Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin acted as a point of contact for a firm owned by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most infamous associates and alleged procurer Jean-Luc Brunel, a report claims.

Mnuchin is named in documents for Next Management Corporation, formed in 1988 by model-industry bosses Jean-Luc and his brother Arnaud Brunel, The Daily Beast reported.

At the time Brunel was the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary accusing him of drugging and raping models. Nearly 30 years later, the latest accusation against Brunel is that he flew 12-year-old French triplets to Epstein so he could abuse them.

A Treasury Department official said Mnuchin wasn't aware he was listed as the company official who files registration papers and receives lawsuits and official documents.

'Secretary Mnuchin never served in any official capacity in Next Management Corporation, never did any business with nor knows either of the Brunel brothers, and never had any ownership stake in Next Management Corporation or any related entities,' spokeswoman Monica Crowley said.

'Secretary Mnuchin had no knowledge whatsoever that he was listed as a point of contact—at an address he’s not familiar with—for a company that he’s had no dealings with. That listing was clearly an error.'

US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin is understood to have been named as the point of contact for a firm owned by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most infamous associates and alleged procurer Jean-Luc Brunel, a report claims

However, Mnuchin's office did tell The Daily Beast he was a close friend of Faith Kates, the President and co-founder of Next modelling agency.

The Brunel brothers invested in Kates' modelling agency, founded in 1989, through their separate entity called Next Management Corporation.

But Kates claimed she had no involvement with that company.

'Ms. Kates was never involved with Next Management Corp. in any way,' a spokesperson told The Daily Beast.

'Given that, she never designated anyone, including Sec. Mnuchin, to be a DOS process or any officer or director of Next Management Corp.'

Mnuchin has been friends with Faith Kate, President of Next modelling agency - she reportedly received donations from Epstein

They claimed Kates had broken off contact with the Brunels over a dispute decades ago, in which Kates' agency had sued Next Management Corporation for 'raiding' her agency.

However, it has previously been reported that Kates was in contact with their mutual friend Epstein in recent years. He is understood to have regularly swung by Kates' New York office and made substantial donations.

Epstein's ties to the fashion world have come under increasing scrutiny and Brunel - whose whereabouts are unknown - is said to have provided access to underage girls on his modelling books.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims she was recruited to be Epstein's 'sex slave,' made the claims in a recently unsealed civil suit filed by the Miami US attorney's office in 2015.

Roberts claimed young French girls, believed to be sisters, were a gift from Brunel to Epstein.

'Jeffrey bragged after he met them that they were 12-year-olds and flown over from France because they're really poor over there, and their parents needed the money or whatever the case is and they were absolutely free to stay and flew out,' Giuffre said.

Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last month while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges

Jean-Luc Brunel with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, both are alleged to have procured underage girls for the deceased pedophile

She said she saw the three girls with her own eyes and that Epstein had repeatedly described to her how the girls had massaged him and performed oral sex on him. They were flown back to France the next day.

'He was so excited about the entire event, replayed over and over again over the next course of weeks how cute they were and how you could tell they were really young,' she said.

'He went on to tell me how Brunel bought them in Paris from their parents, offering them the usual sums of money, visas, and modeling career prospects.

'Laughing the whole way through, Jeffrey thought it was absolutely brilliant how easily money seduced all walks of life, nothing or no one that couldn't be bought.'

Another civil suit also involving Giuffre alleges that Brunel and Epstein recruited young girls from South America and Eastern Europe to have sex with him.

Epstein invested $1million to help launch Brunel's Miami-based modeling firm MC2, in return for a 'supply of girls on tap', the suit claims.

Brunel allegedly acquired illegitimate visas for underage girls from foreign countries and Epstein housed them at his brother's apartment in Manhattan.

The lawsuit filed by the Miami US attorney's office in 2015 claims that the French girls were a gift from Epstein's longtime acquaintance and frequent guest Jean-Luc Brunel (pictured)

'Jeffrey and Brunel would charge them for rent, forcing them to work for them selling their bodies for money, nude pictures, and even pornography,' Giuffre said in the suit.

'These were what seemed like really nice people with not so nice intentions setting an impression of how the dignified wealth play and behind closed doors they had as much civilized manners as a barbaric chimpanzee in heat.

'Giving a girl a step up in finances by teaching them their only worth is what lay between their legs, us girls all were the same in the end, regardless of what country we come from, what language we spoke or our cultural differences, we were all being used for one thing alone, our youthful looks and beautiful bodies.'

Epstein was arrested last month on federal charges of orchestrating a sex trafficking ring and abusing dozens of underage girls, whom he paid hundreds of dollars in cash for massages.

He was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10 after having pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Epstein's death came 24 hours after more than 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls were unsealed.

Three former MC2 models told The Guardian they were sexually assaulted by Brunel in and nearby Paris throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Giuffre's bombshell allegations were detailed in a 2015 lawsuit against one of Epstein's alleged accomplices, longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is pictured with him in 2005

Allegations of misconduct against the French model scout, 72, date back decades. He has never faced any legal action but is now back in the headlines as attention turns to friends of the deceased millionaire sex offender.

In 2015, Brunel denied involvement 'directly or indirectly' in Epstein's crimes, telling the Guardian: 'I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work as a scouter or model agencies manager.'

MC2 also denied any connection to Epstein's crimes and previously said Brunel no longer actively worked with the firm, despite the scout saying he still owned it in a 2015 legal case, which remains open.

Brunel firmly established himself as one of the fashion industry's top players in the 1980s while working as a scout for Karin Models in Paris.

He claims to have launched the careers of some of the era's most popular models, including Jerry Hall, Angie Everhart and Christy Turlington.

Famed for his lively parties, it was at one such evening in September 1991 that Thysia Huisman, then aged 18, began feeling lightheaded after being given a drink by Brunel.

The Dutch model, who was staying at Brunel's apartment near the Karin headquarters, claims the scout took her to his bedroom and raped her.

A second former model, now 55, from America, spoke anonymously to the Guardian to allege that Brunel assaulted her outside Paris after scouting her in 1984.

She recalled being alone with him on a night out after he falsely told her they were going to meet other people.

She said he aggressively groped her before she was able to climb out a window and away from him.

A third model, Courtney Soerensen of Stoneboro, Pennsylvania, met Brunel in Paris when she was 19 in 1988.

She alleged that Brunel subjected her to several incidents of unwanted touching, hounded her for sex and ruined her career when she rejected him.