Modelling scout linked to Epstein found dead in Paris
www.bbc.com
Daniel Siad, whose name appears in the Epstein files thousands of times, denied knowledge of the threat Jeffrey Epstein posed.
  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I see … so he wasnt killed, he was just found dead. Totally different things. Not that he didnt deserve it… he did. But he was certainly killed to protect someone else.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      so he wasnt killed, he was just found dead

      He was found dead. The cause of death is not yet determined, so it’s an open question whether he was killed or just died from some other cause.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    3 days ago

    Just because the US is not investigating, this does not mean other countries are not

    France is (until Le Pen gets elected)

    Keep an eye open for this as investigations proceed around the world

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    This asshole is also credibly linked to the disappearance of a German woman who also appears in the Epstein files – Siad offered her to Epstein – and then abruptly went missing in 2015 and is now presumed dead:

    Vlado, Michele’s father, says he once overheard his daughter on the phone with Siad and he confronted her: Who is this guy? “Michele said she worked for him as an escort,” Vlado recalls. Today, her mother believes that “Siad set Michele up with rich people who took advantage of her.” The fact that there is overlap between the modeling and escort worlds is an open secret in the industry. The Epstein documents reveal at least one modeling agency that offered him women from its roster. There are rumors of models being pushed into prostitution. Daniel Siad, too, appears to have blurred those lines. He promised women work as photo models – and possibly offered them up to wealthy men. That is apparently what happened with Michele and Jeffrey Epstein.

    As of the time of publication of that article, June 2026, there are over 2,000 mentions of Daniel Siad by name in the public Epstein files.

    Archive link – it has the English content but there are known problems with the site; use at your own discretion

  • disorderly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    3 days ago

    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”.

    During one email to Epstein released in the files, Siad wrote in badly spelled English: “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish.”

    It’s a god damned shame he died in his home instead of an interrogation room.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    Tate.

    Tate’s connected to a lawyer that’s connected to Melania Trump.

    The lawyer that’s connected to Tate, Melania, and Trump?

    Paolo Zampolli.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-matchmaker-paolo-zampolli-called-out-for-wild-partying-with-busted-manosphere-bros/

    Paolo helped get Trump in with models and beauty paegents, back in the 80s and 90s.

    Paolo’s recently ex-wife (Amanda Ungaro) was threatening to go public, about how she’d been trafficked, how Paolo has spent much of his life saying ‘no no, I introduced Trump and Melania, not Jeffery’, which is according to Amanda… a lie.

    Instead, she got throw into an ICE camp, and deported to Brazil.

    But she’s still alive, wealthy, and litigious.

    theory from here:

    Melania Trump… was an escort for Epstein.

    So was Amanda, apparently.

    That’s how and why Donald and her met.

    That’s why Melania did that weird, unprompted, public denial, a month or so back… Amanda popped back up, not detererred from her ICEscapade.

    … the wolves are in charge of the hen house, and Tate… knows too many of the wolves too well.

    He potentially has shit on Trump.

    So, some people need to die to make his shit less believable, substantiable, in case Tate sings.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Melania was more than Epstein’s whore, she was used to lure girls to Epstein as “models” from the most desperate parts of Eastern Europe.

      Far too much focus around Epstein has been on Trump. Melania Knavs had a much bigger role in human trafficking and she is terrified people will find out. This is why she had that bizarre press conference a few months ago because she was afraid of media connecting her with Zampolli and Ungaro. Lucky for her most media has been bought off and anyone who gets charged mysteriously dies before any trial.

      Melania Knavs is actually a worse person than Donald Trump.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        This is what I had suspected, but had not been able to … well enough substantiate that I would just asert it as true.

        That, yeah, basically, Melania acted in this ‘organization’ in a role similar to Ghislaine… she was one of the people who maybe at one point was a victim of this, but eventually basically became a ‘madame’, and entrapped many other girls and women into it all.

        Its the high class female version/strategy of what Andrew Tate does. You grab from the top talent, models and such, as opposed to the … male version of this, that mostly works on women who are from poor backgrounds.

        EDIT: sorry im not fully awake yet

        You’re saying she picked from poor Eastern European women?

        You’re probably more correct, im not trying to disagree, guess im trying to say that… if you are a beautiful successful wealthy female model, you run in those circles, you’re thus able to uh ‘poach’ from those circles.

        But, it would totally make sense that … being able to leverage that kind of class/reputation, you could get poor girls to trust you too.

        What was it, Ghislaine would literally just roll arond in a limo or something, and quite literally pick up random girls from the street?

        Oh… its all so disgusting I can’t think about it for significant periods of time without becoming furious.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      It should be mentioned that her ex, Zampolli, used his influence with Trump to have ICE deport her, so he could get custody of their daughter.

      That’s the kind of guy he is.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    301·
    3 days ago

    “We are at a loss for words to describe the anger and sadness we feel,” they said, with alleged victims “denied a criminal trial”.

    Because of what would have come out in that trial.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    I guess now that he’s dead they can finally stop pretending Epstein was a world renowned sex trafficker to only himself and nobody else.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      Nah, most of the customers are still alive, powerful, and litigious.

      CNN ain’t gonna risk a lawsuit for something so anti-establishment as speaking truth to power.

      It’s not like they’re trying to do JOURNALISM or anything like that!

  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    This has to be covering up for someone other than Dementia Man. He was a project manager for a Russian fashion television channel. Interesting connection.

  • RandomStranger@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    He was 69. Knowing his trade, he has probably done copious amounts of drugs and alcohol in his life. As much as I’d like to see people get what they deserve, it’s probably just a stroke or heart attack.

  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    The dead man’s lawyer stressed that Siad had “never been prosecuted”. “He is dead and he was innocent,” (…)

    I understand how defending someone can lead to a fair trial. However, if your client is dead, why in the world would you ever say something like this? Dude, you got the money, the case is done, now you don’t have to pretend anymore. Unless you are a complicit.