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Alrighty. We have some breaking news out of Paris. Daniel Syed, the longtime modeling scout, and I'll put that in quotes, recruiter for not only Jeffrey Epstein, but for Jean Luc Brunel and Gerald Marie, was found dead in his home on Monday. According to French authorities. Syed at the time age 69, discovered by his roommates is how the French media are referring to her. She is only 28 years old. She found his body in the kitchen. She alerted the neighbors, who then had the authorities arrive. Rescuers tried to resuscitate Syed on the scene, but weren't able to do so. An investigation has actually now been launched as of Monday night into psych Sayed's death, according to the Nantel prosecutor's office, with an autopsy that would be carried out as a part of this probe into his cause of death. Now, Daniel said if you put in the word Syed Siad, his name appears 2090 times in the as redacted as released Epstein files at the Trump DOJ has put out and his name or Daniel Syed communicated in more than 1,000 documents that have been released in the Epstein files. And again, that's just what's been released by the Trump doj. Syed was already under a criminal investigation based on the allegations that he was facilitating this international sex trafficking ring of not only Jeffrey Epstein, but others. As I mentioned, he not only worked for Epstein, but he worked for Epstein's close friend and business associate, Jean Luc Brunel. Recall, Epstein and Brunel launched MC2 modeling and it was financed by Jeffrey Epstein, run by Jean Luc Brunel and then Gerald Marie. If that name sounds familiar, it's because I just reported to you last week that I went to a French court when six new victims filed complaints against Gerald Marie for sex trafficking, rape, assault and other violent offenses. I mean, it sounds to me like the common denominator between Epstein, Brunel and Marie, at a minimum, was Daniel Syed. But that's a problem, folks. The fact that it's a past tense verb that I have to use really troubles me because according to French media reporting Syed under investigation, his case having been assigned to a special unit that deals with this type of trafficking. Turns out they had yet to interview him. I'm going to repeat this. French authorities had yet to interview Sayed despite the fact that months ago, earlier this year, In February of 2026, they interviewed a Swedish woman, Ebba Carlson, who recognized Syed based upon his picture being released and the Epstein files. She claims that Syed took her from the south of France and Monaco to Paris, where She was then sexually assaulted by Gerald Marie. Again, people, the connections are too deep and just too much there to have ignored. So let's just get into some of the specifics about the connection to Jeffrey Epstein because it gets incredibly important to let people understand the depth by which this relationship went between these two men and why it's incredibly frustrating now to learn that Syed is dead and investigators had yet to question him. So if you look at the Epstein files, Daniel Syed was one of the most loyal. Loyal correspondence. That's the phrase that the Guardian used to describe Daniel Syed. Syed remaining in regular contact with Epstein until months before he died. He also received regular wire payments from Jeffrey Epstein. Now he went on modeling scouting visits all over the world, focusing on places like Eastern Europe, Sweden, also going to places like Havana, Cuba. He was looking for young women, frankly, girls, really, at this rate, for Epstein to meet, to be introduced to. As I mentioned, Daniel Syed also worked as a modeling scout for Jean Luc Brunel. Jean Luc Brunel, who opened MC2 modeling with Jeffrey Epstein, relied on Epstein for the financing for that modeling business that was based out of the United States, but but also had hubs in Paris and all over the world. Brunel was the leading modeling agent in Paris, New York and Miami for more than four decades. Jean Luc Brunel was not the only person that Daniel Syed scouted for. He also scouted for Gerald Marie, the former head of Elite Models. And Gerald Marie, the subject of that complaint or the six new complaints that were filed in the French court last week in order to prosecute him by the investigating judge. That special role here in the French judicial system, a judge who has the subpoena power, questioning power, the ability to be the true investigator into things. Gerald Marie being the target of those particular complaints. That also includes the amazing supermodel American Kare or Carrie Otis. So Epstein and Brunel again working very closely with this MC2 model management company. So Syed is working as this modeling scout running all over the world. And for example, he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in 2009 that he went to Slovakia. He said he had 45 women. Women was the word that Siad used. Let me be clear to see there. He then tells Epstein that he was going to spend the summer scouting small villages in the Czech Republic, Pop, Poland and Hungary. What does Epstein respond to him with? How much? Using a dollar sign instead of a question mark at the end. How much? How much for what? Jeffrey Epstein and Daniel Syed. How come you're not writing back saying, what do you mean? How Much. It wasn't just a fee for services rendered people, right? I mean, we're not stupid in terms of what was going on here. Now, Epstein wasn't particularly loquacious. He wasn't particularly verbose with some Syed. Epstein would send messages. What about new girls, things like, any news? How about anything worth coming to Paris for? Or any interesting women? That's the type of questions that were posed by Epstein to Syed during the course of their relationship. Now, Syed defending himself, claiming, I had no idea. Doesn't that sound familiar? That's what they all