Siad traveled around the world, visiting villages in eastern Europe or flying to Cuba or Sweden, trying to source women to work in the modelling industry. Alongside searching for potential models, he looked for women whom he hoped Epstein might want to meet. He compared his work to fishing, explaining to Epstein in an email in 2014 that patience was required: “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache (sic) quick, some time no fish.”
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Siad was well connected in the modelling world and also worked as a scout on commission for Jean-Luc Brunel, who was the leading agent in Paris, New York and Miami for more than four decades. Brunel killed himself in prison in February 2022, after spending 14 months in custody awaiting trial on charges of rape of minors and sexual harassment...
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Siad’s regular emails supplied Epstein with details about the young women he was recruiting. “Slovakia is the place to be,” Siad wrote to Epstein in 2009, noting that he had 45 women to see there. He told Epstein that he planned to spend the summer “scouting small villages” in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. “I will make you a great surprise when you come to Paris,” he promised. He was still working for Epstein in 2016, writing: “Call me if you have time I am in Barcelona. With amazing Beauty.”
Epstein’s emails to Siad were very succinct, asking: “wht about new girls?”, “Any news”, “anything worth coming to paris for?” or “Any interesting women?” The women were often referred to by nationality rather than their names. “I am in ny, is the swedish girl here?” Epstein asked Said in June 2014. Sometimes, Epstein replied to Siad’s suggested candidates with just a one-word answer: “age?”. Siad liked to emphasise that the women he had found for Epstein appeared youthful, writing on one occasion: “26 but she look 18”.
The Paris prosecutor's office has defended an investigation it launched in February, saying there had been insufficient evidence to justify arresting Siad.
"The investigation opened on 18 February 2026 covering charges of organised human trafficking and conspiracy to commit a crime is continuing in order to identify all individuals potentially involved despite the termination of criminal proceedings against Daniel Siad," the office said.
"Daniel Siad was subject to special investigative techniques, notably telephone surveillance, but they did not provide enough evidence justifying his immediate arrest," it added.
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Epstein victim Anya - not her real name - previously told the BBC that Siad had introduced her to Epstein.
"It was a complete set-up," she said, describing Siad as "essentially a professional trafficker".
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Another former model who gave a deposition to police in June as part of the investigation into Siad told the BBC his death meant any information he might have had about Epstein was now lost.
"An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air, without there even having been a chance to recover the information Daniel Siad might have possessed, given that he was never questioned," she said.
"Too much time has been lost... and it is yet another way for the leads to go cold. I hope we won't have to wait another seven years to see his home searched, even though I think it is already too late."
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