Did a Miami-based modeling agency fuel Jeffrey Epstein's 'machine of abuse'?

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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. It’s 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 Epstein’s 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 Epstein’s personal catwalk?

The underage girls from Royal Palm Beach High, shopping malls and trailer parks enticed to Epstein’s waterfront estate to give him massages — massages that turned into sexual assaults — weren’t the Palm Beach multimillionaire’s only victims. He also had an appetite for models, and Brunel fed that appetite.

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1. Where is the damn client list ?