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MC2 Model Management

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tagsentity, modeling-industry, new-york, florida, mc2, epstein-correspondence
aliasesMC2, MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC, MC2 Model Management USA, MC2 Models Management, MC2 Model Management-NY, MC2 Model Mgt DBA Karin Models

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TypeModelling agency; named in the release as “MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC” in its own principal’s 2015 pleading, and as “MC2 Model Mgt DBA Karin Models” in a 2006 immigration petition record12
PrincipalJean-Luc Brunel (see his page for his biography, the French investigation and his death); this page covers the agency as a business
Offices on record6 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011 (recorded as the 2nd floor in 2011–2013 correspondence and as the 3rd floor on a 2012 invoice); 1674 Alton Rd., Suite 500, Miami, FL 33139345
Staff named in correspondenceJeff Fuller, signing as “MC2 Model Management USA”6 and as “MC2 Model Management”4; Dominique Nameche, described in a January 2014 email as MC2’s controller7; Abi Schwinck, a booker38
In Epstein’s financial recordsNamed beneficiary of a November 2012 domestic wire and of at least three further wires from Epstein accounts between December 2013 and January 2014 (see Jean-Luc Brunel for the fuller payment timeline)91011

MC2 Model Management is a modelling agency that appears in the released files not merely as a name in someone else’s signature block but as an institution that corresponded, invoiced, banked and made decisions about its own models. It is named in the release under several forms: “MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC,” “MC2 Model Mgt DBA Karin Models,” “MC2 Model Management USA,” “MC2 Models Management,” and “MC2 Model Management-NY.” Its own web domain is rendered inconsistently across the documents, too: Jean-Luc Brunel’s own address is [email protected], while staff signatures and its New York invoicing system give mc2mm.com, and OCR renders the same address elsewhere as “MC2modcls.com.”1254 A certified court reporter transcribing a 2010 deposition rendered the company’s name phonetically as “MC Square.”13 This page covers the agency’s own record (its formation, its offices and banking, the staff who acted in its name, and the decisions it made about the models it represented), and cross-references Jean-Luc Brunel’s page rather than repeating his biography, and Elite Model Management’s page for the comparison the two agencies’ records invite.

Formation and the company name

In a 2015 amended verified complaint against Epstein, Brunel described himself as “the owner of Plaintiff modeling agency known as ‘MC2 Model & Talent Miami’” and pleaded that it “began operations in October 2005 and has offices in New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv.”1 A March 2006 immigration and customs database printout in the investigative file lists “MC2 MODEL MGT DBA KARIN MODELS” of New York as the petitioner on a non-immigrant worker petition valid from December 9, 2005.2

A message pad recovered from Epstein’s Palm Beach residence during the 2005 search of it was reviewed by Palm Beach Police “for evidentiary purposes” and later produced as a civil-suit exhibit; one entry on it bears on the company’s naming rather than its start date.14 In a March 19, 2010 deposition in Jane Doe No. 2 v. Jeffrey Epstein, Detective Joseph Recarey of the Palm Beach Police Department was shown that entry, marked as an exhibit, and testified that it purported to be from “Jean Luc” and read, in full: “It says LC2models.com; MC2models.com was already taken.”13 Recarey said he believed MC2 was “the modeling agency” Jean Luc worked with, but said he did not know why the name “MC2” was chosen and did not know whether Epstein and Brunel were partners in operating it.13 The excerpt read into the record does not give this particular entry its own date, though the exhibits immediately before and after it, also messages recovered from the same pad, are dated December 9 and December 14, 2004; if the domain-name entry falls in the same period, that would place it well before the October 2005 start date in Brunel’s own pleading, though this page does not assert that it does.13 Recarey was also asked whether he had heard the phrase “E equal MC2” before and said he had; the excerpt does not record any further explanation of it.13

Offices and banking

MC2’s own staff made and documented at least one concrete decision about the agency’s banking: on January 21, 2014, Jeff Fuller told Richard Kahn of HBRK Associates (Epstein’s accountant) that “Dominique will send you our reserve account at TD as we had a security breach on the last one you sent it to…same bank different account number,” and Dominique Nameche, identifying herself as being with “MC2 Models Management,” supplied the new account information and coordinated the transfer and a follow-up check by fedex over the following days.7 The correspondence recording that decision runs from November 2012 into early 2014 and records recurring payments Kahn described as “this same transaction,” including a further $25,000 wire to the same TD Bank account on the same date; a December 2013 message in the same thread has Kahn asking Fuller to confirm the bank details on file, without reproducing the account number here.10 These payments correspond to wires the same office recorded elsewhere as reaching “MC2 Model Management” on December 4 and 10, 2013 and January 21, 2014; see Jean-Luc Brunel for that fuller timeline and its Deutsche Bank source.11

