Melania’s Response May Be About Connections to Her Former Friend and Model Amanda Ungaro

A woman named Amanda Ungaro was replying to Melania’s archived X account early on Thursday morning with combative and increasingly threatening posts.

Hours later, Melania was on television disavowing any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or knowledge of his crimes.

Ungaro is a Brazilian former model and Epstein survivor who came to the U.S. around 2002 at the age of 16 or 17, flying to New York on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane. Ungaro’s modeling agent was Jean-Luc Brunel, who was accused of procuring young girls for Jeffrey Epstein. Brunel killed himself in jail while awaiting trial.

Amanda Ungaro became the girlfriend of Paolo Zampolli, an Italian-American modeling agent. Zampolli claims to have introduced Melania and Donald at a party in 1998, confirmed by the Trumps. Zampolli and Ungaro were together for nearly two decades, and were often photographed together at various diplomatic events, with many guests in the Trump orbit. The couple sat together at Melania’s table at Trump’s first inauguration dinner.

Zampolli is currently serving as Trump’s “special envoy for global partnerships,” and has been mentioned in the Epstein files multiple times.

Around 2021-2023, it was discovered that Zampolli was texting a sex worker, and Ungaro left him, moved to Florida, and married a doctor from Brazil.

Zampolli and Ungaro had one son together, who became the epicenter of a custody battle as Ungaro and her Brazilian doctor husband were arrested in Miami on charges of fraud at a medical spa. Zampolli allegedly spoke with an ICE official and reported Ungaro was in the country on an expired Visa, and she was quickly deported to Brazil. The Miami ICE field office was tipped off that the case was close to someone at the White House. Zampolli denies the allegations, and DHS denies political interference.