The American dream at the end of the scissors. Frédéric Fekkai arrived in the United States at the age of 20 in 1979 to become, years later, a famous hairdresser on the Hollywood scene. This Frenchman, best known across the Atlantic in the glittering world of American stars, finds himself today in the spotlight because of a very dark affair. His name is cited in court documents from a defamation complaint by Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein’s main accuser, published Wednesday after authorization from a New York judge. This is a file including nearly 180 names of contacts, acquaintances, relatives, alleged accomplices or victims of Epstein, who had sometimes been mentioned in the media.
Prince Andrew, Jean-Luc Brunel, Donald Trump… It is alongside names as famous as they are tarnished by the case of the child molester found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019 that we see that of Frédéric Fekkai appear. Until then, he was best known for having styled all of Hollywood, from Kim Basinger to Claudia Schiffer via Sigourney Weaver and even Hillary Clinton, reports the magazine in a profile devoted to the hairdresser. Side, which focuses on local news on the Côte d’Azur. But Frédéric Fekkai’s cell phone number appeared in Jeffrey Epstein’s “black book”.
From Aix-en-Provence to New York…
Frédéric Fekkai is originally from Provence but it is in New York that he goes to conquer the American cup scene. He opened his first salon in 1989, ten years after his exile, on the top floor of the luxurious Bergdorf Goodman department store, according to The Pathfinder, a site specializing in the profession. His career took off and he became the owner of “the most recognized hair salons in New York,” the site further states. Its trademark: a range of luxury hair care products based on natural products such as jojoba oil, argan oil, monoi…
The Provencal, now in his sixties, also opens salons in France. And even returns to Aix-en-Provence, his hometown, with a brand dedicated to luxury care, called Bastide“which celebrates the terroir and its know-how”, says the person concerned in an interview with the magazine Luxury.
…To the black book of Jeffrey Epstein
Frédéric Fekkai, who claims to be interested “in beauty in general” and “in knowing what makes a woman feel beautiful” was also interested in young girls, according to documents published by the American justice system. Jeffrey Epstein allegedly took several young girls to hairdressers’ salons. Furthermore, Johanna Sjoberg, another potential victim of the underage sex trafficking ring, claims to have heard Jeffrey Epstein say on the phone “Fekkai is in Hawaii. Can we find girls for him? »
In 2019, a spokesperson for the salon chain responded to the site The Daily Beast that Frédéric Fekkai “had never witnessed the deplorable conduct” of Jeffrey Epstein, but that he was “horrified” by the actions of the child molester.