The same correspondence also fixes MC2’s own addresses, inconsistently, across the record it kept: Fuller’s signature block on a December 2013 email to Kahn gives “MC2 Model Management, 6 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011” and “1674 Alton Rd., Suite 500, Miami, FL 33139,” with the web address “www.mc2mm.com.”4 Abi Schwinck’s signature on 2011–2012 correspondence gives the same New York street address and floor.38 An internal “Event Report” from the agency’s Modelwire booking system, generated in March 2012, carries a footer reading “MC2 MODEL MANAGEMENT-NY, 6 West 14th Street, 3rd floor • NEW YORK, NY 10011 • U.S.A.,” with a listed phone and fax and the web address “www.mc2mm.com,” one floor different from the correspondence.5 Neither this page nor the documents it draws on resolves the discrepancy.

A J.P. Morgan funds-transfer request dated November 16, 2012, records a $25,000 domestic wire debited from an account titled “Jeffrey E Epstein,” naming “MC2 Model Management” as beneficiary, routed via TD Bank, with an address of “90 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011” entered on the form beside the beneficiary fields.9 A JPMorgan Chase statement for Epstein’s account for the same month independently records the same transaction: “Fedwire Debit Via: TD Bank, NA/026013673 A/C: Mc2 Model Management 90 Fifth Avenue New York NY.”15 This is a different New York address again from the one on Fuller’s and Schwinck’s letterhead.

Agency staff as Epstein’s correspondents

MC2’s staff conducted the agency’s actual business, booking models and confirming shoots, from company e-mail addresses that also reached Epstein directly, and its own booking system recorded the placements its staff arranged. On May 24, 2012, Abi Schwinck e-mailed a model represented by the agency (not named on this page) to confirm a booking with a named photographer the next morning, writing “Don’t be late! Call me with any issues,” and copying Brunel, who replied “Thanks.”8 Two days earlier Schwinck had asked the same model, “Are you free this week and or weekend to shoot?”8 The March 2012 Modelwire event report, generated by Dominique Nameche, records that same kind of decision at scale: it lists more than a dozen paid modelling jobs the agency’s staff arranged for a model represented by the agency (not named on this page) between September 2011 and February 2012, with clients, locations, voucher amounts and the initials or first names of the bookers who arranged each one: Abi Schwinck on several, and others identified only as “Fred,” “Pink” and “Eric.”5

Some of that same staff correspondence went to Epstein personally rather than only to clients or models. On June 28, 2011, Schwinck e-mailed a recipient whose name is redacted, copying Epstein, under a redacted subject line, attaching nine photographs and writing: “Here are some of the pics from the shoot with Ibra- we have the high res on file! Let me know what you think!” Her signature read “Abi Schwinck, Mc2 Model Management NY, 6 West 14th St. 2nd Floor, NY NY 10011.”3 Epstein forwarded the same message to a different, also-redacted correspondent the next day.16 “Pink,” one of the bookers named in the Modelwire report, also appears as a staff e-mail alias, [email protected], on a 2010 internal forward alongside [email protected] and [email protected].17

Decisions about models

On March 19, 2015, Fuller wrote to Kahn: “I am on vacation and back on the 30th. Jean Luc no longer wants to sponsor [name redacted] in light of recent circumstances. At least she has time to find another agency or make alternative plans. I am sorry.”6 The document does not say what the “recent circumstances” were, and the model’s name is redacted in the copy read for this page; the “sponsor” language is consistent with the agency’s role, recorded independently in the 2006 immigration petition record above, as a petitioner sponsoring models’ U.S. work authorization.62

On January 13, 2014, a correspondent whose name and e-mail address are redacted wrote to Epstein: “I have just received email from Jean Luc assistent. There is the contract with MC2 model management. I shouldn’t sign it while I’m officialy still with ONE Management. They have also send me drafts for recommendation letters. Is Jean Luc going to collect the draft letters for me? I think that was just general email they send to all models they work with.”18 No reply, and no further message in this thread, was found in the release. The correspondent’s identity is not established here and is not supplied; ONE Management, a separate modelling agency, is named because it is her business affiliation as she states it, not an attribute this page is assigning her.

Brunel’s 2015 lawsuit: the agency’s network responds to press

Brunel and MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC sued Epstein in Miami-Dade County in 2014; see Jean-Luc Brunel for the suit’s procedural history and its dismissal on appeal. The amended complaint’s exhibits, filed by Brunel to support his own claim that press coverage had cost the agency business, are a documented record of how a network of other agencies and scouts described MC2 by name in 2014, and are read here for what they show about the agency rather than to adjudicate Brunel’s claim.