say. I had no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. I was doing legitimate model scouting for. For Epstein. And I would bring them to meet Jeffrey in places like Paris to do casting sessions. And when they were done, I would take them back to wherever they came. Syed stating the following. Quote, he, as in Epstein, had a big apartment in Paris where he used to organize all his meetings, including casting for models I recruited Ready for Victoria's Secret and MC2. That's per a statement that Syed emailed to the Guardian. Quote, the casting time would not last more than 10 minutes. I always left the place with the models immediately. Let's stop right there. Victoria's Secret, Leslie Wexner, you know, the guy who was like, I didn't know anything. I have no idea. You know, I just let him, you know, manage my money and do all this other stuff, really. Now, remember, and MC2 we already talked about, Right? That's John Lee. Think about this, people. Again, this is the reason why I believe that it's the international modeling angle that gave so much credibility and cover for people like Epstein to be able to continue his outrageous international sex trafficking ring. Why? Well, because again, you don't question it if a young girl under the age of 18 is traveling for purposes of modeling, because there were a lot of young girls. Girls, right, that were going and doing this. And, and, and so it's just a really kind of horrific theme here that we're seeing that came out of this. This modeling scout that, that this guy Daniel said proved to be. Now, let's talk about Ebba Carlson for a second. Remember, I just said she recognized Syed from photographs that were released in the Epstein files by the Trump doj. So she came forward, and then earlier this year, she met with Parisian law enforcement. She filed criminal allegations of rape and human trafficking against him in Paris. His lawyer denying that Syed even knew who Ebba Carlson was. Now, another woman reporting to Le Parisienne, another French media outlet, and she was referred to as Malika in that report, Malika telling French police in 2022, 2022 that Daniel Syed approached her and that he was procuring women for Jeffrey Epstein for sexual reasons. She said he walked up to her on a street in Paris in 2013 when she was just 23 years old, told her she could become a model and that he knew this rich financier from New York who could hook her up and help her out. A few days later, she was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein in his Parisian apartment. He hired her, as you guessed it, a masseuse. Daniel Syed later telling Malika that she should be out recruiting more girls for Epstein. But the French police took no action, according to Malika in an interview with Le Parisienne. In addition, the the the Epstein files, setting out that Epstein was forwarding money to the tune of thousands upon thousands of dollars to die to Daniel Syed. You know me and you know that I am obsessed with my Jones Road Beauty Miracle bomb. I am that person that's running around crazy in the mornings. I have no time. I'm always traveling. The last thing I need is some huge bulky makeup kit with a million things inside when all I can do is use my Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm and I lush. I get a lip tint, I get a bronzer, I get a highlighter. It's all in one. And all of the Jones Rare beauty products, they are clean and high performing. That's really important because you don't want to be doing anything bad to your skin. 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I mean, look, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that there was something totally awry that was going on here and the Connection between all of these sexual predators from Epstein to Marie to, you know, Brunel. It's an inescapable thing. And yet I don't blame some of the victims and some of the survivors for being angry about this now happening, Syed's death, being suspicious. The timing is weird, don't you think? After those six complaints came forward last week, albeit we reported it here, we talked about it here at Katie Fang News, I thought it was important to share it with you so that you understood what was going on. A few days later, he's dead. Now, I don't know if there was any wrongdoing that occurred. I think it's good that the French authorities are looking into it. But think about how, how long justice has been eluding and evading the victims and the survivors. And we don't even get any action being done by the Trump doj. We have an acting Attorney General on Todd Blanche, who is rude and dismissive and disrespectful to the Epstein survivors and that he tells them, I can't do anything, I can't investigate. You have to bring me a perfectly packaged thing of evidence with sworn testimony, corroboration, and if you don't, I can't do anything for you. That's bullshit, folks. I'm telling you, as a former prosecutor, that's not how it works. So you can imagine time is not. Time is not of help. The passage of time is hurting the ability to be able to prosecute these cases. For example, Ebba Carlson's report to the French authorities about Daniel Syed was time barred because of the statute of limitations. That is why this opportunity to use an investigating judge, a juge d', instruction, this investigating judge here in France, the ability to use that judge to be able to link all of these worlds together, including to be able to get to Ghislaine Maxwell, a French citizen, is so important. But a very important connecting link is now dead. So I hope that the French authorities are now going to not delay looking into what is going on, because, look, you can't prosecute a dead person in France and you can't even go after that dead person's estate in France. Just like Jean Luc Brunel died under suspicious circumstances of hanging in a prison cell, just like Jeffrey Epstein allegedly hanged