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began modeling as a teenager in and built an international portfolio in before relocating to in 1996; she worked in and , did editorial and runway work, and by the late 1990s was working in Manhattan ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
(founded as in February 1999) positioned itself as a talent arm tied directly to ’s business brand and signed as one of its earliest recruits; reporting shows the company worked with many foreign-born...
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 ...
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...
Reporting on which agencies represented Melania Trump in Slovenia and across Europe in the 1990s is consistent but incomplete: multiple sources say she was discovered in Slovenia by photographer Stane...