Ghislaine Maxwell

French prosecutors say a modeling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell.

The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Financier and socialite Jeffrey Epstein was charged a year ago with procuring a girl for prostitution and died in his jail cell by apparent suicide in August.

Epstein killed himself in a federal detention center in New York last summer.