Paolo Zampolli Connects Epstein, Maxwell, Melania, and Trump. He’s Currently a US Special Envoy.

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The modeling agent rabbit hole goes deeper than anyone’s reporting.

Oh – you thought I was done writing about Melania’s surprise Epstein press conference and the Amanda Ungaro situation?

Well, I fell down the Paolo Zampolli rabbit hole and guess what I found? Every layer of this guy’s biography connects to something worse.

So let me back up and lay out the full picture of the man at the center of all of it, ’cause once you see the whole timeline, Melania’s panicked Thursday afternoon denial starts looking less like damage control and more like a load-bearing wall about to give.

Zampolli grew up rich in Milan. His father owned a toy company. When dad died, Paolo was 18 and inherited the business. He sold it to Silvio Berlusconi’s group on the advice of John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management. Casablancas had a documented history of sexual relationships with underage girls, including a public relationship with 16-year-old Stephanie Seymour when he was 42. He was the subject of a 60 Minutes investigation in the 1980s. This is the man who told Zampolli to get into modeling.

So Zampolli started ID Models in New York in the mid-90s. One of the first things he did was scout a Slovenian model named Melania Knauss and bring her to the US on an H-1B visa in 1996. He moved her into his building at Zeckendorf Towers. Then in September 1998, he threw a party at the Kit Kat Club and introduced her to Donald Trump.

Trump was on a date that night. With a Norwegian heiress named Celina Midelfart.

Yes – that’s her real name.

Midelfart appears in Epstein’s flight logs 13 times. During the Maxwell trial in 2021, testimony established that Epstein dated Midelfart in the mid-90s and sent her flowers from his office. And in the Epstein files released this year, there’s an email Epstein sent to Michael Wolff in December 2015 where he described Midelfart as “my 20-year-old girlfriend in 93” and said that “after two years I gave her to Donald.”

Gave her to Donald. His words.

So the night Trump met Melania, he was on a date with a woman Epstein claims to have “given” him. At a party thrown by a modeling agent who was business partners with Epstein. In a room full of models from that agent’s agency. And the woman Trump left with that night had been brought to America by that same agent two years earlier.

Zampolli didn’t stay in modeling. After ID Models, he joined the Trump Organization as Director of International Development. Then he started his own real estate company, Paramount Group, which used models from his former agency as brokers to sell Manhattan apartments. Gross.

Then, he got a UN ambassadorship to Dominica in 2013. His partner Amanda Ungaro got one to Grenada in 2014. And here’s the detail that I genuinely had to read twice: Zampolli worked alongside Ghislaine Maxwell on UN ocean initiatives and was part of the team that developed Sustainable Development Goal 14.

He’s also connected to Maxwell’s TerraMar Project, the environmental nonprofit that gave out almost no money in grants and was shut down five days after Epstein was arrested in 2019.

The guy who introduced Melania to Trump was in a professional relationship with the woman who procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. While simultaneously holding a diplomatic post and attending White House Christmas parties.

Okay – are you catching on to what this man MUST know about?

Trump appointed Zampolli to the Kennedy Center board in 2020. In the second term, he made him special envoy for global partnerships, a State Department gig with ambassador-level clearance. This is a man who appears dozens of times in the Epstein files. Whose modeling agency was patronized by Epstein. Who tried to buy Elite Models with Epstein in 2004. Who in one Epstein email is warned about as “trouble.” And who contacted ICE last year to get the mother of his child deported during a custody battle, a woman who happened to have flown on the Lolita Express as a teenager.

Now, as I mentioned in my last essay about all this, the Epstein Files also contain a redacted FBI proffer from 2019 where an immunity witness told federal agents that “Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump” and that “Zempoli was trying to buy Elite Models with Epstein.”

Melania says Zampolli made the introduction, not Epstein. Zampolli says the same thing. But neither of them has ever said it under oath. No committee has subpoenaed him. And after Melania’s press conference Thursday, Zampolli told the Daily Mail he’s ready to testify. Which is a nice volunteer offer. The Oversight Committee should haul him in and ask him about everything EXCEPT Melania – just for funsies.

Meanwhile, Amanda Ungaro is in Brazil posting directly at Melania, saying she has 20 years of receipts and nothing left to lose. And Melania is at the White House podium denying she ever knew Epstein while calling the email she initiated to Ghislaine Maxwell a “reply.”

The whole Zampolli timeline is sitting right there for anyone who wants to look. The modeling pipeline. The Epstein business partnership. The Maxwell connection. The Trump Organization. The diplomatic posts. The deportation. It’s all one guy, connecting all the same people, for 30 years. And he’s currently drawing a government paycheck.

And that, my friends, is why Melania looked nervous.

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