{"id":55411,"date":"2026-07-23T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/55411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:00:09","slug":"model-scout-for-jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-in-home-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/55411\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Scout For Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Home Near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Siad, 69, appeared in the Justice Department\u2019s Epstein files document dump more than 2,000 times <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A model scout who was accused of procuring models for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s international sex trafficking network was found dead near his home in Paris, French officials say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Siad, 69, was found dead in his home on Monday evening, according to French officials who added that his cause of death is currently unknown. He was among the targets of two investigations opened by Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, one into alleged human trafficking and the other into possible financial wrongdoing, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the Parisian prosecutor told reporters the inquiry had not garnered enough evidence to arrest Siad, but said her office had been contacted by 24 women who were victims or witnesses of incidents \u201clikely committed by Daniel Siad or others implicated.\u201d In one email <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/epstein\/files\/DataSet%209\/EFTA01209254.pdf\">exchange that included Woody Allen<\/a>, Siad sent photos of women or girls that included a lascivious comment about a sex act being \u201cbeginner friendly.\u201d In another Epstein orders Siad to take <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/epstein\/files\/DataSet%2010\/EFTA01621999.pdf\">\u201cfull body\u201d photos<\/a> of unnamed minors or women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siad is the second person connected to Mr. Epstein who has been found dead in France. In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/lawsuits\/jeffrey-epstein-pal-jean-luc-brunel-estate-being-sued-california-model-rape\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and Epstein associate<\/a> who had been charged with the rape of minors, was also found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/epstein-brunel-maxwell-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein with\u00a0convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and\u00a0French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel\" class=\"wp-image-21847\"  \/>Jeffrey Epstein with\u00a0convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and\u00a0French modeling scout Jean Luc BrunelCredit: (Courtesy US District Attorney\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, a California woman filed a lawsuit against Brunel\u2019s estate accusing his agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mc2models\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MC2 Model Management company<\/a>\u00a0of being bankrolled by admitted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using an alias \u201cbecause of the sensitive nature of the allegations of sexual abuse in the Complaint is a matter of the utmost intimacy,\u201d the woman says that she was 19 when Brunel began to abuse her. At one point, she says, she traveled with Brunel to his home in Canada where men tried to drug her and rape her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Siad, 69, appeared in the Justice Department\u2019s Epstein files document dump more than 2,000 times A model&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[514,11931,5,35253,490,447,30,35254],"class_list":["post-55411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-canada","tag-epstein-files","tag-france","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-jean-luc-brunel","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-paris","tag-woody-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}