What do theEpstein filesreveal about Daniel Siad, the 69-year-old who wasfound deadof unestablished causes in his home northwest ofParisthis week?
Siad worked with Jeffrey Epstein for at least a decade across the 2000s and 2010s, according to the documents amassed during investigations into the late paedophile and released by the US department of justice between December 2025 and March this year.
Siad’s name features in roughly 2,000 records, mostly emails, Skype and WhatsApp messages retrieved in searches of Epstein’s devices.
Siad would send Epstein photos of young women, often alongside their age and body measurements, and Epstein would reply soliciting more.
The wealthy financier was blunt and his requirements precise: “cute”, “looks a little heavy”, “age?”, “she is nice her boobs are awful. they will have to be redone”.
Siad sought suitable “girls” for Epstein in Bangkok, Morocco, Paris, Stockholm, Riga, Cape Town, Havana, Ko Samui, and in “small villages” in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, according to the records.
An Algerian-born, French-Swedish citizen who described himself as a “Berber Jew” and also used the name Amar, Siad would organise “castings” to get photos of candidates for Epstein.
He would represent himself as working for “FashionhdTV” or “whatsupmanagement.com” and liked to work alongside a woman.
“It’s always easier when there is a girl around,” Siad wrote to Epstein in 2017.
Siad would ask women if they were interested in opportunities in New York, and would arrange travel and accommodation, the records show. He sent messages asking Epstein to confirm if women had arrived on location.
“JEFFREY SHE DOWN WATING” [sic] Siad messaged Epstein in 2014. “NOTBODY TO OPEN FOR HER.”
A young woman whose name was insufficiently redacted in the records confirmed to The Irish Times that she had been approached by Siad as she left a model casting event in 2014.
Siad told her he represented a New York modelling agency and gave her his card, saying he could connect her with opportunities. He asked her to send him her photographs and body measurements. When she did so, without her knowledge Siad forwarded them to Epstein.
“Nice French girl who would like to try her chance in NY in modeling and acting,” Siad wrote.
Their contact ended after Siad later invited her to dinner, and she “politely declined”, according to the woman.
