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Allegations tied to Trump Model Management center on claims that the agency handled underage models who faced sexualization, poor working conditions, and immigration abuses, and that Donald Trump’s as...
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 ...
Trump Model Management (originally T Models) was a New York City–based modeling agency founded in 1999 and long associated with Donald Trump; multiple outlets reported it closed or was being wound dow...
The reporting assembled in the provided analyses identifies as the primary agency directly linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s network, with multiple accounts of Epstein providing financing and access that fa...
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...
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...
Melania Knauss (Melania Trump) has documented ties to the New York and Miami modeling world of the 1990s, and several recent investigative pieces raise questions about overlaps between that industry a...
Available reporting and released documents tie Jeffrey Epstein most directly to one modeling firm: Jean‑Luc Brunel’s MC2 Model Management, which multiple outlets say Epstein funded and helped establis...
Reporting identifies a notable lawsuit by Jamaican model Alexia Palmer against Trump Model Management alleging visa fraud and severe underpayment; a federal judge dismissed the putative class action i...
Melania Trump was represented by multiple modeling agencies over her career in Europe and the United States, with contemporary reporting and agency listings naming among those associated with her at d...
Melania Trump moved from Slovenia to model in Europe (including Paris) and then to New York in the mid‑ to late‑1990s, where she worked on commercial campaigns (for example a 1999 Concord watch ad) an...
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 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...
Trump Model Management—originally launched as T Models—was founded in New York City in 1999 by Donald Trump as a boutique agency tied to his broader pageant and hospitality interests, and it operated ...
Trump Model Management (originally T Models) was founded in 1999 and operated in New York for about 18 years before reports in April 2017 said it was shutting down after senior staff and models defect...
Donald Trump did not provide a documented, direct public response to the specific allegations against Trump Model Management; available contemporary reporting shows the agency closed in April 2017 and...
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...
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...
Trump Model Management (later T Management) was a boutique New York agency founded by Donald Trump in 1999 and closed in April 2017 amid staff departures and controversy . Notable figures tied to the ...