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Overview
- Glaucia Fekete, now 38, says she was 16 when French agent Jean‑Luc Brunel invited her from a Guayaquil contest to New York, but her mother blocked the trip.
- Brunel visited the family home in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, to press the opportunity and promised Fekete would win the Ecuador event, which featured contestants aged 15 to 19.
- Documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice show Epstein sought access to Brazilian girls through modeling contests, agencies and media purchases, and indicate he was in Guayaquil for the contest final.
- The DOJ materials and related records describe Brunel’s agencies, including MC2 said to have received Epstein funding, as conduits for visas that enabled young women to travel to the United States.
- A U.S. police deposition cites an unidentified witness alleging Brunel trafficked four Brazilian girls to the U.S., two minors, while survivor Marina Lacerda, who went public in 2025, alleges roughly 50 Brazilian victims.