himself in a prison cell, we now have Daniel Syed, who allegedly died from cardiac arrest. I mean, you need the French authorities to haul ass to really start investigating this, because again, time is no friend to victims and survivors of sexual assault. I also wanted to talk about the Following a former model telling BBC to kind of underscore my point to you. She gave a deposition to the French police in June of this year as a part of the investigation that has been done into Syed. But this is what she said about the fact that he is now dead. Quote, an important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air without there ever having been a chance to recover the information Daniel Syed might have possessed, given that he was never questioned, too much time has been lost and it is yet another way for the leads to go cold. I hope we won't have to wait another seven years to see his home searched, even though I think it is already too late. And I have to agree. Look, if the investigation into Syed's death is going to be into the manner and the cause of death, then I certainly hope the investigation that was going on into his, the allegations of him sexually assaulting women, him facilitating the trafficking by Epstein, Brunel and Marie. I hope that the French police continue to do that in, in spite of Syed being dead. But maybe, maybe the kind of silver lining from this happening with Syed dying on Monday night is that the investigating judge gets assigned more quickly in the Gerald Marie case. And that investigating judge understands that this link kind of between the common denominator between all of these sexual predators is now gone. But it doesn't mean that the evidence has to be gone, gone. It doesn't mean that this investigating judge can't sit there and continue to research and look into and explore and subpoena and, and talk to and interview people to kind of get it all together. It is a big web. And just another footnote, this is why my lawsuit against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch is so important. As I continue to emphasize and stress the, the international component of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and others, the international component of this trafficking ring being kind of, I think, the crux of all of this, behind the financing, the money laundering, the ability to fly from country to country, to cross international borders, to bring girls and children across international borders, to take them into places like Zorro Ranch and the Virgin Islands and Palm beach and Manhattan and Paris. I mean, these are all critically a part of the bigger network of this international modeling. But my lawsuit seeks the production of the foreign language documents that have never seen the light of day from the doj. And according to Todd Blanche, he gives two excuses, as you will recall. One is it wasn't practicable to translate, which is a bullshit reason. And number two, he also said that Congress hasn't complained about it. So why should we? Which again, is a big middle finger to the judge in this case who's told him, I don't give a shit about your it's not practicable excuse. Go ahead and do what you're already seven months behind. These foreign language documents that nobody has even seen, guys nobody has even seen. They could be big, huge keys to being able to continue to link and connect all of these sexual predators and to be able to apply pressure on people like Gerald Marie, who is still alive as of right now, of this, of this interview, of this episode with you. At least Jerome is still alive. And you know who else is still alive? Ghislaine Maxwell. Okay, Ghislaine Maxwell has only been prosecuted for crimes that are specific jurisdictionally to the Southern District of New York. It doesn't mean that she can't be extradited to France to be able to be prosecuted as a French citizen for her conduct against people at large. They don't have to be victims. The victims don't have to be French citizens. Let me be clear. The law is, as long as that's a French citizen, IEEE G. Ergo, Ghislaine Maxwell, she can be extradited back to France. But we needed somebody like Daniel Syed to be able to explain and point fingers and be able to find Jesus and explain what the hell was going on. Maybe right. But now we especially need that investigating judge to be able to make all of these connections. It's pretty wild news. I continue to ask if you have been a victim of Gerald Marie, Jean Luc Brunel, Jeffrey Epstein, Gallen Maxwell. I would want to know. Please reach out and let me know. I have a way to discreetly connect you with the people here in Paris and in France that can help and work with you to be able to protect you when it comes to the French authorities and others. But I think this is the time when we have to continue to put pressure, pressure on even foreign countries to be able to do what they've launched. Because our country, our United States Department of Justice, will not be doing it for the Epstein survivors at this point. The only thing they're doing is stonewalling and making up excuses as to why they can't turn over the unredacted documents. Be mad, be outraged, man. Accountability. I will continue to report on developments that come as a result of this breaking news. But Daniel Syed, friend, confidant, longtime correspondent, modeling scout and recruiter, maybe even groomer for Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Luc Brunel, and Gerald Marie has been found dead. In his Parisian home as of Monday night. I'll see you on the other side. Katie Feng here. We launched the Katie Fang News Channel in partnership with the Midas Touch Network, so we could bring you the latest in legal and political news. Straight, no chaser. So if you're a fellow truth teller, hit that subscribe button and share the word about this channel so we can build a high information America together.