Thysia Huisman first read the rumour on social media. When her lawyer called to tell her it was true, she burst into tears.
It was Wednesday. Jean-Luc Brunel, once a key player in the modelling world, had been arrested as he was about to board a flight from Paris to Senegal.
Huisman, a former model, alleges that he raped her when she was a teenage ingenue. She is not alone. Brunel, 74, a former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, faces allegations that he used his position in the fashion industry to rape and sexually assault women, including minors, as well as trafficking girls across the world for the US paedophile. Brunel denies the allegations.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said yesterday that Brunel had been remanded
