And now that whole ending - which would help form closure - is taken away from me.'Ī lawyer representing Huisman and other victims, Anne-Claire Le Jeune, said other women involved in the case feel the same.

'For me, the end of this was to be in court. 'It makes me angry, because I've been fighting for years,' Huisman, a Dutch former model who told police she was drugged and raped by Brunel as a teen, told The Associated Press. One of them, Thysia Huisman, said Saturday that the news of Brunel's death sent her into 'shock.' Multiple women who identified themselves as victims have spoken to police since the French probe was opened in 2019, and at times expressed frustration with the slow pace of the investigation. One of Epstein's main accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has alleged that Brunel procured women, some of them minors, for sex with Epstein and other people, luring them with promises of modeling work. Epstein traveled often to France and had apartments in Paris. A frequent companion of Epstein, Brunel was considered central to the French investigation into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by the U.S. Brunel's legal team had repeatedly complained about the conditions of his detention and sought to have him released pending trial.īrunel was detained at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport in 2020 as part of a broad French probe unleashed by the U.S. Paris police are investigating Brunel's death, the prosecutor's office said. 'His decision was not guided by guilt, but by a deep sentiment of injustice.' The lawyers would not further comment on what happened. 'Jean-Luc Brunel never stopped declaring his innocence,' they said. In a statement, they described his 'distress' and repeated requests for provisional release from jail. They described his death as a double blow, after Epstein killed himself in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting sex-trafficking charges.īrunel's lawyers suggested Saturday that he, too, killed himself.

Victims of the alleged abuse described shock and dismay that the 75-year-old agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, will never face trial. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape and sex trafficking of minors, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. Cambridge Associates declined to comment.īlack, who co-founded Apollo in 1990, asked that the board’s conflicts committee, made up of independent board members, retain outside counsel to conduct a “thorough review” of the information he had shared about his relationship with Epstein, Apollo said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.A modelling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. Bloomberg News reported that Cambridge Associates, which manages about $32 billion on behalf of institutional investors, said it may stop recommending Apollo funds to investors. The Financial Times was the first to report PSERS’ comment.

“We are closely monitoring the situation in accordance with our fiduciary duty.” “PSERS is closely following the ongoing legal issues and the newly launched internal Apollo investigation,” PSERS spokesman Steve Esack said in a statement.Ī spokeswoman for New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who manages the city’s five public pension funds totaling approximately $228.67 billion in assets, said in a statement they were “troubled” by these reports. On Wednesday, the $57 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) said it would not consider any new investments in Apollo funds after speaking with the buyout firm about Black’s involvement with Epstein. The news has sent shock waves through Wall Street, where Apollo reigns as one of the largest investors in corporate credit and leveraged buyouts, with $414 billion in assets under management as of the end of June. The 69-year-old private equity veteran said the payments were for advice on estate planning, taxes and philanthropy. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholsonīlack wrote to Apollo’s fund investors last week that he regretted making payments to Epstein for what he called “professional services,” but has denied any wrongdoing or inappropriate conduct related to his business and social relationship with him.īlack, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at $7.8 billion, was responding to a New York Times story that reported he had wired between $50 million and $75 million to Epstein over the last decade. FILE PHOTO: Leon Black, Chairman, CEO and Director, Apollo Global Management, LLC, speaks at the Milken Institute's 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

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