Ghislaine Maxwell’s family ‘fears for her safety’ after Brunel found dead

The family of Ghislaine Maxwell say they worry for her security after mannequin agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his Paris jail cell on Saturday.

Maxwell, who was convicted final 12 months of intercourse trafficking, allegedly launched Brunel to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was found hanging in his Manhattan lockup in August 2019.

“It’s really shocking,” Ian Maxwell, considered one of Ghislaine’s siblings, instructed The Post. “Another death by hanging in a high-security prison. My reaction is one of total shock and bewilderment.”

NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 11: Ghislaine Maxwell attends NATIONAL URBAN TECH CENTER 2014 Gala at Three Sixty on June 11, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Jimi Celeste/Patrick McMullan by way of Getty Image
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MODELING AGENT CLOSE TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS FOUND DEAD IN FRENCH JAIL

In an interview from his residence in London, Maxwell mentioned the family “fears for her safety” on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn the place she is being held.

Following her Dec. 29 conviction on sexual abuse fees, Maxwell was put right into a room on the jail with a psychiatrist and two others, together with a guard with the whole lot recorded on digicam, her brother mentioned.

“Despite the psychiatrist advising to the contrary, she was deemed a suicide risk and they are continuing to wake her up every 15 minutes in the night. It’s a complete violation of prisoner rights and human rights,” Ian Maxwell mentioned.

Maxwell insisted his youthful sister just isn’t suicidal, and mentioned that it was “ironic” that Epstein and Brunel who died of obvious suicides weren’t on suicide watches of their respective prisons. Epstein had been taken off suicide watch shortly earlier than his loss of life in August, 2019.

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Last month, Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, formally requested a retrial after a juror within the case instructed media that he used his personal expertise of being sexually abused as a way to affect his friends on the jury to succeed in a responsible verdict.

Maxwell was convicted final 12 months of intercourse trafficking.
(SDNY)

Maxwell’s lawyer Bobbi Sternheim refused remark Saturday.

Brunel, who ran Karin Models in Paris, and later shaped MC2 Model Management with Epstein, was charged with securing women and younger girls for Epstein.

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He was awaiting trial when he was found hanged by his bedsheets in his cell round 1:30 a.m. native time at La Sante jail, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace instructed CNN.

Maxwell formally requested a retrial final month.
(Reuters)

French jail authorities instructed native media that “no breach” in safety on the jail had occurred, and an investigation into the reason for loss of life had been launched.