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Reporting from multiple outlets documents that recruited very young and often foreign models, in some cases as young as 14, and that former models have alleged illegal labor and immigration practices,...
Paolo Zampolli founded ID Model / ID Model Management in New York in the mid-1990s and built it into a boutique agency credited in multiple profiles with representing high‑profile models such as Melan...
Available reporting shows Paolo Zampolli and his companies have been named in multiple civil lawsuits and public allegations — most concretely: a New York lawsuit over a Dominica hotel project tied to...
Reporting in available sources documents Ivanka Trump’s early career as a teenage model signed to Elite Model Management and later business roles in the Trump Organization and her own fashion/jeweled ...
Paolo Zampolli was working as a modeling agent — the owner/manager of a modeling agency — when he met and began representing Melania Knauss in the mid-1990s, and he later introduced her to Donald Trum...
There is no reliable, contemporaneous evidence in the supplied reporting that Elite Model Management formally represented Melania Trump in the 1990s; the sources instead link her to other agencies (Me...
Paolo Zampolli founded ID Models (often referred to in reporting as ID Model Management) in New York in the mid-1990s and built business alliances that blended fashion, real estate and high‑profile pe...
Several well-documented cases show that — from high-profile agencies to sham operations — has repeatedly been the vector for abuse or exploitation of minors: historic allegations around Elite and ; do...
Jeffrey Epstein provided funding and business support to Jean‑Luc Brunel’s modeling ventures — most notably MC2 Model Management — and has documented links that reach back to Brunel’s earlier Karin Mo...