Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old Paris modeling scout whose name appears over 2,000 times in the DOJ's Epstein files, was found dead at his home in Colombes, France on Monday. Just a few weeks earlier, he'd sat for an interview with CNN to try to clean up his reputation after being linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
Marie-Celine Lawrysz, the deputy public prosecutor at Nanterre, confirmed the death on Wednesday. There were no immediate details on the cause. Siad had faced accusations from at least five women, with the first criminal complaint filed against him in February 2022. DOJ files show Jeffrey Epstein paid Siad tens of thousands of dollars , to help him procure young teenage girls. Their correspondences referenced pulling girls as young as 15, 16, and 17 years old for the New York financier.
Siad's lawyer told Reuters that "Daniel Siad never stopped proclaiming his innocence." That's a quote his lawyer can now repeat indefinitely, because nobody's going to cross-examine a dead man.
One of his accusers, a former Swedish model named Ebba Karlsson told reporters he was "very close to being arrested" before his death.
Here's what we know for sure...Epstein himself was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. Jean-Luc Brunel, another French modeling agent in Epstein's network, was found dead in La Sante prison in Paris in February 2022. Mark Middleton, the Clinton special assistant who signed Epstein into the White House, was found dead in Arkansas in May 2022. Virginia Giuffre, Epstein's most prominent accuser — who had testified against Brunel in Paris in 2021 and settled with Prince Andrew — died in Western Australia in April 2025 at the age of 41. Sixteen academics petitioned for a public inquest into her death.
Now Siad. Found dead at home. Weeks after a CNN interview in which he tried to distance himself from Epstein's grossest behaviors.
The CNN piece had included quotes from a woman identified as "Juliette G.," a former model, who described Siad's hold over young women in the industry. "He was such a powerful person," she said. "And how can I not trust him?" That interview ran in mid-June 2026. By July 22, the powerful person was no longer available for follow-up questions.
The people who want us to stop asking questions about this network have a convenient habit of pointing to each death individually. Epstein? Suicide. Brunel? Suicide. Middleton? Ruled a suicide. Giuffre? Natural causes, they say, at 41. And now Siad — cause of death not yet disclosed, but we're sure the explanation will be perfectly satisfying.
One is a tragedy. Two is a coincidence. Five is a exposed pattern that would get a RICO investigation opened if the subjects were connected to anyone other than Jeffrey Epstein.