A Swedish woman filed a complaint in Paris on Tuesday, February 10, claiming that she recognized a man in the files on convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly raped her in the 1990s, legal sources told Agence France-Presse. Ebba Karlson, 56, accuses the man, identified partially as Daniel S. and whom she met in Sweden, of having taken her to Monaco, then France, on the promise of a modelling career.
Her complaint to the Paris prosecutors’ office, which AFP has seen, alleges the man raped her in the swimming pool area of a house in Cannes, in the south of France. He then allegedly took her to Gérald Marie, the former European head of the Elite modelling agency. The complaint was first reported by Le Point.
The woman lodged a claim of rape in 2020 against Marie but the case was one of a number closed due to France’s statute of limitations. She did not file a complaint against Daniel S., as she did not know his identity. Thirty-six years later, however, the woman said she recognized her attacker in photos published by the US Justice Department in the Epstein case. Her boyfriend at the time, who met Daniel S., also said he recognized him.
The name Daniel S. appears in a number of exchanges with Epstein, who killed himself in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.
The woman’s lawyer, Anne-Claire Lejeune, said, “Ms Karlson would like the Paris prosecutor’s office to take up her complaint in order to allow for an investigation into acts of rape and human trafficking.” She also wants to determine “if this behavior has been repeated, to shed light on how it operated and, if necessary, identify any potential victims in cases that have not expired under the statute of limitation,” she added. The person accused by the woman could not immediately be contacted by AFP.
