French justice indicated Friday that the autopsy of the body of Daniel Siad, alleged tout of women for the child criminal Jeffrey Epstein, found dead in Colombes (Paris region), did not reveal “traces of recent violence that could be linked to the death”.
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The forensic examination carried out on Thursday “did not reveal an immediate cause of death at this stage”, said the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office in a press release.
On the other hand, it “made it possible to observe an altered state of health, as well as traces of an old heart attack which could put one at risk of sudden death”, adds the prosecution. Additional analyses, particularly toxicological and on the tissues taken, were required.
The investigation into the causes of death “continues”, according to the public prosecutor.
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The body of Daniel Siad, 69, was discovered at his home in Colombes on Monday evening.
Targeted by several complaints, notably for rape, this model recruiter, who presented himself as “born French and a Swedish citizen”, was the subject of an investigation in Paris.
He contested these accusations and said he wanted to be heard by investigators to give his version of the facts.
If his death led to the termination of the investigation concerning him, “the framework investigation opened on February 18, 2026” and “entrusted to the Central Office for the Suppression of Trafficking in Human Beings continues in order to identify all the people likely to be implicated”, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a press release on Wednesday evening.
The first complaint against Siad was filed on February 10, in Paris, by a former Swedish model, Ebba P. Karlsson.
The fifty-year-old was unaware of his identity before recognizing him in the declassified archives linked to Epstein – where Siad is cited in more than a thousand documents.
In her complaint, she accuses him of having raped her when she was 20 and then of having sexually exploited her by introducing her to Gérald Marie, former director of the prestigious Elite modeling agency, to whom she accuses of another rape.
