Former Model In Livermore Speaks Out Against Epstein Associate

LIVERMORE, CA — A former model who now lives in Livermore is again voicing frustration over sexual assault claims against a former Jeffrey Epstein associate that she says are being "swept under the rug" by French officials.

She was then a 19-year-model living in Paris going by her maiden name, Courtney Powell. The Livermore resident alleges that in 1988 she was assaulted by Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent who is accused by at least one other woman of procuring young females for Jeffrey Epstein and other high-powered men, according to an Associated Press report that appeared in the Washington Post on Thursday.

The disgraced American financier Epstein was arrested in July by federal officials on sex-trafficking charges, but in August he took his own life in a New York jail cell.

Soerensen and women like her have expressed dismay at the slow pace of a French police probe into their assault allegations against Brunel. Soerensen first spoke out against Brunel decades ago, telling a “60 Minutes” investigation in 1988 that the French modeling agent was running a “meat market. You are there for the purpose of somebody wanting to take you home to bed.”

The CBS episode titled "American Girls in Paris" can be watched here: