What were the specific allegations against Jeffrey Epstein that Paolo Zampolli testified about?

1. What the released files actually say: an assistant’s statement about introductions, not testimony from Zampolli

A newly public document cited by The Daily Beast and other outlets records that a former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein told federal agents the assistant had been modeling, later worked for Epstein, and related that Epstein “put [redacted] in contact with an agent named PAOLO ZEMPOLI” — a presumed reference to Paolo Zampolli — which those outlets interpret as placing Zampolli in the constellation of people who worked with models connected to Epstein, but the document is the assistant’s statement, not a deposition or sworn testimony by Zampolli himself about Epstein’s alleged crimes ^{[1] [3]}.

2. Conflicting narratives about who introduced Melania and why it matters

Multiple pieces of reporting emphasize the narrow factual dispute revealed in the files: some documents and public claims assert Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump, while longstanding public accounts and Trump’s own early statements credit Paolo Zampolli as the introducer; news outlets note the new document contradicts the Zampolli-origin story but do not present Zampolli as testifying about Epstein’s criminal conduct — the dispute is about social introductions and associations, not explicit allegations Zampolli made against Epstein ^{[2] [4] [1]}.

3. No sourced allegation by Zampolli that Epstein trafficked or abused — available reporting is silent

The sources provided do not contain an instance in which Paolo Zampolli is reported to have testified that Epstein committed specific crimes such as sex trafficking, sexual abuse, or procuring minors; rather, reporting frames Zampolli as a modeling agent and occasional intermediary in the modeling world and cites others’ statements that connect Epstein, modeling agents, and models ^{[5] [1]}. If Zampolli made formal allegations in a sworn statement, those allegations are not present in the cited documents.

4. How reporting has been leveraged politically and why to treat claims cautiously

Outlets and commentators have used the introduction dispute to score political points and to question broader ties among Epstein, political figures, and the modeling industry; the Hindustan Times frames the new files as “shocking” and contradictory to the Zampolli story, while other outlets stress that Trump historically said Zampolli introduced him to Melania — revealing competing agendas in coverage that emphasize sensational turns when documents appear ^{[2] [4]}. Readers should note that some sources conflate social introductions with culpability, and that the assistant’s statement to prosecutors is one source among many rather than conclusive proof of any broader criminal allegation against Epstein by Zampolli ^[1].

5. Alternate readings and limits of the record

One plausible reading is that Epstein’s circle, modeling agents, and models intersected in ways that created multiple, partially overlapping accounts of who introduced whom — a small, factual quarrel amplified because of the figures involved ^{[5] [1]}. The reporting available does not establish that Paolo Zampolli made sworn allegations about Epstein’s criminal activity; nor do the documents cited provide a clear, corroborated chain tying Zampolli to testimony alleging specific abuses by Epstein ^{[1] [3]}. That absence is not a claim that such testimony never exists — it is a statement about the limits of the sources provided.

6. Bottom line: what can be stated with evidence and what remains unproven

Based on the documents and coverage provided, Paolo Zampolli is connected in reporting to the social network around Epstein and modeling agencies and is named (or inferred) in an assistant’s statement as an agent who worked with models, but there is no sourced record here of Zampolli testifying to specific allegations against Jeffrey Epstein such as trafficking or sexual abuse; the emergent story is one of contradictory accounts about introductions and associations, and not of Zampolli prosecuting or accusing Epstein in the materials cited ^{[1] [2] [4]}.