‘Really a lot of amazing beauty’: emails show how model scout connected Epstein with young women | Jeffrey Epstein

“IIn a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in July 2014, model scout Daniel Siad described the frustrations of his work scouring the world for future models.

In this opinion, disclosed in the last part of the US Department of Justice documents, Siad was upset that Epstein could not attend the planned meeting.

“I had 2 daughters from Sweden, 1 Slovak, 2 French and [redacted] The Russian you are talking to and a beautiful Chinese named [redacted]” he wrote. Epstein tried to reassure him, writing: “Of course I will reimburse you for any expenses.”

Analysis of correspondence between Epstein and one of his fixers reveals constant work to arrange appointments with young women in the decade after he was released from prison on charges of procuring a child for prostitution.

On this occasion, Siad was eager to avoid falling out with Epstein and noted: “I wanted to give you a big surprise.” He was happy to say that a recent trip to Scandinavia was very productive: At least five of the girls he met were only 16 or 17, and there was a 15-year-old French girl whose parents were pleased that she had started modeling. “There are millions of them out there,” he wrote.

The modeling industry was a useful way for Epstein to meet young women, and he was constantly involved in the low-level work of finding new faces, while also developing friendships with the industry’s top brass.

The files show that Siad was one of Epstein’s most loyal reporters, remaining in regular contact with the financier until months before his death and apparently receiving wire payments from Epstein in lieu of expenses incurred.

For a decade, she regularly wrote updates on the progress of her exploratory visits to villages in eastern Europe, islands in Sweden, and central Havana, where she also stalked young women available for Epstein to meet.

Although little known outside the modeling world, Siad was well-connected. For more than forty years he worked as a scout on the commission of Jean-Luc Brunel, a leading agent in Paris, New York and Miami, and was also a scout for the Elite’s former boss, Gérald Marie.

Epstein also worked closely with Brunel. In the early 2000s, Brunel financially backed MC2 Model Management when it started and remained involved for years.

Brunel killed himself in prison in February 2022, having spent 14 months in custody awaiting trial on charges of raping and sexually abusing minors, as well as any involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking.

Siad’s emails encouraged Epstein to reach out to inquire about his new discoveries. “Call me if you have time. I’m in Barcelona. With great beauty,” he wrote in November 2016. The following year he was contacted from Morocco. “There are so many truly incredible beautiful things!” he wrote. “And very polite.”

Siad appears in more than 1,000 documents in the latest set of declassified files. The emails offer an insight into the intensity of the work that went into arranging meetings between Epstein and aspiring models.

“Slovakia is the place to be,” Siad wrote to Epstein in 2009, noting that there were 45 women there to see. He told Epstein he planned to spend his summer “exploring small villages” in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. Later that day, Epstein asked: “How much$?”.

Siad stated that his expenses will not be less than 4,000 Euros and said, “I need to invite the parents for lunch or to the cafe. There are some girls waiting for me, just like in Poland, so I need to give them some money.” he wrote. “I’ll give you a big surprise when you come to Paris,” he promised.

Many emails included brief questions from Epstein. “What about the new girls?”, “Any news?”, “Is there anything worth coming to Paris for?” Siad sent messages. or “Are there any interesting women?” Women were often referred to by their nationality rather than their names. “I’m in New York, is the Swedish girl here?” Epstein asked Said in June 2014.

Siad said he supplied women to Epstein for legitimate model casting sessions in Paris. “He had a large flat where he organized all the meetings, including casting, for the models I recruited for Victoria’s Secret and MC2,” she said in an emailed statement to the Guardian. “The casting time would not take more than 10 minutes. I would always leave the models immediately.”

Ebba Karlsson claims that Siad discovered her in his hometown of Stockholm, Sweden, in 1990, when she was a 20-year-old model. He says he took her to France and raped her. He spent the last 30 years trying to find him, but Siad later went by a different name. Only now was he finally able to identify her after seeing a photograph of her in the latest installment of the Epstein files.

