Juliette G., a 43-year-old former French model, has accused Daniel Siad, a modelling scout with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, of grooming her for sexual exploitation in 2004. She said Siad approached her in Paris at age 21, offering professional opportunities in the United States. He provided a plane ticket and an address in New York, which she accepted after her modelling agency confirmed they knew him. Upon arrival, she went to a building on Madison Avenue where she briefly met Epstein, whose name Siad had not previously mentioned. Epstein took her passport, gave her $120, and offered the use of a limousine for shopping. Juliette described this as a calculated step that left her feeling indebted. The next day, Epstein showed her a gym with photographs focusing on women's intimate body parts, then led her to a bedroom. He told her he needed to see her breasts to recommend her to agencies. She complied, later saying she felt pressured after the cost of her trip. Epstein groped her, judged her body as substandard, and suggested she work as a party "escort" if she needed money. Juliette demanded her passport back, and Epstein returned it from a pile of about twenty others. She left and never returned. Epstein died in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. Siad denies the allegations and is under investigation in France. Juliette is speaking to help investigators identify Epstein's associates.
Juliette G. trusted her agency's endorsement of Daniel Siad, only to be isolated in New York with no passport and no way out. The man who promised her a career instead placed her in a bedroom with a predator. Her story reveals how professional gatekeepers can become conduits for exploitation. Speaking up years later does not undo the harm, but it exposes the quiet complicity that enabled it.
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