The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

Breaking: Another Epstein recruiter found dead in France

Daniel Siad had been mentioned in the Epstein files more than 2,000 times

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Julie k Brown
Jul 22, 2026
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A Swedish-French modeling scout who recruited women for sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and was tied to a German woman who disappeared 11 years ago — has been found dead in France.

Daniel Siad – who was listed thousands of times in the Department of Justice’s Epstein files – was found dead in his home in Colombes, west of Paris, on Monday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

His cause of death is under investigation.

"He is dead and he was innocent," Siad’s lawyer, Menya Arab-Tigrine, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "If he died of a heart attack, the unbearable waiting, the pressure and the anxiety he suffered every day will have had something to do with it.”

Siad, 69, is just the latest death connected to Epstein, the New York moneyman who died under suspicious circumstances in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. The Manhattan medical examiner ruled Epstein’s Aug. 10, 2019 death a suicide by hanging, but a forensic pathologist hired by his brother who attended the autopsy believes his death was a possible homicide. Epstein, 66, had been awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.

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