The whistleblower, who claimed that he "looked after" Prince Andrew when he worked as the caretaker of Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in Paris, will reportedly be re-interviewed by French authorities.
Following the arrest of Jean-Luc Brunel, the fashion agent who was also a regular in the said mansion, a source told The Sun that a re-investigation of key witnesses might follow in light of new sexual abuse claims from Brunel's victims.
Brunel was arrested on Dec. 18 at the Charles de Gaulle Airport and has been criminally charged for rape, sexual assault on minors, sexual harassment, and human trafficking, after more than a year of the probe by the French authorities. Since he has denied the charges against him, reports cited that the police are keen to ask Epstein's ex-staff again to shed light on what they might have seen or heard in the house on Avenue Foch.
As with the Duke of York, the fashion agent is also a close friend of Epstein, who took his own life in prison in August 2019. The disgraced billionaire was then awaiting trial for his sex trafficking cases in Manhattan.
Andrew's accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has stated that Brunel "supplied" Epstein the women for his sex trafficking ring. Guiffre said in 2015 that Epstein used to brag about sleeping with more than "a thousand of Brunel's girls."
In 2019, the whistleblower told the authorities that Andrew was in Epstein's Paris home on more than one instance, even when Epstein was not in the country. The witness said that Epstein used this house to entertain a lot of high-profile guests, including politicians and businessmen, with several models. Police raided the Paris house and discovered the massage parlor where Epstein and his guests allegedly forced underage women into sleeping with them.
Since the discovery, authorities have been pushing with their investigation of Epstein's sex trafficking ring by scoping out more victims. At that time, Dai Davies of the Scotland Yard said that it would help the Duke of York clear his name if he agreed to a full investigation.
However, instead of speaking with the authorities, Andrew decided to do a tell-all interview with BBC, which aired two months after the raid of Epstein's Paris home. The move backfired on the Duke of York, leading him to resign as a working royal. He hasn't been back in The Firm and has been shunning public appearances since his resignation.
