models, but was told the paperwork would support her
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travel to the US and the only reason for her
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visa was to visit Epstein, and we know what that
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was for. She wasn't there to hang out. I'm sure
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she wasn't there to talk about Carnival or Brazilian jiu jitsu.
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For what's going on down in Rio. We know why
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Epstein had her there. Her statement matches other documents. Court
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records in US Department of Justice files indicate that Brunel
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used his agency, first Call Karen Models of America and
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later MC squared in America to attract girls from several countries,
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including miners. The same records include testimony from a former
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MC squared employee in the US saying Epstein paid for
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visas which Brunell's agency in the US arranged. Epstein had
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provided financial backing when Brunell set up MC squared in
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the US. There has never been any suggestion that any
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agency other than those managed and controlled by Brunell in
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the US were involved in any wrongdoing. Well, I have
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my doubts about that. I certainly have my doubts about
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all of that. I mean, do we really think that
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Brunell was the only dirtbag doing this and that these
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agencies were the only ones to ever get down? Somebody
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better tell Gerald Marie. Before he died, Brunell denied he
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had done anything wrong. His lawyers said that he had
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been crushed by the allegations and blamed a media judicial system.
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Oh yeah, everybody else's fault. Meanwhile, there is evidence a
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mountain high that Brunell was not only trafficking girls to
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Jeffrey Epstein, but was also having girls traffick to himself.
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Anna says that over the course of about four months,
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she traveled to the US in France with Epstein, who
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was affectionate towards her. She describes how during that time
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he paid for some English lessons. Ada says that her
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visa was canceled in Miami after US authorities questioned who
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was paying for her work and whether she was receiving
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money in the United States. She says that she traveled
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to the country at least six times to spend time
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with Epstein before the visa was canceled. She says that
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she went to his private island in the US Virgin
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Islands and thought he considered her his girlfriend until she
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found him in bed with somebody else. Until then, it
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hadn't sunk in that he did this with many girls.
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She says, on several occasions he would tell me to
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leave the house and do something, go to a museum,
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go to classes. I don't know if anything happened that
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he didn't want me to see. He liked younger girls
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and being surrounded by them. She adds that she had
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sex with them once and he likes sleeping, spooning, cuddling,
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and having his feet massaged. That all tracks sounds exactly
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like the scumbag we know. She says that Epstein once
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told her that Brunel had asked to sleep with her,
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but he refused, saying I didn't let him because you're mine.
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Anna says that she didn't know whether to feel grateful
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or more terrified, and after that she felt Brunel was
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like a wolf looking at a lamb, always with devouring eyes,
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both for other girls and me. Anna says that for
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the first meeting at the hotel and the trip to Paris,
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there was an agreement that Epstein would pay the Brazilian
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madam ten thousand dollars. She says that Epstein only paid
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part of that amount, and that she over her phone
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calls in which the woman pressured him to pay the remainder.
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This account is consistent with testimony given in twenty ten
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in court in Florida by a former accountant at mc
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squared in the US, Brunell's model agency, and cited in
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the Epstein files. The accountant said there was a Brazilian
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woman who arranged girls for Epstein and Brunel in Brazil
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and was angry over a debt. According to Anna, contact
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with the Brazilian woman who recruited her faded after she
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released the documents, but Anna continued to see Epstein. Anna
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says that after the visa was canceled, Epstein offered to
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get her a green card to live in the US,
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but she declined so she could stay close to her
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family in Brazil. And this was the whole scam, right,
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They'd get these girls locked in, they'd get them visas,
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they'd get immigration paperwork, and then they'd own them, bring
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them to America, put them in that dumbass building on
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E sixty six, and the abuse would begin. Brazil's Federal
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Public Prosecutor's office opened an investigation in February into whether
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there was recruitment network in Brazil linked to Epstein. Federal
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Prosecutor Cynthia Gabrielle Borgies from the National Anti Trafficking Unit,
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told the BBC that she wanted to speak to women
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who had contact with Epstein to work out how the
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system operated. The women themselves are not the target of
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the inquiry. What happened to Anna and others could be
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considered human trafficking for sexual exploitation, according to labor inspector
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and researcher Marissio Krepsky. He says that this type of
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crime may not be subject to statute of limitation, so
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Brazilians involved could still be held accountable. Well, that would
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be nice, huh, some accountability here. Glossia is grateful that
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she and her mother who said no, and after years
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of trying to make sense of what happened to her,
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and it feels fortunate to have left Epstein's circle and
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rebuilt her life. I think I was lucky, but I
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feel for the other women, she says, And unfortunately, I
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expect to hear more stories like this from more women
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in South America. And at some point we have to
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get around to talking about the immigration fraud that led
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to all that abuse and who signed off on it,
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because I think it's pretty clear that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't
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working alone. And when you step back and look at
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the entire Epstein saga through that lens, the Brunel pipe line,
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forces of very uncomfortable realization this wasn't just a story
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about one predator operating in elite social circles. It wasn't
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just a scandal involving wealthy men and powerful connections. What
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the Brunell operation reveals is something far more systematic. It
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shows that Epstein's enterprise had global supply lines, real functioning
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recruitment channels that reached deep into vulnerable regions and delivered
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a steady flow of young women into his orbit. That
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pipeline running through South and Central America wasn't an accident.
