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American modeling agent, scout (1942–2013)
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...
Investigative projects such as OpDeathEaters and Unlimited Hangout present a mix of archival ties, business records, social-network assertions, and journalistic interpretation to argue that modeling a...
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 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,...
The available reporting ties Paolo Zampolli to the same modeling-world orbit that included Jeffrey Epstein and several of Epstein’s known associates, but the documentation in these sources is largely ...
There is no reliable, contemporaneous evidence in the supplied reporting that Elite Model Management formally represented Melania Trump in the 1990s; the sources instead link her to other agencies (Me...
Jeffrey Epstein used his as one of several pathways to access and recruit young women, leveraging relationships with powerful figures and agencies to create opportunities to meet potential victims and...
Several well-documented cases show that — from high-profile agencies to sham operations — has repeatedly been the vector for abuse or exploitation of minors: historic allegations around Elite and ; do...
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...