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A few more relevant excerpts. These passages touch on interactions between Epstein, Ghislaine, Prince Andrew, and Trump in the 90s. Trump's preexisting ties to shady Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine's father) are also referenced, as is Trump's Miss Universe.

“Enter Jeffrey Epstein” On the morning of 9 February 1999 a small group gathered at Teterboro Airport, just outside New York, ready to catch a Gulfstream jet to Saint Thomas, second largest of the US Virgin Islands. One of the three waiting passengers was the glamorous socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who had fled to New York in 1991 from the UK on a hundred-thousand dollar annual allowance to support her father Robert Maxwell’s business activities. Shortly afterwards, the media baron with longstanding connections to British, Russian and Israeli intelligence had met a sudden and mysterious death whether from suicide, an accident or as his youngest daughter believed, murder. Her personal assistant, Emmy Taylor, waited with her. The third and final member of the group was Prince Andrew. He claimed he had met Ghislaine while she was at Oxford in the 1980s but it is far more likely he had been introduced to her through his ex-wife — both women were well-known on the New York social circuit. Andrew and Ghislaine were good friends — and over the years had been occasional lovers — and through her, the prince had come into the ambit of her boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was seven years older than Andrew and had made a fortune from his own money-management firm, J Epstein &…

… Company, handling $15 billion on behalf of a group of secretive clients, as financial adviser to the billionaire Leslie Wexner, chairman of the lingerie firm Victoria’s Secret, and, as he described himself, a ‘financial bounty hunter’. Epstein had also been involved in a Ponzi scheme soliciting over $500 million in investments which he had then spent on himself. The lantern-jawed New Yorker had stood by Ghislaine after the death of her father, and the subsequent discoveries of Robert Maxwell’s crimes, and, according to bank records, over the period 1999-2007 would give her more than $30 million to restore her to the lifestyle to which she had become accustomed. In return, the well-connected Oxford graduate played a crucial role in Epstein’s complicated but lucrative business and personal life, introducing him to influential contacts and organising a steady stream of young girls to be supplied to the very same men who would then be blackmailed, as well as satisfying his own demanding needs. It has been suggested the connections go further back and that Robert Maxwell, before his death, entrusted Epstein with up to $20 million to hide from creditors. There were also longstanding connections between Maxwell and Donald Trump — they had both bid for the New York Post and often met socially. A product of working-class Coney Island, Epstein owned houses all over the world including a fifty-thousand-square-foot townhouse — the largest in Manhattan — valued at $77 million, an eight-thousand-acre ranch in New Mexico and a home in Palm Beach, two miles from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. It was, however, to his seventy-two-acre private island, sometimes known as Little St Jeff’s, replete with helipad, lagoon and villa served by a staff of seventy, which he had bought the year before for $7.95 million, that the party was now heading by helicopter. The trip was not and never has been listed on any of Andrew’s official schedules because he was not there on official busin…

Andrew returned three days later accompanied by one of the women provided by Epstein for the enjoyment of his guests, Anna Malova, appointed Miss Russia the previous year in order to compete in the 1998 Miss Universe competition, and a close friend of Donald Trump. The Duke of York claims to have only met Epstein earlier that year though it is unlikely that such a close relationship could have been nurtured in a matter of weeks. The truth is Andrew and his ex-wife had known the financier for almost a decade by then. According to Andrew's private secretary, Alastair Watson, the two men had met in 'the early 1990s'. The flight logs of Epstein's plane alone, known as the Lolita Express because it flew so many young girls, reveal the duchess travelled on it with Epstein the previous April. Whatever the exact dates of their first meeting, Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew had by then become business contacts and friends, united by a shared interest in money and sex. In April 1999, Epstein threw Andrew a dinner at his Manhattan townhouse and the following month, according to Miles and Cathy Alexander, a South African couple hired to manage Epstein's Caribbean property, the duke came to the private island 'via helicopter with his bodyguard and a woman in her thirties, who said she was a brain surgeon': 'She was tall, bleached blonde and had big boobs. They shared a room and spent most of their time on windsurfing, sailing or doing other water sports. One day he came back into the house in great mirth, claiming his guest had stepped on a sea urchin and he urinated on her foot as a remedy.

