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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...
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...
Available reporting identifies multiple visas tied to Melania Trump’s move to and stay in the United States but does not provide a single, fully documented timeline of every visa type with issuance da...
Documents obtained and reporting by the Associated Press show Melania Trump was paid for 10 U.S. modeling jobs totaling $20,056 that took place in the seven weeks before she had “legal permission to w...
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...
Public reporting identifies a small set of agencies and managers tied to Melania Knauss’s modeling work in the 1990s: an early Milan contract with RVR Reclame, representation or sponsorship by Paolo Z...
Melania Trump’s modeling career began in Slovenia and expanded to Milan, Paris and New York; reporting and biographies say she worked runway and editorial jobs and associated with major photographers ...
Reporting from the Associated Press and legacy outlets documents that Melania Trump was paid for 10 U.S. modeling jobs worth $20,056 during a seven‑week period in 1996 before a work visa was issued, w...
worked with several modeling agents and firms in the 1990s: European agencies early in her career, ’s New York operation (often described as ) which helped bring her to in 1996, and she was later list...
Melania Trump worked as an international fashion model in the 1990s and 2000s and during that period appeared in magazine shoots and campaigns and worked with prominent photographers such as Antoine V...
Melania Knauss built an international modeling résumé in the 1980s–early 2000s that included agency signings in Milan and work in Paris and New York, magazine covers (including Vanity Fair Italia and ...
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...
Paolo Zampolli — a Milanese modeling agent — has repeatedly said he hired Melania Knauss and “secured” a work visa for her to come to the United States in the mid‑1990s; contemporary reporting and lat...
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-...
, an Italian-born agent who worked with and founded in in the mid-1990s, was a visible conduit for Eastern European talent into the market and played a practical role in some high-profile arrivals suc...
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...
Melania Knauss began her modeling career in Europe with Milan-based agencies — notably RVR Reclame — and later worked with high-profile agents in New York, including Paolo Zampolli’s Metropolitan Mode...
Contemporaneous interviews and agency statements from the 1990s portray Melania Trump as a working fashion model who took standard commercial bookings in Europe and, later, the U.S., including editori...
The reporting assembled identifies named agencies and agents tied to Melania Knauss’s European modeling phase—most prominently Milan’s RVR and Paolo Zampolli’s Metropolitan Models—but does not produce...
Melania Trump was clearly associated in Paris with Metropolitan Models through agent Paolo Zampolli, who scouted and later sponsored her move to New York in the mid‑1990s . Beyond that firm, reporting...