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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011942)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| been on the edge of the system. John Casablancas gets with girls the healthy way. Girls would be |
| with him if he was the butcher. They're with Jean-Luc because he's the boss. Jean-Luc likes |
| drugs and silent rape. It excites him." |
| "I really despise Jean-Luc as a human being for the way he's cheapened the business," says John |
| Casablancas. "There is no justice. This is a guy who should be behind bars. There was a little |
| group, Jean-Luc, Patrick Gilles, and Varsano... They were very well-known in Paris for roaming |
| the clubs. They would invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew they were |
| creeps." |
| It should be noted that aside from being a professional rival, Casablancas, the founder of the |
| agency Elite, was eventually drubbed out of the industry for his own modelizing. How pervy do |
| you have to be for John Casablancas to call you a perv? |
| Pervy enough to drug and rape numerous teenagers, according to 60 Minutes and Diane Sawyer, |
| who investigated Brunel in 1988. The program interviewed nearly two dozen models who said |
| they had been sexually assaulted by Brunel and/or by his fellow agent, Claude Haddad. Even at |
| that time, Brunel had a reputation as a man one could go to to procure a "date" with a young |
| model. CBS spoke to five models who said that Brunel and/or his friends had drugged and raped |
| them. Said producer Craig Pyes, "Hundreds of girls were not only harassed, but molested." |
| When Gross interviewed Brunel, this is what he had to say for himself: |
| "You get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime? I don't understand why people go into your |
| personal life, what you do yourself, and to yourself, and they don't look at things that are really |
| important." |
| Since then, Brunel has been involved with a succession of agencies in New York and Paris. |
| Although the 60 Minutes scandal eventually led Eileen Ford to stop working with him, he |
| continued his involvement with Karins. In 1988, when powerhouse agency Next opened its |
| doors, Brunel took an ownership stake. He also "discovered" Christy Turlington when she was |
| 14. MC2 is only his latest venture. Because no criminal charges were ever filed by any of his |
| accusers, and because the industry has a short memory — most models working today weren't |
| even born when Sawyer and Pyes started looking into Brunel's activities - Brunel has been free |
| to continue as he pleases. A French citizen, he even avoided testifying in his friend Epstein's |
| trial. |
| And so Brunel is still criss-crossing the globe, trawling for S'10" 13-year-olds from Eastern |
| Europe and (the whiter parts of) South America. And apparently taking the occasional ride with |
| them on Epstein's private jet. Is there any better argument for the regulation of the modeling |
| industry? |
| http://nypost.com/2011/11/18/jeffrey-epsteins-level-3-sex-offender-status-upheld-by-ny-appeals- |
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