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Reporting shows Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump) worked as a model in Europe and later for agencies tied to Paolo Zampolli and, briefly, Trump’s own agency; multiple outlets note Paolo Zampolli (ID ...
Paolo Zampolli is an Italian-born, New York–based entrepreneur who began in fashion (founding ID Models), moved into real estate and international business, and has held diplomatic roles for Caribbean...
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...
Reporting links Melania Trump’s early modeling career to agents who also moved in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit—most often Paolo Zampolli and, more broadly, modeling agencies associated with Jean-Luc Brunel...
Paolo Zampolli ran ID Models and other modeling ventures that placed Eastern European women in New York and is widely reported to have introduced Melania (then Melania Knauss) to Donald Trump at a 199...
Multiple items in the provided record identify Paolo Zampolli as the founder of ID Models (also styled ID Model Management or ID Model Management Company) in New York in the 1990s; several contemporar...
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...
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...
Paolo Zampolli founded ID Models (also cited as ID Model Management) in New York in the mid‑1990s and used that agency both to launch and to promote models and as a talent pipeline into adjacent busin...
Available reporting shows repeated allegations and insinuations that people tied to Melania Trump’s early modeling career — notably Paolo Zampolli and his agencies — had interactions or overlapping so...
Reporting and public records show Paolo Zampolli and his agency ID Models were involved in civil litigation and industry disputes—most clearly an early-2000s mass lawsuit from models that was dismisse...
Available reporting documents multiple photographic and social-event links between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump (including photos/video from the 1990s and a 1997/1999 Mar-a-Lago/Victoria’s Secret-...
The publicly available reporting establishes that founded in in the mid‑1990s and cultivated high‑profile contacts that put models in the same social circles as wealthy clients, including an oft‑repea...
The publicly released investigative records and reporting establish multiple, document-backed ’s (and affiliated ) and ’s circle — including alleged financial links, visits to Epstein while jailed, sh...
Paolo Zampolli is consistently described in reporting as a Milan-born entrepreneur who founded a New York modeling agency called ID Models (or ID Model Management/ID Management) in the mid‑1990s and r...
No — in the reporting supplied there is no record of Paolo Zampolli admitting under oath that he facilitated travel or accommodations for Jeffrey Epstein; the sources discuss Zampolli’s role in modeli...
Available reporting shows Melania Trump appears in at least one photograph with Jeffrey Epstein and others at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and multiple media accounts and a recent book claim she moved in socia...
Reporting and commentary say Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) worked as a model in Europe in the 1990s with agencies including Karin Models and was later connected to Paolo Zampolli’s agencies (ID...
Contemporary reporting and biographical sources consistently say Paolo Zampolli was a modeling agent who discovered or hired Melania (then Melania Knauss) in Europe and helped bring her to New York in...
Reporting shows disputed claims that people in Melania Trump’s early modelling circle had ties to Jeffrey Epstein, particularly via agent Paolo Zampolli and ID Models; Michael Wolff has said Zampolli ...