Melania Trump Heavily Involved in Epstein Scandal
The First Lady has largely avoided the hot topic, but Trump biographer Michael Wolff suggests that she’s acting behind the scenes.
Veteran Trump biographer Michael Wolff claims that First Lady Melania could be the missing link in the ties between President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Wolff told Daily Beast podcast host Joanna Coles that Melania was “very involved” in Epstein’s social circle, suggesting that’s how she met Trump.
“She was introduced to me by a modeling agent, and both of them had ties to Trump and Epstein. That’s how I met her. Epstein knew her well,” Wolff said.
Trump and the future First Lady reportedly first met in September 1998 through Paolo Zampolli, founder of ID Models, who helped Melania immigrate to the United States. Politico reported that Zampolli was connected to Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently in prison. In shocking recordings recorded by Wolff, Epstein claimed that Trump enjoyed sleeping with his friends’ wives and that he first had sex with Melania on his show “Lolita Express.”
Since March 2025, Zampolli has served as Trump’s Special Representative for Global Partnerships. This advocate of the “MAGA” movement keeps a giant oil painting of Trump in his $17 million Georgetown mansion.
“Where does Melania fit into the Epstein case? Where does she fit into this culture of timeless models?” Wolff asked. “So that’s another complex dimension.”
The Trump administration has been the subject of intense media attention regarding the Epstein case, following a July 6 Justice Department and FBI memo concluding that Epstein committed suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019 and that there was no “client list” of wealthy conspirators—a subject of numerous conspiracy theories within Trump’s “MAGA” movement. These revelations have alienated Trump from some of his most ardent supporters, as his administration has sought to distract from the MAGA movement with National Security Adviser Tulsi Gabbard’s allegations that the Obama administration hatched a “treasonous plot” to fabricate intelligence on Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
Last week, the First Lady published a two-page excerpt from her best-selling book, “Melania,” in which she refutes claims that Epstein was involved in her introduction. In it, she writes of meeting Trump at a Kit Kat club in New York City.
Wolff said the First Lady generally hid in the shadows.
“She was never by his side,” Wolff told Coles. “At every one of his court appearances, I remember in my book, an aide coming up to her and saying, ‘Nice try,’ and then laughing.” »
Reached for comment, White House communications director Stephen Cheung sharply criticized Wolff, calling him a “con artist.”
He said: “Michael Wolff is a con artist, a liar, and a proven liar. He constantly invents stories from his deranged and warped imagination, and this is only possible because he suffers from a severe and debilitating case of Trump syndrome, which has corrupted his young brain.”
