A woman calling herself an “unknown” victim of Jeffrey Epstein contacted the Justice Department in November 2021 to make allegations about a man she said was “100x worse” than Ghislaine Maxwell, newly released emails show.
Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and longtime Epstein friend, “for 40 years traffic[ked] women internationally,” the tipster wrote, more than four months after Brunel was arrested in France for allegedly raping girls.
A photo of Jean-Luc Brunel (left) with Ghislaine Maxwell was included in the DOJ’s Epstein files dump in December 2025. via REUTERS
American film director Brett Ratner (right) poses with Jean-Luc Brunel in an undated photograph released by the DOJ on December 19. via REUTERS“He is 100x worse than Maxwell. Maxwell is bad and guilty but she is nothing compared to him. If you are interested in more information or stories about them/Maxwell please let me know,” the woman wrote. “I was a victim of them and MANY others they all knew.”
It’s unclear if the Justice Department contacted the woman, whose name was redacted in documents.
Brunel was found dead in his French jail cell in February 2022. Authorities said he hanged himself.
The communication was part of a sprawling Friday document release pursuant to a transparency law.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday morning that the public won’t find new evidence of powerful men who preyed upon Epstein’s victims within “two Eiffel Towers” of documents being released.
“Is the public going to learn about men that abused these girls? Like, what does that mean? … I don’t know whether there are men out there that abused these women,” Blanche said at a press conference.
“I don’t think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abused women. Unfortunately.”
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The documents do, however, add new information about Epstein’s relationship with figures such as former Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who are described in new files as being gifted an Apple Watch and contracting an STD, respectively.
An Epstein files email shows federal agents tried to contact 10 “co-conspirators”—including billionaire retail magnate Jean-Luc Brunel. U.S. Department of JusticePrevious releases detailed former President Bill Clinton, writer Michael Wolff and President Trump’s associations with Epstein, who cozied up to many of the world’s business and political elite in what Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — Epstein’s ex-neighbor — described as an elaborate blackmail operation.
Blanche told reporters he was “not aware” of evidence to support a claim by Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend-turned-madam, that 29 Epstein associates are being protected by the Justice Department in “secret settlements.”
Blanche spent two days in July interviewing Maxwell in prison about the scandal — after a DOJ memo said the disgraced financier abused “over one thousand victims,” though only he and Maxwell faced criminal charges.
“There’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents,” Blanche said.






