Modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was in pretrial detention in Paris in the wake of a human trafficking and underage sex scandal focused on deceased US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead, the AFP news agency reported on Saturday. The French judiciary had opened investigations into the agent for the rape of minors and for sexual assault. The 76-year-old had been in pretrial detention for more than a year. Newspaper Le Parisien reported, citing judicial sources, that Brunel was discovered hanged in his cell some time during the night. Brunel was also suspected of having contacte…