Did a Miami-based modeling agency fuel Jeffrey Epstein's 'machine of abuse'?
By Linda Robertson, Julie K. Brown, and Nicholas Nehamas
The yellow sign for MC2 Model Management is still posted in a second-floor window overlooking Lincoln Road. Its an echo of the modeling mecca years, when South Beach was like walking into a Calvin Klein underwear ad, with head-turning men and women on every corner, and photo crews lined up on the sand.
The office has been locked for at least two years, tenants say, and the parade of aspiring cover girls has ceased.
Here Jeffrey Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel created the boutique firm MC2, years before Epsteins arrest on charges of sex-trafficking minors. What better pipeline than a modeling agency that would recruit young girls dreaming of a glamorous career and provide a stream of slender bodies, one after the other, as if they were strutting down Epsteins personal catwalk?
The underage girls from Royal Palm Beach High, shopping malls and trailer parks enticed to Epsteins waterfront estate to give him massages massages that turned into sexual assaults werent the Palm Beach multimillionaires only victims. He also had an appetite for models, and Brunel fed that appetite.
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