Karlsson, who had no personal interaction with Epstein, told the Guardian that his experience had always felt there was “something bigger than me”, which is why he has spent much of the last decade campaigning against the abuse of models in the industry.

“It had something to do with the way the work was done, the people he did it for. [Siad] He knew… he threatened to kill me and told me he knew the police chief in Paris. It’s easy to think you’re no one, but now I know it’s part of something bigger. “I was relieved that my intuition was correct,” he said.

Earlier this month, Karlsson made allegations of rape and human trafficking against Siad in Paris. Siad denied Karlsson’s claims. His lawyer in Paris, Ménya Arab-Tigrine, said Siad did not know Karlsson. “He is 69 and has no previous convictions,” she said, adding that the statute of limitations had expired because the accused dated from 36 years ago.

Last week, Le Parisien reported that a woman it named Malika told French police in 2022 that Siad had supplied women to Epstein for sexual purposes. She said Siad approached her on a Paris street in 2013, when she was 23, suggested she could become a model and also offered to introduce her to a powerful financier from New York.

She said she was introduced to him at Epstein’s apartment in Paris a few days later, and that he hired her as a masseuse. The woman claimed Siad then told her she needed to recruit more girls for Epstein. The woman said in an interview with Le Parisien that the French police did not take any action.

Siad’s lawyer said he had not met Epstein. “The worst thing about these files is that she and Epstein speak in a language that we as women do not like,” Arab-Tigrine said. “There is no evidence of any wrongdoing. He was working as a model scout and sending women’s details to Epstein.”

Siad told France TV this month that he was only working as a sample scout, that Epstein had abused his trust and that he was “not in a position to know that this man was dangerous.”

“Over time, it becomes clear that this person committed atrocities; thankfully, I never introduced him to a minor or minor who was abused. I have nothing to blame myself for,” he said in comments broadcast on French television.

The files show that the FBI was briefed on Siad’s work for Epstein in 2016. This month, French prosecutors announced they had formed a team of judges to analyze evidence in files implicating a number of French citizens, including Brunel.

Siad, who described himself as French-born, Algerian-origin and Swedish citizen, defended in his response on French television that his relationships with the models he researched were purely professional. Several of her emails to Epstein mentioned plans to hold meetings with agents, but it’s unclear why Epstein had such a hands-on role in vetting prospective models when he had no official involvement with any modeling agency.

Siad’s emails reveal that Epstein was very demanding. In June 2011, Siad sent Epstein a photo of a 19-year-old woman, noting: “Measurement 80C – 60 – 90 1m74 Very nice girl.” Epstein responded two days later: “Not very interesting, sorry.”

Epstein sometimes responded with only a one-word response: “Age?” Siad liked to emphasize that the women he found for Epstein looked young. She wrote: “She is 26 but looks 18.” Or, describing a 20-year-old boy, he wrote: “So sweet and shy.”

Siad would occasionally warn Epstein, in characteristically bad spelling, that one of the girls he was recruiting had “a bit of a cranial attachment” or that they might need plastic surgery to make them more attractive.

In 2017, Siad had been contacted from Barcelona with news of a “very kind” woman whom he hoped to place with a modeling agency. Epstein asked for a full-body photo and replied: “He doesn’t look happy.” She later added: “She’s lovely, her breasts are awful. They’ll need to be redone.”

Epstein regularly approved payments to Siad’s accountants. In 2018, Epstein forwarded Siad’s bank information to his accountant and noted: “5-year loan of 25 thousand dollars.”

The job wasn’t always simple. In 2014, Siad claimed that his nose was broken by the father of a woman he was trying to model.

Epstein sometimes wished he had nothing to do with the women he was introduced to and would complain to Siad. In May 2014, Epstein emailed Siad: “[name is unredacted in the files] He texted me, I don’t want to talk to him, I will pay you back if you pay for his ticket back to Latvia.

Siad replied: “I’m taking care of it… I’ll figure it out, don’t worry.”