One of the lead villains in the history of fashion modeling, Jean-Luc Brunel, was found dead, hanging in his cell in a Paris prison this morning. A major character in my book Model, he was being held for trial, accused of sexual assault of a minor, after he was first tied to the pedophile pervert and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died under similar circumstances. I wrote about Brunel again during the investigation for The Daily Beast, chronicling a terrifying night I spent in his company when he was still riding high. I’d conducted one of the few lengthy interviews he ever gave to a journalist earlier that day. UPDATE: Texas Republican Senator Ted “Cancun” Cruz seems to think Hillary Clinton is responsible for Brunel’s death.