‘Really a lot of amazing beauty’: emails show how model scout connected Epstein with young women

Daniel Siad, accused by a Swedish model of rape, appears in more than 1,000 documents in latest declassified files

Analysis of the correspondence between Epstein and one of his many fixers reveals the work that went into setting up appointments with a constant stream of young women in the decade after his release from prison on charges of procuring a child for prostitution.

On this occasion, Siad was eager not to fall out with Epstein and noted: “I wanted to make for you a great surprise.” He was happy to report that a recent trip to Scandinavia had been very productive: at least five of the girls he had met were just 16 or 17, and there was a 15-year-old girl from France whose parents were happy for her to start modelling. “There are millions of them out there,” he wrote.

The modelling industry was a useful route for Epstein to meet young women, and he took a consistently close interest in the low-level business of finding new faces, while simultaneously cultivating friendships with senior industry figures.

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