The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails.

French prosecutors say a modeling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell.

FILE - In this Aug.13, 2019 file photo, a man walks his dog next to an apartment building owned by Jeffrey Epstein in Paris. Modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel who was close to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has been taken into custody in France, suspected of an array of crimes, including the rape of minors and trafficking minors for sexual exploitation, Paris prosecutors said Thursday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)PARIS – A modeling agent associated with disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 years old. It said Brunel was not handed any human trafficking charges, which was one of the main lines of inquiry. Brunel is being investigated as part of a broad French probe into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by Epstein and his circle.

Brunel was being investigated as part of a broad French probe into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by Epstein and his circle. The French agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, was detained Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and was being held in police custody for questioning, the Paris prosecutors' office said. Best Christmas present ever.”She broke down in tears when the prosecutors' list of suspected sex crimes for which Brunel was detained was read to her over the telephone. Tears of joy.”Huisman is among at least a dozen people known to have given evidence for the French probe. One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has alleged that Brunel procured women, some of them minors, for sex with Epstein and other people, luring them with promises of modeling work.

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers for the estate of Jeffrey Epstein want to set up a fund to compensate women who have accused him of sexual abuse. Police commissioner Philippe Guichard, whose office is leading the French probe, acknowledged in an AP interview Friday that their previous appeal for witnesses, worded only in French, had had limited success. He also said the evidence search had been hampered by a reluctance to talk in the closed world of modeling. The French probe was launched in August after Epstein took his life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.