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Paolo Zampolli’s Alleged Role in the Trump-Melania Origin Story (5/22/26)
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Paolo Zampolli is presented as a key figure in the Trump-Melania-Epstein timeline because he says he introduced Melania to Donald Trump in 1998 and insists Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with it. Zampolli ran ID Models, helped bring Melania into...
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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Last month, the first lady of the United States of America called an impromptu press conference, or speech, whatever you want to call it, to tell us all emphatically that she had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein and that she wasn't a victim. And at the time, it seemed weird because nobody was really even talking about Melania except for a few people. So obviously I was wondering what prompted her to get up there and, you know, start talking about Epstein. Well, it turns out that There was a 302 interview with Adriana Ross where she tells the story about Melania Trump and Donald Trump and how they met. And it's an absolute broadside to the narrative we've heard from Melania Trump and Donald Trump. So today we have another article from Raw Story, and the headline, epstein's recruiter FBI note, contradicts Melania's story and may have triggered her panic. This article was authored by Jordan Green. And if you recall, we've read through the whole entire 302 so that you saw what Adriana Ross or heard what Adriana Ross had to say for yourself. And whether you choose to believe her, well, that's up to you. But in my opinion, something stinks when it comes to the story of how Melania Trump and Donald Trump met. Melania Trump's hastily called press briefing last month to emphatically deny any relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein elicited a flurry of speculation about who might be holding information that the first lady doesn't want to come out. And I know the talk was about Amanda Ungaro, but I have some questions about what she had to say. So I didn't think it was Amanda Ungaro that elicited this sort of reaction from Melania. And it makes a whole lot more sense that it's the 302 report that was given by Adriana Ross to the FBI. That certainly makes a lot more sense, and that's because it's a lot more damning. You can't just write it off as somebody that has, you know, an issue with You a beef? Oh, we had a falling out. Amanda Ongaro's mad because she got deported. Well, Adriana Ross, when she was interviewed, certainly had no gripe with Donald Trump or Melania Trump, so why would she bring that up? I think it has legs and I think that there's a lot more here than we even know. A statement provided to the FBI and federal prosecutors by a former model who worked for Epstein as a recruiter for his sex trafficking enterprise appears to shed some light on what Melania is trying to keep under wraps. And you know how I tell you that the media is always a few weeks at least behind us? This is what I mean. We've already covered this, right? We've talked about this and how it was Adriana ross and her 302 that shed light here. So I would expect the legacy media to start calling for a special counsel in like six months. The entry in the Epstein files mentioning Melania and Donald by name focuses on a man at the center of the modeling industry that brought the Trumps together with Epstein in the late 90s and early 2000s. Yo, the whole modeling industry is chock full with sick, degenerate people. And I doubt it's changed. I. I doubt they've had some kind of Renaissance period, some reformation. Same kind of scumbags. Can somebody please explain to me why a guy like Donald Trump wants to have a teen pageant that he owns? What's the return on investment there? I'm guessing not great. Paolo Zampoli, the modeling agent who reportedly arranged a visa for then Melania Noss to come work in the United States, now serves as a special envoy for the president for a global partnership under the auspices of the U.S. state Department. The Epstein administration in full effect. And if you're wondering why Donald Trump is going so bananas about keeping this under wraps, well, just take a look. The seamless connection between the models represented by Zampoli, many of them recruited from abroad to work in the US on visas, and the women who became Epstein's victims and enablers is glaringly illustrated by Adriana Muczynska, a Polish born model who worked for both men. And that's Adriana Ross. She got married and she took her husband's last name. Ross described meeting Epstein through zompoli in a 2019 interview with the FBI and federal prosecutors in West Palm Beach, Florida, less than a week after Epstein's July 2019 arrest on charges of sex trafficking minors. Hell of a guy, that Paulo Zampoli. And I'm sure that him and Jeffrey Epstein they were just talking about, you know, the local fair. Have you had the caviar? Have you had yourself some of that large grouper, whatever the fuck these people eat? I mean, you think that's what they were talking about? I highly doubt it. And another thing. What did Paolo Zampoli know and when did he know it? Wuscinska, also known as Adriana Ross, was described in a 2020 New York Times investigation as one of four recruiters who worked under Glenn Maxwell to procure teenage girls for massage appointments, which often turned into sexual assaults. Well, that's true. She did do that. That was her job. One of the Core 4. And it's about time that people are hip to the fact that these women were crucial to what Epstein was doing. Without them, this operation doesn't run the way it did. Muchinska was reportedly named as a co conspirator and granted immunity from prosecution. And Epstein's widely criticized 2008 plea bargain? Yes, she was. All four core four members were given immunity, and that's because they didn't want them to talk. They can't control the blast radius if there's a bunch of people out