Jeffrey Epstein searched for two EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girls to sexually abuse after enlisting the help of fixer pal, court docs suggest
JEFFREY Epstein was offered two eight-year-old girls to sexually abuse by a prominent modelling agent, court documents suggest.
Messages left for the billionaire and convicted paedophile by friend Jean-Luc Brunel, himself the subject of abuse allegations, describe a female "2 x 8 years old" willing to give "Russian lessons".
Esptein is currently facing federal charges of child sex trafficking and numerous allegations of child sexual abuse, all of which he denies.
He is already a registered sex offender, having pleaded guilty to a charge of procuring a girl below the age of 18 for prostitution in 2008 and served 13 months of an 18-month jail term.
Federal prosecutors brought charges against Epstein after police reportedly found a cache of naked photographs of underage girls in a safe in his Manhattan mansion the day he was arrested earlier this month.
The discovery has intensified criticism of Alexander Acosta, former United States Attorney in Miami and President Trump's current labour secretary, for a plea agreement struck with Epstein that shielded him from federal prosecution in 2008.
'SHE CAN TEACH YOU RUSSIAN'
The messages from Brunel appeared on a notepad seized by police ahead of his 2008 conviction, images of which were obtained under an FOIA request by .
The first, left at 8:08am on April 1 2005, read: "He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian.
"She is 2 x 8 years old not blonde. Lessons are free and you can have 1st today if call me back."
Brunel then called again at 8:31am and 9:04am asking Epstein to respond.
The notes were submitted as evidence against Epstein by Bradley Edwards, with whom he has been embroiled in a series of legal battles since Edwards first began representing Epstein's alleged victims at the time of his 2008 trial.
Epstein first sued Edwards, accusing Edwards of lying about him to bring money into his law firm, but was later forced to pay damages and issue an apology after Edwards filed his own suit.
One court filing referring to the messages, submitted by Edwards and the lawyer representing him for his own case, read: "In light of these circumstances of the case, this message reasonably suggested to Edwards that Brunel might have been procuring two eight-year-old girls for Epstein to sexually abuse."
'GIRLS FROM IMPOVERISHED BACKGROUNDS'
Frenchman Brunel, co-founder of the MC2 modelling agency, has himself been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse and of having procured underage girls for abuse by wealthy and powerful associates.
Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's alleged victims, claims in court documents filed against Epstein that Brunel would "bring young girls (ranging to ages as young as 12) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein.”
"Brunel would offer the girls ‘modeling’ jobs," she says.
"Many of the girls came from poor countries or impoverished backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.”
Brunel also denies the allegations.
Edwards's court filing says of Brunel: "According to widely circulated press reports reviewed by Edwards, Brunel is in his sixties and has a reputation throughout the world (and especially in the modeling industry) as a cocaine addict that has for years molested children through modeling agencies while acting as their agent — conduct that has been the subject of critical reports, books, several news articles, and a 60 Minutes documentary on Brunel’s sexual exploitation of underage models."
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Roberts also claimed in court filings against Epstein that she was forced on numerous occasions to have sex with Prince Andrew, allegations the prince strongly denies.
A judge threw those allegations out because they were "immaterial and impertinent" to Epstein's case.
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