# Paolo Zampolli’s Alleged Role in the Trump-Melania Origin Story (5/25/26)

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Podcast: [Beyond The Horizon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-horizon-4355856)
Published: 2026-05-25T18:15:02+00:00
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Paolo Zampolli is presented as a key figure in the Trump-Melania-Epstein timeline because he says he introduced Melania to Donald Trump in 1998 and insists Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with it. Zampolli ran ID Models, helped bring Melania into the U.S. modeling world, and later became closely tied to Trump socially and politically. His account matters because Epstein’s files and related reporting keep pointing back to the modeling industry as one of the major pipelines through which young women were recruited, moved, and introduced into elite circles. Zampolli’s agency, Melania’s early career, Trump’s social world, Jean-Luc Brunel’s modeling network, and Epstein’s interest in models all sit inside the same broader ecosystem, which is why his version of events is now being reexamined. Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian former model and Zampolli’s former partner, adds another layer to that timeline. She has said she was flown on Epstein’s plane as a teenager through Jean-Luc Brunel and saw very young girls around that world. She later worked with Zampolli’s modeling agency and moved through elite social circles connected to Trump before her relationship with Zampolli collapsed into legal and immigration disputes. The central point is that the old, clean explanation — Zampolli introduced Melania to Trump, Epstein had nothing to do with it — now sits alongside a messier record of overlapping modeling networks, Epstein-linked figures, young foreign models, elite parties, immigration leverage, and people who keep showing up in the same circles. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Epstein recruiter's FBI note contradicts Melania story — and may have triggered her panic - Raw Story

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