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green_goglin@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago

Modelling scout linked to Epstein found dead in Paris suburbs

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Modelling scout linked to Epstein found dead in Paris suburbs

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green_goglin@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago
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Daniel Siad, whose name appears in the Epstein files thousands of times, had previously denied knowledge of the threat Jeffrey Epstein posed.
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    Did this guy “commit suicide” too?

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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 her is.

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    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.

    • green_goglin@thelemmy.clubOP
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      curious

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    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.

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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”.

    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.

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    “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.

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    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.

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      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!

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    Well that’s not sketchy at all…

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    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

    • green_goglin@thelemmy.clubOP
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      Indeed

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    I’m sure there is nothing to see there. This world feels like a movie sometimes

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