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It wasn't some side operation that happened on the margins
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of Epstein's world. It was a strategic component of how
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the machine sustained itself. Domestic recruitment in places like Palm
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Beach provided a local base of victims, but the international
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recruitment system dramatically expanded the scale of what Epstein was
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able to do. Jean Luke Brunell's model infrastructure provided the
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perfect cover fashion agencies move young women across borders every day.
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That normality became the camouflage for something far darker, and
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that's one of the most chilling aspects of the entire story.
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The pipeline didn't rely on force in the traditional sense.
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It relied on dreams. It relied on aspiration. Young women
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from Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and other parts of
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the region were told they had a chance at the
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modeling world. They were promised opportunity glamour away out of
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economic hardship. In reality, many of them were being steered
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into a network that existed to satisfy the appetites of
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some of the wealthiest and most powerful men on earth.
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And what makes this even more disturbing is how effectively
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the system exploited distance and isolation. A young girl flown
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thousands of miles from home doesn't have the same support
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system she would in her own country. She doesn't have
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family nearby, she doesn't necessarily speak the language fluently, she
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doesn't understand the legal system. That vulnerability becomes leverage, and
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then a trafficking operation, leverage is everything. For years, whispers
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about Brunell's circulated within the modeling industry. Survivors talked, rumors
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traveled through agencies and fashion circles, and yet the pipeline continued.
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Flights continued, recruitment continued, The system kept moving forward, quietly
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feeding Epstein's network with new victims from abroad. And that's
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why the Brunell connection is so important to understand. It
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exposes the logistical backbone of Epstein's operation. It demonstrates that
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this wasn't just a collection of crimes committed in isolation.
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It was an infrastructure, an interconnected web of recruiters, travel arrangements,
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modeling contracts, handlers, and wealthy clients, a system that cross
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borders and operated in the blind spots between jurisdictions. And
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the tragedy is that much of that system was never
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fully dismantled in a court of law. Jean lu Brunel
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died in custody before facing trial. Epstein himself died before
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answering the full scope of the allegations against him. That
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means that many of the operational details, the full reach
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of the recruitment networks, the complete list of facilitators, the
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extent of the international pipeline, remained partially hidden, but the
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outlines are there. Survivors have described it, investigators have traced it.
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Documents and depositions have pointed to it again and again,
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a recruitment channel stretching from vulnerable communities in South and
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Central America into the heart of Epstein's world. And when
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you understand that the Epstein story stops being a scandal
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about elites behaving badly. It becomes something much larger. It
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becomes a case study and how trafficking networks can hide
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inside legitimate industries, how power and wealth can chill predation,
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how vulnerable people thousands of miles away can become commodities
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in a system designed to exploit them. That pipeline, the
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Brunel pipeline, is one of the clearest windows and how
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the Epstein machine actually worked. And if we're serious about
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understanding the full scope of that machine, then that part
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of the story can't remain hidden in the shadows any longer.
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All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
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And to everybody who has taken some time to shoot
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me an email today for my birthday, I appreciate all
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of you. As usual. All the information that goes with
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