Newly released photographs of Jeffrey Epstein’s Paris apartment have pulled back the curtain on one of the deceased sex offender’s most disturbing properties, revealing a sordid hideaway filled with sex toys, a massage table and walls covered with images of naked women.
French newspaper Le Parisien published the images, which expose the interior of the 18-room apartment located on Avenue Foch, one of Paris’s most prestigious addresses.
Among the photographs is an image showing Epstein himself lying beside two topless women.
The apartment, which Epstein purchased in 2001, features a red-walled massage chamber that Paris prosecutors believe was used to carry out sex crimes.
One photograph shows a shadowy room containing a drawer with two large wand vibrators inside. The property’s interior design spans several themed spaces, including a “Chinese room” with dragon wallpaper, a red-leather study and a rotunda featuring a bearskin rug with views overlooking the Arc de Triomphe.
Animal décor fills multiple rooms throughout the apartment, including antelope horns, a stuffed elephant calf, a stuffed vulture and furniture upholstered in faux tiger skins.
The property also contained a sauna and a gym, per multiple media outlets.
The photographs were originally taken by local French police during a 2019 investigation into rape allegations against Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and longtime associate of Epstein, according to the New York Post.
Brunel was also under investigation for trafficking minors, some as young as 12 years old, at the time of his death.He was found dead in his Paris prison cell in 2022 while awaiting trial on rape charges.
Authorities ruled his death a suicide, stating he had hanged himself with bed sheets, reported the Post.
The outlet has also highlighted that following the United States Department of Justice’s release of millions of files connected to Epstein, French investigators opened two new probes this month — one focusing on human trafficking and another targeting alleged financial crimes.
Investigators are also reviewing materials from the original Brunel investigation as part of the renewed effort.
“We are hoping all this data will help us get a well-informed, very broad, panoramic view [of the case],” chief Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau stated, according to the Times.
The DOJ’s document release has already had significant consequences, including the arrest of former Duke of York Prince Andrew and a French investigation into former culture minister Jack Lang, while other high-profile figures have resigned from prominent positions in the aftermath.
Public attention on the Epstein case surged following a joint memo issued by the FBI and DOJ last July, which concluded that Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 and did not maintain a so-called “client list” of wealthy and powerful individuals to whom he allegedly trafficked girls as young as 14, contrary to widespread public speculation.