The next day they had a picnic in the grounds of the castle, then just before dinner, which was to be fillet of beef, the duke apparently became incandescent with rage, screaming:

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Here's what NYMag had to say contemporaneously about Anna Malova's "odd" participation in Trump's 1998 Miss Universe pageant: nymag.com/nymetro/news...

NOT RUSSIAN TO GIVE UP HER TITLE It’s nice to know yesterday’s beauty queens aren’t always written off as over the hill. Oddly, Anna Malova was allowed to compete in this year’s Miss Universe pageant even though she was Miss Russia in 1995. According to beauty-world sources, it’s not a coincidence that the stunning Slav, who wound up a finalist in last month’s event, is a friend of Donald Trump, co-owner of the event. Did the Donald pull a few strings on an old friend’s behalf? “That’s something that’s never done,” a Miss Universe spokesperson says. “Russia has a pageant, and she won it fair and square. It’s impossible for Donald to select someone from another country.” Another spokesperson agrees. “That’s not the ethics of the pageant; our company has a great degree of integrity, and that’s not the way we run our company … that kind of stuff doesn’t go on in modern-day network TV.” While the Miss Universe camp insists Malova won the Russian event honestly, Malova’s agent says, “I don’t think she was Miss Russia this year. She was Miss Russia several years ago.” When asked for documentation that Malova – who lives in Trump Tower – won the title a second time (perhaps an occurrence unique to Russian contests), the Miss Universe Pageant headquarters refused to furnish it. Trump was out of the country and could not be reached for comment, and a spokesperson would only say, “I haven’t heard about Trump giving any preferential treatment to Malova.”

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@craigunger.bsky.social writes about all of this in "American Kompromat," excerpted here: www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01...

As Epstein’s operation continued into the 2000s, he began importing girls from the former Soviet Union. After the 1998 Miss Universe pageant, Anna Malova signed up with Karin Models, which had been founded by Epstein friend Jean-Luc Brunel. Known as “le fantôme” (the ghost), Brunel, who also owned MC2 Modeling Agency, was the subject of a 1988 piece that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes in which several young models accused him of groping them sexually, drugging their drinks, and rape. “I really despise Jean-Luc. … This is a guy who should be behind bars,” John Casablancas, the late modeling agent, told journalist Michael Gross, whose book Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women alleges that Brunel repeatedly drugged and raped models. According to Casablancas, Brunel and his pals “were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would invite girls and put drugs in their drinks.” And Casablancas, who married a 17-year-old when he was 50, would have known, having used his stature in the modeling business to indulge in similar activities with young girls at a Look of the Year modeling competition at the New York Plaza Hotel, with his friend Donald Trump, then the hotel’s owner. Trump was closely involved with the contest, in which the average age was 15, and, according to The Guardian, several of the models said that they were required by their agency to have dinner with Trump and Casablancas.

Their friendship frayed beyond repair, Epstein became less discreet as the keeper of Trump’s secrets and was not averse to showing off potentially compromising photos of him and Trump. An associate of Epstein’s who asked not to be identified told me that Epstein showed him one photo of Trump with a topless young girl. In another, the source said, Trump is with two young girls who are said to be laughing as they point out what appears to be a wet spot in an unfortunate location on his pants. The description of the photo suggested that it was a semen stain—but the photos have never been released.

aug 17, 2025, 12:55 pm • 2 1 • view

I'd rather have Trump impeached for treason than for anything else like pedophilia

aug 17, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view

Trump supporters are so far down the rabbit hole, i don't think any revelations are good enough to convince Congress he should be impeached again. If America is to survive the mid terms are the only hope

aug 18, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view

$25,000 😳

aug 16, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view

Thank you.

aug 17, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view

📌

aug 18, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view

Well. Interesting.

aug 16, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 1 • view

OK, I’ve had enough. I couldn’t make it past the suggested list of masseuse’s.

aug 16, 2025, 6:58 pm • 3 0 • view

What's up with that glaring copy-editing failure in the last sentence of the third image? "Sending on…" should obviously be "Depending on…"

aug 17, 2025, 5:55 am • 3 0 • view

TY

aug 16, 2025, 5:22 pm • 56 1 • view

Seems there’s many reasons trump doesn’t want the Epstein files released. Also 🤢🤮🤮

aug 16, 2025, 5:58 pm • 126 6 • view

Like "less than 18" reasons?

