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| Police have searched the Paris apartment of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a French investigation into trafficking claims against the disgraced US financier. | |
| Investigators arrived at Epstein’s luxury 800 sq metre apartment on the exclusive Avenue Foch near the Arc de Triomphe on Monday afternoon and worked through the night to search the premises. | |
| Police also searched the offices of Karin Models, an agency founded by Epstein’s associate Jean-Luc Brunel, as part of a child sex abuse investigation. | Police also searched the offices of Karin Models, an agency founded by Epstein’s associate Jean-Luc Brunel, as part of a child sex abuse investigation. |
| Brunel, a once-powerful modelling tycoon and one of Epstein’s close friends, had been accused in US court documents of procuring minors for Epstein. He has previously denied any wrongdoing. | |
| Epstein was found hanged in his New York jail cell on 10 August while awaiting trial on new sex-trafficking charges. | Epstein was found hanged in his New York jail cell on 10 August while awaiting trial on new sex-trafficking charges. |
| Last month, the chief Paris prosecutor opened an investigation into the rape of minors and a series of other charges linked to the Epstein case in US. French investigators picked up the case after US investigators found links in France to the financier. | Last month, the chief Paris prosecutor opened an investigation into the rape of minors and a series of other charges linked to the Epstein case in US. French investigators picked up the case after US investigators found links in France to the financier. |
| French officers are investigating claims that Epstein and others participated in a vast child sex trafficking ring for years. | French officers are investigating claims that Epstein and others participated in a vast child sex trafficking ring for years. |
| Three women have already given evidence to investigators in France. They included a former Dutch model, Thysia Huisman, who said she was drugged and raped by Brunel at a Paris apartment in the early 1990s. | |
| Brunel has been accused in US court documents of rape and of procuring young girls for Epstein - charges he has denied. | Brunel has been accused in US court documents of rape and of procuring young girls for Epstein - charges he has denied. |
| Virginia Giuffre, who filed a suit in the US, accused Epstein of sexual abuse and using her as a “sex slave”, saying she had been forced to sleep with well-known politicians and businessmen, including Brunel. | Virginia Giuffre, who filed a suit in the US, accused Epstein of sexual abuse and using her as a “sex slave”, saying she had been forced to sleep with well-known politicians and businessmen, including Brunel. |
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