By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline
Published: 20:14 EDT, 1 September 2019 | Updated: 02:28 EDT, 2 September 2019
A millionaire model agency boss who is thought to have key information about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal 'has disappeared like a ghost without a trace'.
Jean-Luc Brunel, 72, has vanished as police seek to ask the Frenchman 'urgent' questions about the paedophile.
Investigators are making enquiries in Brazil, the US and Europe and French prosecutors are also pursuing claims relating to the financier, who died aged 66 before he could face the latest allegations.
A friend of Prince Andrew, predator Epstein killed himself in jail on August 10 as he faced child sex trafficking charges.
French authorities want to speak with Jean-Luc Brunel (pictured) to ask him 'urgent' questions regarding Jeffrey Epstein
Brunel - who founded New York's MC2 - denies any involvement with crimes committed by Epstein.
A Paris legal source told the Daily Mirror: 'He is a ghost who has disappeared without trace.'
It comes after former model Svetlana Pozhidaeva, who was signed to MC2, was pictured at convicted paedophile Epstein's mansion in New York back in 2016.
Russian Ms Pozhidaeva, whose father is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Red Army, denies it is her in the picture.
Prince Andrew was photographed standing in the doorway of the same building the day before.
Virginia Roberts, who was a victim of Esptein's, claims to have slept with Prince Andrew three times.
Pozhidaeva, who was signed to Brunel's agency was pictured (right) outside the New York mansion of Epstein (left)
The Duke of York has vehemently denied that he slept with her and says he knew nothing about Epstein's illegal behaviour.
Roberts says she also slept with Brunel 'many times' when she was aged 16 to 19. Many of the girls believed to have been used by Epstein are alleged to have been 'sourced' in Paris.
Epstein owned a £7million apartment in the French capital, where Brunel also lived. The agency boss was searching for new talent in Brazil until the start of this summer.
This month, French prosecutors have started a preliminary inquiry into whether Epstein sexually abused minors from France.
They say Brunel is 'uncontactable' because he has no address, internet accounts or social media.
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