aug 16, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view

I've (and many others) have thought for a while that this may be it. Being Epstein's Party Bro/Date Rape Wingman wouldn't be that shocking. But Melania's role in all this may be much more high stakes.

aug 16, 2025, 9:17 pm • 200 21 • view

And more tied to Maxwell. She was not underage and would have presumably been participating willingly and would have been at MAL when this whole thing was going down. They "dated" for what, seven years?

aug 16, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view

Melania favors men with money.

aug 16, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view

Agree

aug 16, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view

I don’t think he cares all that much about Melania. Trump only cares about Trump. Trump is worried that Michael Wolff and perhaps others have evidence of his conduct with children. He would finally lose the evangelicals en masse. Nothing else explains his panicked behavior.

aug 16, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view

Based on the frequency of arrests of evangelicals for the same crimes, they might just make him a pastor.

aug 16, 2025, 9:34 pm • 15 0 • view

If this all gets blown up by whoever greased the wheels for her Einstein visa…

aug 16, 2025, 9:21 pm • 24 3 • view

More like an "Epstein Visa," am I right?

aug 16, 2025, 9:36 pm • 23 1 • view

Guys, the Einstein visa attack is overblown. I almost applied for one myself, and I’m no Einstein; in the end I didn’t because a different pathway was easier to get a green card, but it really wasn’t difficult to get an EB-1 if you had any kind of qualifications and recognition in your field.

aug 17, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view

💯

aug 17, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view

Not inconsistent pattern but different woman. Epstein 1995-1997 & Trump 1998

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Hence her own ridiculous distraction by writing (as if she actually wrote it) her very own letter to Putin.

aug 16, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 0 • view

Melania Knaus’ “Be Best” mantra is eerily similar to the mantra of a major Manhattan escort agency a few years later than when she met Epstein. Did she know Itzler or other NYC pimps from before? She certainly came to know Epstein and Trump. nypost.com/2005/10/31/p...

aug 16, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view

Hookers gonna hook.

aug 16, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view

Classiest First Lady ever 😉

aug 16, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view

She was part of it. There is a reason she was introduced to trump. She knows everything he's done. I wonder how much she participated in it.

aug 16, 2025, 9:27 pm • 5 0 • view

they play her as a victim. She was upstairs having just given birth when iq47 attacked the journalist. Maybe she just doesn't care and was and is aware of the sordid details, if not a willing participant.

aug 16, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view

Not all nude models (the photos are public) are prostitutes. But the percentage of prostitutes among young Eastern European nude models imported from Eastern Europe probably isn't small either.

aug 16, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view

Go back and see what residential addresses Melania had used over the years in NYC and see who else lived at the specific apartments around the same time or immediately before or after her. It may be very informative.

aug 16, 2025, 10:11 pm • 3 0 • view

There was a lot of quasi- prostitution stuff going on with European models in particular at that time. “Sugar babies” with quasi-sugar daddies who put them up in joint apartments with rotating “models” who stopped getting “jobs” and a covered place to sleep if they didn’t play along to get along.

aug 16, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view

It's a grey zone. Tasteless for shure. Illegal maybe sometimes. It says a lot about the character of these man..... Sad superich and still have to pay for sex real alpha man :-)

aug 16, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view

Epstein was Trump’s #1 employee. He’s the one Trump hired to fund him little girls to rape.

aug 16, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view

Just adding in some dates, since the quote has none * 1987: Trump and Epstein meet. They are definitely pals by 1992 * 1996: Melania Knauss enters the US and works (possibly illegally) for Paolo Zampolli's Metropolitan Models. * 1997: Trump is on Epstein's flight logs for the first time 1/

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If Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew's secrets to multiple intelligence services, did he do the same with Trump's secrets? bsky.app/profile/fasc...

aug 17, 2025, 6:45 pm • 6 0 • view

A couple of dates that intersect with your timeline - 1987 is a big coincidence: 1987 - Trump goes to Moscow, arranged by KGB 1987 - Trump meets & becomes friends with Epstein. 1990 - Epstein buys a place in Palm Beach down the street from Trump - a 5 minute drive bsky.app/profile/buck...

