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boston bean

(36,941 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:36 AM 11 hrs ago

Could this be the reason for Melania's, Epstein denials?

Paolo Zampolli, great friend to both Trumps asked Trump to deport his ex girlfriend he was in custody battle with. Trump did so. Now the wife who was on Epsteins flight logs at age of 17, is threatening to spill all.

Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor.
Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.
He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.
The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.
The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported, an outcome that may well have happened regardless of Mr. Zampolli’s meddling. But the ICE official’s willingness to spring into action for a Trump ally — even one in a low-level, largely ceremonial role — reflects a recurring theme of the second Trump administration: The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.

https://archive.is/20260320185526/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html

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Could this be the reason for Melania's, Epstein denials? (Original Post) boston bean 11 hrs ago OP

There are so many different stories circling shithole's wife................ Lovie777 11 hrs ago #1

Such a sleazy pack of weasels these people are. Scrivener7 11 hrs ago #2

For real. All of these daily corruptions would have brought down a democratic presidency. boston bean 10 hrs ago #3

And the religious right seems to have misplaced its often violent outrage. Maybe it's in the wash. With a tan suit. Scrivener7 10 hrs ago #6

Zampolli, Epstein, Trump, and Melania all were part of an international sex trafficking operation. Botany 10 hrs ago #4

I like 'yes' to answer the question Easterncedar 10 hrs ago #5

Lovie777

(23,102 posts)

1. There are so many different stories circling shithole's wife................

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:40 AM

11 hrs ago

Scrivener7

(59,658 posts)

2. Such a sleazy pack of weasels these people are.

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 07:50 AM

11 hrs ago

boston bean

(36,941 posts)

3. For real. All of these daily corruptions would have brought down a democratic presidency.

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:00 AM

10 hrs ago

It is unbelievable nothing is being done!

Scrivener7

(59,658 posts)

6. And the religious right seems to have misplaced its often violent outrage. Maybe it's in the wash. With a tan suit.

Reply to boston bean (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:03 AM

10 hrs ago

Hypocritical howler monkeys.

Botany

(77,443 posts)

4. Zampolli, Epstein, Trump, and Melania all were part of an international sex trafficking operation.

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:01 AM

10 hrs ago

Just how big was Epstein, Vladimir, Trump, Wexner, Musk, Thiel, and whom ever else
criminal enterprise? Blackmail, sex trafficking, murder, election rigging, crypto, money
laundering, government officials on the take, fashion shows/beauty contests, and ?.
No wonder Melania and the White House are freaking out.

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From Wiki:

Paolo Zampolli (born March 5, 1970)[1] is an Italian-American businessman. After immigrating to the United States and founding a modeling agency, Zampolli became a close friend of Donald Trump, introducing him to his future wife, Melania Knauss, in 1998. After moving out of modeling, Zampolli founded a real estate firm and held roles representing Dominica at the UN. In 2020, Trump named Zampolli to the Kennedy Center's board of trustees. In the second Trump administration, Zampolli was named special envoy for global partnerships, in which capacity he has represented the United States in varied settings.[2][3]

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Zampolli moved to New York with Edit Molnar, a Hungarian model, and lived with her until at least 1996.[6] In 2002, he met Amanda Ungaro, a model from Londrina, Brazil, in Manhattan. Ungaro had earlier been brought to New York on Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express" from Paris (her agent at the time was Jean-Luc Brunel, an alleged procurer for Epstein).

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On January 21, 2025, Zampolli appeared at Donald Trump's Starlight inaugural ball with model Maria Borges.[30]

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Zampolli's social circle overlapped with that of Jeffery Epstein. Epstein patronized Zampolli's ID Model Management, and was a partner in Zampolli's 2004 bid to purchase Elite Model Management.[31] His name appears several times in the Epstein files; in one 2011 email, Epstein warned an Emirati businessman that "zampoli [sic] is trouble".[26] Zampolli was named as one of four partners in Ghislaine Maxwell's charity, the TerraMar Project, in 2013.[32]

Easterncedar

(6,322 posts)

5. I like 'yes' to answer the question

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2026, 08:02 AM

10 hrs ago

I am rather glad the story has resurfaced, because calling in favors to have the mother of your child deported to solve your custody dispute is evil AF. It’s getting uglier, but this needs to be seen.

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