Warning: This story contains graphic sexual descriptions.

"If I had disobeyed my mother and gone to New York, what might have happened to me?" asks Gláucia Fekete.

In 2004, as a 16-year-old living in the Brazilian countryside, she was taking her first steps in the modelling world.

She says French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel visited her family home, to persuade her mother to let her go to a modelling contest in Ecuador. He later killed himself in prison, accused of rape, sexual assault and recruiting girls for the late US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Back then, they didn't know who Brunel was; they had been introduced by a famous Brazilian scout.