here talking about what's going on. So they gave them a deal, too. Anything to make sure their buddy Jeffrey Epstein remains a free man and remains abusing people. That's all that mattered. According to interview notes reviewed by Raw Story, Muchinska told investigators she removed computers from Epstein's Palm Beach, Florida, mansion in 2005 at his request. Well, how about that, huh? Nah. Coincidence. He was just taking those computers over to the geek squad so they could fix them, that's all. Just happened to have his house raided that day? Come on. Coincidence? What are you, a conspiracy theorist? But before Muchinska knew Epstein, she knew Zampoli. A typed report of Muchinska's July 2019 interview in West Palm beach with two unnamed federal prosecutors and. And an unnamed FBI agent. Compiled in an official FBI document and released in the Epstein files indicates that Muchinska was interviewed as part of a proffer agreement, which typically provides immunity or leniency to an individual with information about a crime in exchange for complete truthfulness. They didn't even use it. They gave her the immunity and didn't even use her testimony. And then they said they had a weak case. You don't bring up Sarah Kellen Vickers. You don't bring up Adriana Ross, Leslie Grof. You don't bring them up and say, hey, look, you're going to testify against Epstein, or you're going to prison. They didn't do any of that, did they? I wonder why. The FBI report states that the individual, whose name is redacted, put Muchinska in contact with an agent named Paolo Zampoli, who work with ID Models, and that it was organized for Muchinska to go to New York to model. The report states that Muchinska lived in a model's apartment because she did not have the funds to pay for her own apartment. That was the Epstein Apartments on 66 where Epstein would stash all the girls that were engaged in the immigration fraud. The apartment accommodated 10 people and was on the same street as as the model agency on Varick Street. It states that Muchinska had an affair with the agent and that Zampoli was trying to buy Elite Models with Epstein. The next sentence in the typed FBI report of Muchinska's interview, based on her proffer agreement, states Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump. Well, well, well. So did Muchinska. Lai if so, then her immunity under that deal is no longer valid. So which is it? Are they going to pursue her and say she lied or is she telling the truth? In my opinion, she's telling the truth. That sentence alone would be a bombshell revelation except that separate handwritten notes from the same interview confuse by giving contradictory information suggesting that Muchinska told investigators that it was Zampoli who introduced Donald and Melania. As Zampoli has always maintained, those notes only reference the person who made the introduction as he. The notations preceding and immediately following it suggests that he is Zampoli, considering the document says he's trying to buy Elite Models with Jeffrey Epstein and I think he's an ambassador now. Well, let's get to the bottom of it. Let's bring Adriana Ross in and let's get her under oath. Seems like a pretty simple fix to me. Melania has emphatically denied that Epstein played a matchmaking role and during her April 9 press conference directly stated, epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. But another statement by Melania later in the press conference is clearly disproven by Muchinska's FBI proffer interview. My name has never appeared in court documents, depositions, victim statements or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter. The first lady said, what do you know? Another Trump who's telling lies. I'm shocked, Shocked, folks.
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During the press conference, Melania brushed aside an email she sent to Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's partner, on October 23, 2002, roughly around the same time that Muchinska arrived in the U. S. As a trivial note. Yeah, like Mr. Lutnick, right? That's just trivial, inconsequential, minor meetings. Melania also described the email, which includes the header hi as a polite reply. But the documents released by the Department of Justice clearly show that it was Maxwell who made a polite reply to Melania and that Melania initiated the exchange. These people are so deep in their lies that they actually believe it. Emails to the office of the first lady seeking comment for the story went unreturned. The FBI referred RAW Story's questions about the discrepancy between the two documents to the Department of Justice. Emails to the Department of Justice went unreturned in the next passage of the typed interview and and handwritten note detailing how Muchinska met Epstein, leading to her eventual employment with a child sex trafficker. There is no contradiction. The note indicates that Muchinska told investigators that Epstein visited ID models during casting auditions for models and flipped through a portfolio where he saw a photo of Muchinska wearing only swim bottoms. The next paragraph reflects that Muchinska reported that she was at a nightclub with Zampoli and Epstein and a second unidentified woman. The woman took down Muchinska's phone number, and Muchinska recalled that either the woman or Epstein later called her with an invitation to have dinner with Epstein. Probably Sarah Kellen Vickers, but I'm not sure. Maybe Nadia could be either one. Zampoli could not be reached for comment for this story, but in a statement to the American Prospect last month, he he said with regard to Jeffrey Epstein, it's a matter of public record that he had connections within the fashion and modeling sector. He did visit our headquarters. However, any implication of involvement, collaboration or endorsement is categorically rejected. Any suggestion otherwise is false and will be addressed accordingly. Okay, address it. Look, I don't know what the truth is, but I do know when I'm being bullshitted. Zampoli told the American