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In 2001, one of the most sought after models in the world goes on a talk show. Karen Mulder frantically starts name dropping everyone who had either assaulted her or sold her to be assaulted. This list would include royalty, politicians, cops, and her own family. But before she’d be done, she’d be taken off the stage and eventually put into a psych ward paid for by the very person she claimed started selling her in the first place, her agent and owner of Elite Paris, the man who signed her at just 15 years old, Gerald Marie. He would be prosecuted years later with an insurmountable amount of rape and sexual assault claims, only for the case to be closed in 2023 due to France’s statute of limitations, which could have been avoided if anyone in the French courts had taken her seriously at the time she reported them because, yes, she did report them. And if that wasn’t enough, I have something even more infuriating.
One of the names she dropped during that talk show was Jean Luc Brunel. He was an Epstein associate who was found dead in his cell in 2022. He was jailed on suspicion of rape and trafficking of minors. Sorry. Hold on.
After Karen’s 2001 interview, numerous publications would come out claiming that she was going through a psychotic episode. Her parents would publicly blame this outburst on drugs, and her sister Saskia would go on that same talk show just to discredit her sister, which may sound surprising. But remember, part of her desperate plea for someone to listen and do something included the abuse she endured in her childhood. So it’s safe to say Saskia was also a victim. It’s complicated, but it fueled the media and it fueled the tabloids to call her crazy, and she tried to take her own life in 2002.
Thankfully, she survived and she’d returned to that same talk show to confront the host, heard this desperate plea, pulled her from air, and then deleted the tape. So the video of her speaking her truth would be scrapped altogether. The reason that we know this exists is because of his testimonies in the tabloids, hers, and audience members. Everyone called her crazy until the Epstein case started coming out. I read someone here on TikTok, a female influencer with a lot of followers, comment once on a video and say that human trafficking was like the new satanic pan. I remember it had a lot of likes, and I was so disturbed then, and I’m even more disturbed that comment lives in my head when I read the story because that interview could have saved twenty years of children. Twenty years. And to be put in a psych ward by the very man who first did it, who by the way was the ex husband of Linda Evangelista. Feel free to go down that rabbit hole. This isn’t satanic panic.
This is real. And the idea of it being satanic panic, like this huge, silly conspiracy everyone’s talking about is actually so destructive. And I feel like the desensitization that we have towards the Epstein files is becoming more and more rampant because when something is so devastating and so traumatizing and we’re not getting a conclusion, the go-to is to turn it into humor, which I do get. I’m not villainizing anyone for that. But if we’re gonna do that, we still have to keep this level of anger.
Karen is 55 years old now. She is still a person in this world. Her only mistake was not doing that interview on a live television show.