A French modelling scout with close ties to the late US financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home outside Paris, prosecutors say.

Daniel Siad, a modeling scout who sent young women to Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead at his home.

Marie-Céline Lawrysz, Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Nanterre Judicial Court, told CNN that an autopsy would be conducted to establish the cause of death.