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The residence of model agent Daniel Siad near Paris. | Credit: Xavier Galiana \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
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French professional model recruiter Daniel Siad, who introduced Jeffrey Epstein to young women and teenage girls, was found dead in his home near Paris, French prosecutors said Wednesday. Siad’s name “appears more than 2,000 times” in the Justice Department’s Epstein files, which also document the deceased Epstein<\/a> paying him “tens of thousands of dollars,” CNN<\/a> said.<\/p>\n Who said what<\/p>\n Siad, 69, had been the “subject of special investigative techniques,” including phone taps, as part of an ongoing investigation of Epstein-related human trafficking<\/a> and tax fraud, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement. But nothing had “produced evidence justifying his immediate arrest.”<\/p>\n The Epstein files exposed not only the sex offender’s “cozy relationships with high-profile and powerful” people, The Washington Post<\/a> said, but also a “network of lesser-known associates \u2014 including those from the modeling industry \u2014 who offered to bring women into his orbit,” often via “crude and sexualized” emails in which the “purpose of the introduction was not explicitly stated.” Siad is the “second man publicly linked to Epstein who has died in France,” Reuters<\/a> said, after modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was “found hanged in his prison cell in 2022.”<\/p>\n What next?<\/p>\n Siad died of a heart attack, his lawyer M\u00e9nya Arab-Tigrine told Reuters, though “we must await the autopsy results to confirm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35167,11931,11621,35581,447,30,35579,35580],"class_list":["post-56030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-daniel-siad","tag-epstein-files","tag-french-prosecutors","tag-investigative-techniques","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-paris","tag-professional-model","tag-xavier-galiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030","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=56030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}