aug 17, 2025, 6:49 pm • 12 3 • view

Yes! Look in the overall Jan 6 "Big Timeline", on the 1950s-2019 tab. It doesn't have all the Epstein details, but it has some, and it has early Trump events. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

aug 17, 2025, 7:09 pm • 14 6 • view

Oh. My. God. This document is priceless. Wow, such a valuable resource.

aug 17, 2025, 7:25 pm • 4 0 • view

Always glad to get more sources! Note that religious right actors are mostly kept on a separate document because they operate largely in parallel, with fewer cross-connections. (John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell are cross-connectors, though, and even Thiel has a link to Allan Carlson of the WCF.)

aug 17, 2025, 7:51 pm • 6 2 • view

* 1998, Sep: Zampolli throws Melania a strange, lavish press conference in Paris with Slovenian media flown in. Zampolli says he then introduces her to Trump, but they may have met earlier. * 1998, Dec: Trump starts his own modeling agency, run by Tommaso Buti. In a few months they sign Melania. 2/

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First Lady Melania was a prolific nude model. Donald trumps buddy Jeffrey Epstein extensively recruited models for sex trafficking. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

aug 17, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view

* 2000: Melania files for a green card, EB-1 category (her story) * 2021, Jan: In one of his last acts as president, Trump pardons Tommaso Buti for fraud 3/

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Minor correction - CNN now reports Trump is on Epstein's flight logs as early as 1993. Should add: in May 1997 Trump separated from then-wife Marla Maples (less than a year after Melania Knauss arrived in the US, before they acknowledge meeting). 4/ archive.is/B3aqy

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Paolo Zampolli is central: he says he both discovered Melania and introduced her to Trump. Here's an image of the timeline, and a link to a 2016 NYT interview where he tells his version of the story (which may or may not be true). Correction to above: his agency was "ID Models". 5/ archive.is/AFGzM

Trump / Melania / Epstein timeline 1987: Trump and Epstein likely meet. 1993: Trump is on Epstein's flight logs for the first time 1994-1996: Paolo Zampolli founds ID Models, and meets Slovenian model Melania Knauss 1996, Aug: Melania Knauss enters the US and works (possibly illegally) with Paolo Zampolli as her agent. 1996-1997 Epstein claims he hooked up with Melania after a party 1997, May: Trump separates from 2nd wife Marla Maples 1998, Sep: Zampolli throws Melania a strange, lavish press conference in Paris with Slovenian media flown in. Zampolli says he then (“days later”) introduces her to Trump. 1998, Dec: Trump starts his own modeling agency, run by Tommaso Buti. In a few months they sign Melania. 2000: Melania files for a green card. 2021, Jan: Trump pardons Tommaso Buti for fraud

aug 16, 2025, 10:13 pm • 39 12 • view

First Lady Melania was a prolific nude model. Jeffrey Epstein extensively recruited models for sex trafficking. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

aug 17, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view

This is gonna be great for melania’s lawsuit lofl

aug 16, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view

h/t @jamiepeppard.bsky.social who has been working out the Zampolli-Melania-Trump timeline and its contradictions. 6/

aug 16, 2025, 10:28 pm • 24 2 • view

Coincidentally, I was thinking about filling in some of the blanks on the Paolo Zampolli timeline. At one point, Zampolli was peddling units at Trump Soho for Don Jr & got into a legal wrangle w Howard Lorber at Douglas Elliman who accused him of cheating the firm on commissions.

aug 16, 2025, 10:38 pm • 9 4 • view

Lorber and Paolo Zampolli? Can't find large photo of this pic with Leon Black, that funded Epstein, Erik Prince, and the RDIF.

aug 24, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view

Trump made a Buti call?

aug 16, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view

Reportedly in this book, Epstein said the first time Donald had sex with Melania it was on Epstein’s plane. A year before, Epstein claims he had sex with her. Talk about good friends…

aug 16, 2025, 7:09 pm • 30 8 • view

No amount of gilding hides when the rot is Epstein-deep.

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