French prosecutors announced Friday that an autopsy performed on modeling scout Daniel Siad showed no evidence of violence, despite his well-documented connections to the late convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Siad, who was 69 years old, was discovered dead inside his home in Colombes, a town located northwest of Paris, on July 20.
The Nanterre prosecutor’s office released a statement saying, “No trace of recent violence potentially linked to the death was found.” Officials also noted that the autopsy, which was carried out on July 23, was unable to determine a direct cause of death.
Examiners did find signs of deteriorating health and evidence of a prior heart attack, prosecutors noted. Results from toxicology and pathology testing are still pending and will be needed to determine what ultimately caused his death.
Siad’s name surfaced nearly 2,000 times in files related to Epstein that were made public by the U.S. Department of Justice. French authorities had placed him under heightened surveillance as part of a sweeping investigation into human trafficking and tax fraud, though investigators never gathered sufficient evidence to arrest him. In May, Siad told French broadcaster BFM that his dealings with Epstein had been purely professional in nature.
His attorney, Menya Arab-Tigrine, stated this week that investigators found nothing that would have justified placing Siad under arrest, indicating that neither prosecutors nor police had concluded he had broken any laws.
Siad is the second individual with publicly known ties to Epstein to have died in France. Modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his prison cell in 2022 after spending 14 months in pretrial detention on charges of raping minors and sexual harassment — allegations he denied.
Epstein himself died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
