Lukáš Houdek

Lukáš Houdek is a reporter at Heroine.cz. He has authored several award-winning projects, including the radio documentary White Carries Death, which earned him the 2019 Czech Journalism Award.

Sex trafficking tour of Prague: How Epstein’s fixer Brunel hunted for victims at Prague modelling contests
18 April 2026 by Karolína Kiripolská, Lukáš Houdek, Michaela Barcíková and Gabriela Knížková
Released Jeffrey Epstein files expose how associate Jean-Luc Brunel used Czech and Slovak modelling agencies to recruit and traffic underage girls. Brunel leveraged his industry prestige to lure victims into Epstein’s network, often using professional contracts as legal cover. He ultimately died by suicide in a Paris prison in 2022.
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[Interview] One of Epstein’s youngest survivors: ‘I was 14, and I hoped the money I earned from sex would repair my relationship with my mother’
17 March 2026 by Lukáš Houdek, Karolína Kiripolská, Michaela Barcíková and Gabriela Knížková
Marina Lacerda was born in Brazil. She was eight years old when she moved to the United States with her mother. She was fourteen when she first stepped inside the New York residence of serial sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.