  • Exhibit B, October 15, 2014: Jolanta Sadauskiene, owner of the Lithuanian agency Modilinos, wrote to Brunel that a placement she had arranged with MC2 in New York and Miami fell through because the model (not named on this page) “found some article in Internet … which changed her position and she preferred to be placed with another agency.”19
  • Exhibit C, October 17, 2014: Vladimir Yudashkin, identifying himself as a director of “MotherAgency,” wrote to Brunel that a model he represented (not named on this page) “rejected signing the contract with MC2 in United Sates,” explaining that she had “came across that article in intemet about you involved in illegal activities with young models” and “made the decision to don’t put her self in risk.”20
  • Exhibit D, October 17, 2014: Manuela Martinez of the Brazilian agency Mega Partners wrote to Brunel, under the subject line “MC2”: “I don’t need to remind you that the sex trafficking allegations have stopped us from working with your agency for the past 5-6 years — but as Vinicius is my friend, I will try to find a girl that already knows and trusts him to place with you.”21
  • Exhibit E, August 27, 2010: an internal MC2 forward to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] carries a press inquiry from Michelle Stockman of Agence France-Presse, asking to be put in touch with “a model of color and a casting director” for a story on trends in casting.17 The complaint’s own paragraph 15 describes this exhibit differently, saying Stockman “wanted to meet with Plaintiff Brunel to arrange a model shoot with MC2” and that Brunel “was forced to forego (and lose) this business opportunity”; the exhibit itself does not mention arranging any shoot.22
  • Exhibit F, December 12, 2014: Michael Sanka, a scout, wrote to Brunel: “parents don’t want their daughters to come to us, because when they google your name and the agency name the only things they see is ‘Sex Trafficking’!!! It’s impossible to sign a new girl and if nothing it’s done i can tell you that in 3 months we we will not get any new girls and i don’t see how the agency will work without new faces.”23
  • Exhibit G, undated in the copy read for this page: Sandra Petkanic of Fox Fashion Agency, on letterhead giving a Belgrade address, wrote to Brunel that when prospective models’ parents searched online they “saw all the bad articles about sex trafficking, they were scared and I was myself speechless since we know that it’s not true but it was hard for us to explain to the parents,” and that as a result “we can’t place any new faces with you because the parents will refuse and it makes us look bad to propose the girls to your agency,” adding that “you really need to clarify everything, till then we will have to cease any collaboration and we will have to refuse to let you represent any of our models.”24
  • Exhibits H-1 and H-2: a deposition transcript of a former MC2 employee the complaint describes as “a former financial controller” was filed to support paragraph 23’s claim that she “stated in a 2012 deposition that Plaintiff Brunel had never done anything inappropriate or illegal with any under-age model.”25 In the excerpt filed, the witness testified under oath that no model, minor or otherwise, had ever told her anything indicating Brunel behaved inappropriately with her, while separately invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege on a question about her own residency and on a question whether she had personally seen any minor model go with Brunel to Epstein’s home.26
  • The same complaint, at paragraph 24, alleges, in Brunel’s own, uncorroborated words, that this same former employee “was fired from her job at Plaintiff MC2 for embezzling company funds, and had criminal charges filed against her,” and that she “was also the source of the false information linking Plaintiffs to sex trafficking” reported by Jezebel.27 Paragraph 24 cites two exhibits for these claims: a Composite Exhibit I, and pages 2–7 of Composite Exhibit A, the complaint’s press-clippings composite. This page does not reproduce either. The former employee is not named on this page.
  • Immediately following, in paragraph 25, Brunel’s own complaint states: “The deposition testimony of [name redacted] referred to above clearly demonstrates that Plaintiff Brunel has clean hands and was never involved in sex trafficking. All of Plaintiffs’ damages came solely from Epstein’s conduct.”28
  • Brunel separately pleaded that Elite Paris severed a business relationship with MC2 for fear of being linked to Epstein; see Elite Model Management for that allegation and its context, which this page does not repeat.

Comparison with Elite Model Management

The two agencies appear very differently in the release. No document read for the Elite Model Management page records Elite, its parent company or any of its officers corresponding with Epstein in Elite’s own name; Elite reaches his mailbox only through third parties’ signature blocks and mentions of its scouting competition, and the one specific claim that Elite acted on the Epstein connection, that Elite Paris severed ties with MC2, is Brunel’s own allegation, with no reply from Elite in the record. MC2, by contrast, is documented here as a first-party actor under its own name: its staff (Fuller, Nameche, Schwinck) e-mailed Epstein and his accountant directly from the company’s own address, its bank account received wires naming it as beneficiary, its principal’s own litigation names a network of five outside agencies and scouts (Modilinos, “MotherAgency,” Mega Partners, Michael Sanka and Fox) that describe MC2 by name in terms of sex-trafficking allegations, and at least one of its own former employees was deposed specifically about what she knew of Brunel’s conduct. Appearing in these documents, including in the allegations of others, is not evidence of wrongdoing by MC2 or by any person named on this page.

