According to former Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, First Lady Melania Trump once worked as an escort for the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and met so-called “President” Donald Trump via an introduction by Epstein.
The Daily Beast reports that Ungaro made her claim in a recording she posted (and later deleted) on social media Monday night.
“Let’s tell the public you never was the one introducing Melania to Trump. It was Jeffrey Epstein, as she was escort of Jeffrey Epstein. That’s how she met Donald Trump,” Ungaro claims in the WhatsApp recording.
“And I know, because I was with you 20 years and you always told me it was not you—it was Jeffrey Epstein,” she added.
Ungaro is the ex-wife of modeling agent-turned-presidential envoy Paolo Zampolli, who strongly denied the allegations against Mrs. Trump, saying in a statement, “I’m truly concerned for her (Ungaro’s) health, and I think she truly needs some therapy.”
The latest accusation from Ungaro is in stark contrast to the comments Mrs. Trump made earlier this year when she told reporters, “I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband, by chance, at a New York City party in 1998. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in detail in my book, MELANIA.”
“The first time I crossed paths with Epstein was in the year 2000, at an event Donald and I attended together. At the time, I had never met Epstein and had no knowledge of his criminal undertakings,” she added.
In response to Melania’s denials, Ungaro noted in April, “She knows that I witnessed highly compromising interactions over the course of 20 years.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Justice Department, under the leadership of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, continues to withhold documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, in direct violation of a federal law passed in November of last year.
The White House has not commented on Ungaro’s now-deleted post.
