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Donald and Melania Trump first crossed paths in New York during Fashion Week in 1998, according to multiple contemporary timelines and later accounts; the encounter is widely reported as taking place ...
Available reporting shows claims that Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss) met Donald Trump through Jeffrey Epstein have circulated widely, but major outlets and publishers have retracted or disputed u...
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...
Paolo Zampolli has consistently denied that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Donald and Melania Trump, saying Zampolli himself arranged their meeting at his Fashion Week party; multiple outlets reporting on...
Paolo Zampolli is consistently identified in multiple news accounts and by Mr. Trump as the person who , a claim Zampolli himself has confirmed in interviews and which has been repeated by several out...
Multiple July 2025 accounts present conflicting narratives about how Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein first met: Michael Wolff and several reporters claim Epstein knew Melania through modeling and so...
A persistent allegation—that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania Knauss to Donald Trump in 1998—has circulated in media and books but lacks independently corroborated evidence; it originates largely fr...
Donald Trump and Melania (then Melania Knauss) first crossed paths in New York City in September 1998 at a Fashion Week party hosted by modeling agent Paolo Zampolli — the event has been identified as...
The claim that personally introduced to rests in public reporting largely on secondhand recollections and on Epstein’s own alleged boasts; no contemporaneous, independently verified primary document h...
Most mainstream accounts say Melania Knauss and Donald Trump first met at a New York Fashion Week party in September 1998 — frequently identified as a Kit Kat Club event hosted by Paolo Zampolli — aft...
Donald Trump met Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) in 1998 at a New York City fashion‑week party—most accounts place the encounter at a Paolo Zampolli–hosted event at the Kit Kat Club or a VIP fash...
Melania Trump has publicly denied that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump and denied Epstein’s role in their relationship; multiple media outlets report claims and photos suggesting social...
Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) worked as a fashion model in Europe — notably Milan and Paris — beginning in her late teens, then moved to New York in the mid‑1990s and continued modeling there ....
Available reporting documents photographs and contemporaneous records showing Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) appearing alongside Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump at social eve...
Available reporting shows Paolo Zampolli has long claimed he introduced Donald Trump to Melania at a New York Fashion Week/Kit Kat Club party in 1998, a version repeated by Trump-era spokespeople and ...
Melania Trump has publicly and repeatedly any personal knowledge of or introduction to Jeffrey Epstein, and her legal team has responded to claims otherwise with threats of high‑value defamation suits...
Donald Trump and Melania Knauss first met in 1998 at a New York fashion-industry event and married on January 22, 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida; they later had son Barron in 2006. Multiple contemporane...
Donald Trump and Melania Knauss first met in , according to multiple timelines that rely on Melania’s own account and contemporary reporting; the event is consistently identified as a Paolo Zampolli-h...
Melania Knauss and Donald Trump first crossed paths in New York in September 1998 at a New York Fashion Week party — widely reported to have been hosted by modeling agent Paolo Zampolli at the Kit Kat...
Melania Trump first met Donald Trump in September 1998 at a New York Fashion Week party, where multiple accounts say she was immediately struck by his , and the meeting led quickly to dating . Contemp...