Link between Jeffrey Epstein case and Brazil revealed in new documents: “Large Brazilian group”

In one excerpt, the notes describe the physical characteristics of a person mentioned as having “darker skin” and an “Amazonian appearance”, who was said to have been “brought to the end, in a moment of desperation”, when those involved were “running out of girls”.

In another part of the handwritten report, there is mention of someone who “had just arrived from Brazil” and “was a role model”.

The document states that JE “was really in love with her” and that he “may have talked about doing a sketch or painting.”

A side note says “lived with mother at 13, left home at 14”.

The same document also contains photos whose captions speak of a “Brazilian party” and a “Brazilian parade,” but scratches prevent identification of the location or people involved.

The report also discusses the ages of the girls, with Epstein’s preference for minors.

“At one point, (Tarja) saw him asking the girls for ID. He wanted to make sure they were under 18 because he didn’t believe them because (Tarja) had ruined everything by taking older girls.”

In addition to the report involving Brazilians now released, reports in recent years in Brazil and other countries indicate that a known partner of Epstein was in Brazil in 2019, former French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was also accused of trafficking women.

Brunel was found dead in prison in Paris, France, in 2022. He had been detained since a formal investigation began, after being accused of sexually harassing and raping young people aged 15 to 18 in France. He denied the accusations.

The agent was co-founder of the French modeling agency Karin Models, established in 1977, and MC2 Models Management, in the United States, and financed by Epstein.

US court documents showed Brunel recruited girls for Epstein, promised them fashion deals and took them on a plane between France and the United States.

An article in the British newspaper The Guardian, published in August 2019, reports that while Epstein’s allies disappeared from public life in the years following his plea deal, “Brunel continued to travel the world in search of young women and girls who could become role models.”

The newspaper said Brunel was in Brazil in 2019 to “find new models to take to the United States” and that when a reporter visited a Miami apartment owned by Brunel, the door was answered by a young woman who said she was a Brazilian model who was there to work for MC2, his agency, and that there were at least three other models staying in the apartment.

Another Agência Pública report, published in November, showed a photo of Brunel published in 2019 by a modeling agency, Mega Model Brasília, with a caption stating that he “was here (in Brasília) today for a foundry to take our models to New York.”

Nivaldo Leite, director of the agency, tells BBC News Brasil that there was no contact with Brunel after the visit and that no models from the Brazilian agency would have traveled with him.

According to the report, Brunel also visited cities in other states.

BBC News Brasil found the same image still available on the social network, subtitled in English, on the agency’s page on the social network Facebook.

In addition to the photo, we find in the same publication at least two videos of models parading, republished by the director of the agency on his Facebook profile, with the same text which says that Brunel and his team “will always be welcome with us”.

The report asks the Brazilian government whether there is or has been an initiative to identify Brazilians involved in the Epstein case.

The Ministry of Justice and Public Security and Itamaraty informed that the request should be addressed to the Federal Police, which in turn responded that it “does not comment on the ongoing investigation.”

Nivaldo Leite, director of Mega Model, tells BBC News Brasil that Brunel “just went to the agency to visit and get to know our structure”, but that no model from the agency traveled or contacted him afterwards.

“Absolutely certain none! I am personally responsible for the international operations of the agency,” he says. He said the company had not been contacted by any authority to provide information about Brunel.

Leite says Brunel was in Brasilia visiting agencies and asked if he could meet the Mega Model. “We had just opened the physical structure of the mall.”

Leite claims he knew neither Brunel nor Epstein, not even by name.

“The agency was in the shopping center open to all. I remember he was in a hurry because of the theft,” he says.

“He visited the space, he told me he had an international agency in Europe, if I’m not mistaken. I think he left him a business card, in case I was interested in partnerships. Shortly after the pandemic happened and I never heard from him again. I don’t even know if he’s alive or if I know his agency,” he continues.

“I didn’t know his connections or this person (Epstein) asking me the question. I haven’t spoken to him at all from a personal point of view.”