Coverage

No news coverage is cited on this page; the record here is drawn from litigation exhibits, a deposition transcript, e-mail correspondence and banking records in the release. See Jean-Luc Brunel’s Coverage section for press coverage of MC2 and Brunel together.

Footnotes

  1. Jean-Luc Brunel and MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC v. Jeffrey Epstein, Tyler McDonald, and Tyler McDonald d/b/a Yi.Org, Civil Action No. 14-21348 CA 01, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County, Fla., Amended Verified Complaint e-filed Jan. 26, 2015. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 pp.5–9. ↩ ↩2

  2. USCIS CLAIMS petition record for “MC2 MODEL MGT DBA KARIN MODELS,” receipt EAC0604952681, in a March 2, 2006 immigration and customs database printout in the investigative file. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01683110 p.62. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Email, Abi Schwinck to a redacted recipient, cc Jeffrey Epstein, Jun. 28, 2011. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00914168 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. Email, Jeff Fuller, “MC2 Model Management,” to Richard Kahn, Dec. 4, 2013, forwarded within the same thread. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01938180 p.5. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. MC2 Model Management-NY, Modelwire “Event Report,” generated by Dominique Nameche, Mar. 29, 2012, listing bookings Sept. 2011–Feb. 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01735028 pp.1–4. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. Email, Richard Kahn forwarding Jeff Fuller to Jeffrey Epstein, Mar. 19, 2015. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00645699 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Same thread, Jan. 21–22, 2014, including Nameche’s signature “MC2 Models Management, Controller.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01938180 pp.2–4. ↩ ↩2

  8. Email chain, Abi Schwinck to a model represented by the agency, cc Jean Luc Brunel, May 22–24, 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00936144 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. J.P. Morgan Funds Transfer Request, Nov. 16, 2012, debiting the account of “Jeffrey E Epstein,” naming “MC2 Model Management” as beneficiary via TD Bank; account and routing numbers are redacted in this copy and are not reproduced here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01580480 ↩ ↩2

  10. Email thread among Richard Kahn, Jeff Fuller and Dominique Nameche, Nov. 13, 2012 – Jan. 28, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01938180 pp.1–7. ↩ ↩2

  11. Deutsche Bank, “Presentation to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,” Sept. 12, 2019, Exhibit N. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01681865 p.29. See also Jean-Luc Brunel. ↩ ↩2

  12. Email, Jean Luc Brunel [email protected] to Jeffrey Epstein, Feb. 25, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01934045 ↩

  13. Same deposition, p.24. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00298293 p.24. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  14. Jane Doe No. 2 v. Jeffrey Epstein, Case 08-CIV-80119-MARRA/JOHNSON, S.D. Fla., Deposition of Detective Joseph Recarey, Vol. II, Mar. 19, 2010, p.23 (message pads “taken from Mr. Epstein’s home during the search warrant,” reviewed “for evidentiary purposes”). https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00298293 p.23. ↩

  15. JPMorgan Chase statement, “JEFFREY E EPSTEIN,” transaction detail for the period Nov. 1–30, 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01528277 p.7. ↩

  16. Email, Jeffrey Epstein forwarding the above to a different redacted recipient, Jun. 29, 2011. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00913861 p.1. ↩

  17. Internal forward, “Lorraine” [email protected] to [email protected], Jean Luc Brunel [email protected] and Pink [email protected], Aug. 27, 2010, carrying a press inquiry from Michelle Stockman of Agence France-Presse; filed as Exhibit E to the amended complaint. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.55. ↩ ↩2

  18. Email to Jeffrey Epstein from a correspondent whose name is redacted, Jan. 13, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00676838 p.1. ↩

  19. Amended complaint, Exhibit B, email from Jolanta Sadauskiene of Modilinos to Jean Luc Brunel, Oct. 15, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.52. ↩

  20. Same complaint, Exhibit C, email from Vladimir Yudashkin, “MotherAgency,” to Jean Luc Brunel, Oct. 17, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.53. ↩

  21. Same complaint, Exhibit D, email from Manuela Martinez of Mega Partners to Jean Luc Brunel, Oct. 17, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.54. ↩

  22. Same complaint, paragraph 15. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.8. ↩

  23. Same complaint, Exhibit F, email from Michael Sanka to Jean Luc Brunel, Dec. 12, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.57. ↩

  24. Same complaint, Exhibit G, email from Sandra Petkanic of Fox Fashion Agency to Jean Luc Brunel. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.58. ↩

  25. Same complaint, paragraph 23. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.9. ↩

  26. Same complaint, Exhibits H-1 and H-2, deposition transcript excerpt. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 pp.59–60. ↩

  27. Same complaint, paragraph 24. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.9. ↩

  28. Same complaint, paragraph 25. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00599855 p.10. ↩

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