Around 10 'new' victims in France's Epstein probe have come forward, prosecutor says

Published on 18/05/2026 - 9:08 GMT+2

Around 10 "new" suspected victims person travel guardant arsenic portion of a French probe into the web of precocious US enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, a authoritative said connected Sunday.

France opened a quality trafficking probe aft the US Justice Department released the latest cache of files from the probe into the disgraced financier successful January, who died successful situation successful 2019 portion facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex.

French magistrates are seeking to analyse imaginable offences committed successful France oregon involving French perpetrators who facilitated his crimes.

Top Paris authoritative Laure Beccuau said astir 20 suspected victims had made themselves known aft she urged imaginable victims to talk up successful February.

Some were already known to investigators, she told the RTL broadcaster.

"But we besides had caller victims travel forward, ones we didn't cognize astatine all. There are astir 10 of them," she added.

"The prime we've made for the clip being is to perceive to these victims," she said.

"A definite fig of them are overseas truthful the investigators person tried to acceptable up meetings to suit erstwhile they are capable to travel to Paris."

Investigators were besides scouring done the alleged Epstein files and would beryllium searching them for immoderate names mentioned by alleged victims, she said.

"We person besides erstwhile again pulled retired Mr Epstein's computers, his telephone records, his code books," she said, adding her squad would beryllium "making requests for planetary assistance."

French investigators searched Epstein's luxury Paris flat successful September 2019, aft helium was recovered hanged successful his New York jailhouse compartment the erstwhile month.

Suspected victims already known to investigators included women who had spoken during investigations into erstwhile European exemplary bureau brag Gerald Marie and precocious exemplary cause Jean-Luc Brunel.

Fifteen women urged France to analyse Marie for imaginable links to Epstein successful March.

Investigators successful 2023 closed different probe into accusations Marie committed intersexual maltreatment successful the 1980s and 1990s due to the fact that it was excessively agelong agone to beryllium prosecuted.

French authorities arrested Brunel successful 2020 aft allegations helium sexually abused minors and procured victims for the US billionaire. He was recovered dormant successful situation successful 2022.

Two erstwhile models person told AFP that a modelling scout named Daniel Siad groomed them with the purpose of delivering them to Epstein successful 1 lawsuit successful the 2000s and Marie successful the different lawsuit successful the 1990s.

In the latest quality trafficking probe, "none of the radical who could perchance beryllium implicated person been questioned" truthful far, Beccuau said.

Epstein pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 to procuring for prostitution a miss nether the property of 18 and served 13 months successful situation earlier being released connected probation.