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Multiple reputable accounts say Paolo Zampolli—then a New York modeling-agent and co‑owner of Metropolitan/ID Models—discovered Melania Knauss in the mid‑1990s, sponsored her move to the U.S., and int...
Melania Trump worked with Metropolitan International Management (also referenced as Metropolitan Models) in , and her longtime association with Paolo Zampolli — a partner at that agency — is central t...
Melania Trump’s career before marrying Donald Trump was , beginning in adolescence and taking her to Milan, Paris and New York, with broad agreement across biographical and news sources . Contemporary...
Melania Trump moved to New York in the mid‑1990s to advance a European modeling career she began in Slovenia and then in Paris; multiple profiles say she relocated to New York in 1996 and worked there...
Melania Trump worked as a fashion model in Europe and the United States throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and “appeared on the covers of several magazines,” including a noted appearance in the 2000...
Available sources say Melania Trump (born Melania Knauss) worked with European agencies in Paris and Milan before moving to New York in the mid‑1990s and that Paolo Zampolli (of Metropolitan Models) p...
Melania Trump began modeling in Slovenia as a teenager after meeting photographer Stane Jerko and went on to work in fashion hubs across Europe and later in the United States; sources say her career i...
Brian Ference appears in multiple public roles: as an Arizona-based conservative activist and self-described independent/citizen journalist with a personal site and local political activity , and sepa...
Multiple contemporaneous and later profiles say Melania (then Melania Knauss) was introduced to Donald Trump in 1998 by Milanese modeling agent Paolo Zampolli at a New York party; Trump himself and se...
Reporting links Paolo Zampolli to several controversies: his role as a modeling-agent connector in the 1990s (including introducing Melania Knauss to Donald Trump) has drawn scrutiny because of allege...
Melania Knauss (born Melanija Knavs) began modeling as a teenager in Slovenia after being discovered at about age 16 by photographer Stane Jerko; her first portfolio and early assignments were shot in...
Available reporting shows Melania Trump worked as a fashion model in Europe (Paris, Milan and elsewhere) in the 1990s and early 2000s and later moved to the U.S. after being introduced to Paolo Zampol...
Melania Trump launched a professional modeling career in Europe before meeting Donald Trump, beginning with runway shows in her hometown and progressing to contracts with Milan agencies after being di...
Melania Trump’s upbringing in Sevnica, Slovenia—daughter of a car salesman father and a mother who worked in the textile industry—exposed her to design and fashion early; she attended a secondary scho...
Tabloids and mainstream outlets both spent years spotlighting Melania Trump’s early modeling work — emphasizing nude and glamour shoots, European magazine covers, and questions about her U.S. immigrat...
Melania Trump built a transatlantic modeling résumé before her 2005 marriage, beginning work at 16, reaching the Look of the Year finals in 1992, and working through Paris and Milan agencies before mo...
Albert Einstein left the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich at age 15 and did not complete that school’s diploma, effectively withdrawing from the German gymnasium system in 1894 . Sources describe this as ...
Melania Knauss began modeling as a teenager in Slovenia and worked in Milan, Paris and New York through the 1990s, but the documentary record is on whether she walked in widely recognized major runway...
Melania Trump is by some profiles to have been signed to Ford Models, but the available materials in this dataset do establish a firm date for such a signing; contemporary accounts instead document mu...
Italy faces multiple, documented human rights failures across migration, detention, Roma housing, prison conditions, and restrictions on protest and defenders; recent reports and rulings show patterns...