Epstein files: "Recruiter" approached at least 5 Dutch models for sex crime convict
A model “recruiter” for the convicted child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein approached at least five Dutch models, RTL Nieuws reports after analyzing the Epstein files. Daniel Siad, a Swede with Algerian roots living in France, forwarded the women’s names and photos to Epstein.
According to the broadcaster, Siad’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the recently released section of the Epstein files. He appears to have been a key figure in Epstein’s network. He approached girls and women at events and on the streets, promising to help them with their modeling careers, and then forwarded their names and photos to Epstein. If Epstein liked the photos, Siad tried to set up a meeting.
RTL’s investigative team found the names and photos of five Dutch models in Siad’s correspondence with Epstein between 2009 and 2017. He attempted to set up a Skype call between Epstein and two young Dutch women, aged 19 and 20, though it is unclear whether the call actually happened. The two models involved declined to comment to RTL.
Two other women confirmed having contact with Siad, but did not know that he forwarded their photos to the sex offender until after the Epstein files were published. The broadcaster was unable to identify the fifth model, described only as “a cute girl from Holland,” in the released correspondence.
One of the women told RTL that Siad approached her in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2014 when she was 29 years old. “He said I could work in America, and I really wanted that. Then he asked if I could send photos. He apparently forwarded them.” She said that she was hesitant. “He promised mountains of gold; it all seemed too good to be true.”
She only discovered that her photos ended up with Epstein when Siad’s emails were released. “That’s a very unpleasant surprise,” she said.
The other model told RTL that Siad approached her in Paris in 2009, when she was 21. She was shocked to learn that her name appeared in the Epstein files.
Last week, the French public prosecutor’s office charged Siad with raping a Swedish woman in 1990, whom he also recruited as a model. RTL spoke to the woman, Emma Karlsson.
She met Siad in Stockholm in 1990, Karlsson said. “He said he found me so beautiful and could help me get a modeling career in France,” Karlsson told the broadcaster. Once in France, things quickly went wrong. “He took me to Monaco, but it turned out there was no work there at all. Then we went to a villa in Cannes, but it was closed. He then raped me in the garden shed by the pool.”
For 36 years, Karlsson’s rapist seemed to have vanished, until two weeks ago, when a Swedish journalist spotted him and sent her a photo. “I immediately felt sick when I saw him,” Karlsson said. She filed a report with the French police last week.
Siad may well have recruited more Dutch women for Epstein. Only a portion of the Epstein files have been released.