Prospect he wasn't sure whether he remembered Muchinska, but it didn't matter because as an owner of an agency, he doesn't need to know every single model of his agency. After accepting Epstein's dinner invitation, Muchinska told investigators she took a tour of the residence and rebuffed sexual advances from Epstein. As a driver took her home, she remembered being tearful in the car for reasons unexplained in the interview, Muchinska accepted employment from Epstein in late 2004. Muchinska's duties, including scheduling massage appointments for Epstein and one passage of the reports reflects Muchinska telling investigators she was not sure if the girls who massaged Epstein were underage, but it seemed consensual and she knew it was a sexual massage. I don't believe that for a minute. And I don't look at Adriana Ross, by the way, as a victim. I look at her as part of the core four. Muchinska's time working for Zampoli in New York was sensitive enough that her lawyer advised her during the 2010 deposition for a civil lawsuit brought by one of Epstein's victims that she should invoke the Fifth Amendment to preserve her right to avoid self incrimination. And we read through that as well. Now you see why we go through all those court documents. I know it's not the funnest shit in the world. I get it. But we're not here for fun. I'm not here to entertain. I'm here to open these doors for you so you understand just exactly what we're up against. During the deposition, Muchinska disclosed that she worked for ID Models in New York and that her husband put her in touch with the agency. When a lawyer for plaintiffs asked how long she worked with ID Models, muchinska's lawyer interjected, you should invoke the regard to the time frame you're talking about. Mucinska has not spoken to the media in the past and cannot be reached for this story. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, James Comer, is reportedly exploring the possibility of calling her to testify. Well, if she lied during that 302, she should be brought in, right? Don't they want to protect Trump, so Comer should bring her in? Muchinska is not the only former model who links Epstein to Trump's current Special Envoy for Global Partnerships. Another woman, whose name's redacted, described a work arrangement under Zampoli that was strikingly similar to muchinska's during an April 2020 interview with the FBI. After signing with I D models at age of 18, the woman said she lived in the model's apartment on Varick street, according to the document. According to the woman, Zampoli was sleazy and dated models. She said that she stayed at the apartment for a year before Zampoli let her go. Later, she was working at the hoe stand at the coffee shop at Union Square in Manhattan. The woman told investigators that a woman with an Eastern European accent approached her and invited her to meet Epstein, whom she described as a wealthy client. The document describes the massage session and in which Epstein commanded the woman to take off her clothes and pressured her into non consensual sexual encounter. Later, the woman told investigators she had a mental breakdown, started drinking and couldn't function. The statement aligns on significant points with an account given by a survivor known as Kiki do during a 2019 interview for TV's Dr. Oz. In that interview, the survivor described the coffee shop as a hunting ground for recruiters because most of the staff were models. The Dr. Oz interview appears to include no mention of Zampoli, and Kiki Doe has said in separate interview that the model's apartment where she stayed was on 42nd street as opposed to Varick Street. I'm guessing 66 is what she means. Mehmet Oz, the host of Dr. Oz, now serves as administrator of the center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Trump administration. Of course, why not? Terry Gibbs, the attorney who represents the woman who described working for Zanpali at ID Models, declined a request to put Raw Story in touch with her client or discuss her statement to the FBI. While Zampoli might plausibly claim he doesn't remember Muchinska or the Epstein survivor recruited from the coffee shop, another former model linked to Epstein will be harder to ignore. Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who dated Zampoli for almost two decades and has a 15 year old son with him, arrived in New York in 2002 on Epstein's private jet. Her modeling agent in Paris who arranged her flight was Jean Luc Bruno, a longtime Epstein associate who died of an apparent suicide in a Parisian prison cell in 2022 while awaiting trial for rape of miners and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. Ungaro, who was deported by U. S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement following Zampoli's reported intervention in her case, has said she's willing to testify before the House Oversight Committee looking into the Epstein affair. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get her up there. Let's see what she has to say under oath. One day before Melania Trump's hastily call press conference, Ungaro wrote on X in a post that was subsequently deleted, something was clearly wrong, but I'm not part of any evil mission involving children. So what did you do, Melania? You tried to involve me, but you failed because I have character. So look again, I don't know enough about Amanda Ongaro's story here to really get into the weeds. There's a lot to pick through, but when you have other corroborating information and you have somebody like Adriana Ross saying this during a 302 proffer, it carries weight. So if she's lying, then they should bring her in. But if they don't bring her in, if they don't go after her, then what does that tell you? It tells me that there's legs and it tells me that what Adriana Ross said is true. And while we don't have a full picture yet, what we do know is pretty damning to the narrative that's being pitched by Melania Trump. So we'll have to keep an eye on it. 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