ebba carlson She was 20 when she met him. She was walking with her boyfriend and his friends in a park in Stockholm city when an older French man approached her and asked if she had ever modelled. He told her his name was Daniel Goldberg. And he was a model scout with connections all over the place.
A little later, she was with him in a beautiful villa near Cannes, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It was there, she says, that he raped her.
“Later, I blamed myself,” she says. Helen Pidd“Because I wondered why I didn’t fight back, why didn’t I punch him or run away? But I was too scared.”
However, for decades Ebba could know very little about this Daniel Goldberg. It was only late last year – after the Epstein files were released – that a reporter called him with the news. They had found a scout… but his name was Daniel Siad.
guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman Describes what is known about Daniel Siad, the model scout accused by multiple women of human trafficking and rape and his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
What next for the women demanding justice against Siad and the many supporters of Epstein’s crimes, following his sudden death at his home in Paris last week?
