The Epstein fixer found dead in his Paris flat
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This is The Guardian. Today, yet another of Jeffrey Epstein's enablers dies without facing justice.
Throughout the 2000s, Jeffrey Epstein split his time living between his various luxury properties. a penthouse in New York, a private island in the Caribbean, a waterfront mansion in Palm Beach. Meanwhile, a small army of middlemen were fanned out across the world, scouting for young women to introduce to the billionaire. Daniel Siad was one of those middlemen, a model scout officially.
SIAD would regularly email Epstein from whichever country he was in. Sometimes it was Slovakia, sometimes it was the Czech Republic or Poland or Hungary, updating him on the work that he was doing. Amelia Gentleman is a senior reporter at The Guardian. And he gave very detailed summaries of who he'd met and why he thought Epstein might like them. He often wouldn't actually name any of the women, but he would give their nationalities, he'd give their ages, and he'd sometimes give their waist and bust measurements.
Siad and Epstein had first met in the early 2000s and stayed in touch for well over a decade. When Epstein was jailed for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14, back in 2008, some of his associates cut him off, but not Siad.
Siad often would try to emphasise that the women that he'd found for Epstein appeared very youthful or were indeed very youthful. On one occasion, he said he'd met a woman who was 26, but... looked 18 and on another occasion he told him he'd had a very successful visit to an Eastern European country where he'd met several women who were 15 or 16 who he said would be ready the following year to go into the industry.
Just months before Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, Siad was messaging him about new women he'd scouted. Then, suddenly, Epstein died in his prison cell. And Siad, never a public figure, faded into obscurity. Until a few months ago, when the Department of Justice in the US began releasing a huge trove of documents detailing years of correspondence between Epstein and his associates. And Syed's name appeared thousands of times. And he found himself entangled in the messy web of questions surrounding how Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and trafficking operation actually worked.
You were aware of what? His conviction for child sex.
Who was Daniel Siad and what do Epstein's files reveal about his role?
And, as of this year, he was under investigation himself.
Syed was accused both of human trafficking and also of rape. He was being investigated by France's central office for combating human trafficking.
He denied it all. And then, last week... A French model recruiter linked to Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home... Syed was found dead at a house on the outskirts of Paris from a heart attack, according to his lawyer. Syed was one of several French men accused of procuring women for Epstein and the second man who has died after being publicly linked to him. His death leaves behind a series of questions that will now go unanswered about Epstein's ring of enablers and about Syed's own alleged crimes. From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt. Today in Focus, another one gone as justice slips away from Epstein's survivors.
So in the late 80s, early 90s, I was in Stockholm, Sweden, where I grew up and where I lived.
This is Ebba Carlson. She first met Daniel Siad in the summer of 1990 when she was 20. But he introduced himself under a different name, Daniel Goldberg.
So we were outside in Kungsträdgården, which is like the big park in downtown Stockholm. And so I was there with my boyfriend and friends. And suddenly we're approached by this French guy who is a model scout. And he approaches me saying, do work as a model you would be perfect for this model shoot we're doing in Monaco and it was basically a one-way ticket so I was promised you know for a model a lot of money at the time so as I arrived in Nice on the Riviera French Riviera I took a bus and went to Monaco and And he never showed up. So I had a number and I called the number and said, I'm here. And he sounded really surprised, like, oh, really?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:04
2
Who was Daniel Siad and what do Epstein's files reveal about his role?
3:04–5:26
3
How did Daniel Siad communicate with Jeffrey Epstein and what details did he report?
5:26–16:40
4
What allegations and investigations were opened against Siad in France?
16:40–24:08
5
What is Ebba Karlsson's personal account of being approached by a model scout?
24:08–27:17