A modelling scout suspected of acting as a procurer for the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home in Paris. His name is reported to have appeared more than a thousand times across declassified files relating to Epstein, pointing to the scale of his alleged involvement in the disgraced financier's network of abuse.

No further detail on the circumstances of the death or the man's identity has yet been made available in reporting. Given the frequency with which he was named in the declassified documents, the case is likely to attract renewed scrutiny and further questions over who helped facilitate Epstein's abuse of victims.