A few months after their friendship began, in a November 2016 email included in the FBI files, Epstein sent Chopra a link to a Daily Mail article about a “troubled woman” who claimed that she had been assaulted by Donald Trump when she was 13 years old, at a party hosted by Epstein. (The article reported that those allegations had not been substantiated, and that the woman’s lawsuit against Trump was dismissed.)

“Did she also drop civil case against you?” Chopra asked. Epstein responded with one word: “yup.” Chopra said: “good.”

Over the following year, the two continued to exchange greetings, ideas and invitations. In February 2017, Chopra invited Epstein by email to attend a course the following month called “Journey Into Healing.” Chopra added that he would also be leading a weeklong retreat that June at a Canadian resort — he wrote “Bamf,” presumably meaning Banff, Alberta — and said, “The girls might enjoy it.”

In another email a few days after that one, Chopra invited Epstein to “Come to Israel with us” to “Relax and have fun with interesting people.” He suggested that Epstein might “use a fake name” and “Bring your girls.”

Yes, sorry, it’s Ari, but the dude is one of the few keeping the story alive and ignoring the distractions.

The House Oversight Committee is escalating its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, hearing from a former corrections officer who was on duty the night of Epstein’s death in a closed-door interview.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60386121

Epstein Scar | New LEGO Video from IRAN

This stuff is happening on other parts of the internet, and I think it is highly effective to engage a younger generation, and actually attempts to take over the narrative rather than the reactionary kneejerk journalism (and reposting here on Lemmy) of the "hE SaId WhAt?" brigade.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0E9-eArkTI

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46605965

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/photos/p/1090554/judge-unsealed-an-alleged-jeffrey-epstein-suicide-note

“They investigated me for month -- found nothing!!!” said the short note, which is hard to decipher in some places. “It is a treat to be able to choose” the “time to say goodbye,” the note continues. “Watcha want me to do -- Bust out cryin!!”

“NO FUN,” the note concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

Few people had known about the note until Tartaglione, a former police officer serving a life sentence for killing four people, mentioned it last year on writer Jessica Reed Kraus’ podcast.

Tartaglione claimed he discovered the note in a book after Epstein was found on the floor of their cell at a Manhattan federal jail on July 23, 2019, with a strip of bedsheet around the financier’s neck. That was about three weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell in what authorities concluded was a suicide.

“They investigated me for month -- found nothing!!!” said the short note, which is hard to decipher in some places. “It is a treat to be able to choose” the “time to say goodbye,” the note continues. “Watcha want me to do -- Bust out cryin!!”

”NO FUN,” the note concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

It is unclear who wrote the note Tartaglione claimed to have found. It wasn’t mentioned in the lengthy government reports examining the circumstances of Epstein’s death, nor did it surface in the Justice Department’s recent release of files on the late financier.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46053138

A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York

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In today's episode, we examine the recent file releases related to Jeffrey Epstein and his celebrity, political and business connections.

An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. It’s now locked in a courthouse.

A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.

A cellmate said he discovered the note in July 2019, after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident but weeks later was found dead in the jail.

The note was eventually sealed by a federal judge as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, according to documents and interviews. That means investigators scrutinizing Mr. Epstein’s high-profile death lacked what could have been a key piece of evidence.

On Thursday, The New York Times petitioned the judge to unseal the note, which said it was “time to say goodbye,” the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, recalled. While Mr. Tartaglione mentioned the note on a podcast last year, the scrawled message has remained hidden from public view, even at a time of unprecedented transparency around the government’s investigations into Mr. Epstein. Since December, the Justice Department has released millions of pages of documents related to the sexual predator.

Archive: https://archive.is/y0z8V

~~both archive.org and removepaywall.com are getting blocked by the bastion of free speech and extraordinary journalism. Please let me know if you know better mirror sites for these.~~

April is sexual assault awareness month... don't ever shut up about the files

“A man actually claims that he met Jeffrey Epstein, was brought to the ranch, was drugged, and he describes in detail a scene in which multiple young men were r---- at the ranch in front of him after he was drugged,” Stansbury said.

“You hear about Jeffrey Epstein's penchant for minors and for young women, but not men, we haven't heard that before,” Brown said.

Also appearing on the program was Chauntae Davies, an Epstein survivor who told CBS News in 2019 that she was raped at Zorro Ranch “at least twice," and says she was abused by Epstein and his accomplices between 2001 and 2005. She was also photographed in 2002 at 22 years old giving a massage to former President Bill Clinton.

Speaking with Brown, Davies said that she remembered hearing “rumors” at the ranch about the burial of two women or girls that were killed by “strangulation during rough, fetish sex,” and that she recalled conversations about a disturbing incident potentially involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime accomplice who’s currently serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/vid/p/1068620/we-investigated-epsteins-emails-and-his-billionaire-network-epstein-secretly-invested-mi

From Peter Thiel to Reid Hoffman to Leon Black, the Epstein class is still here, it's bipartisan, and it's extremely powerful.

In the wake of the newly unsealed Epstein files, a special Truth Commission in New Mexico is finally investigating the horrific crimes and alleged cover-ups centered around the disgraced predator's remote Zorro Ranch. Survivors and local officials demanded answers as to why federal authorities seemingly ignored terrifying tips of deaths, human trafficking, and a twisted designer baby project at the forgotten desert compound.

Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies is deeply haunted by Zorro, and tells 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown it was the "most eerie" of all the places she was trafficked to. Davies is now working to rebuild her life, dedicating her time to animal rescue charities in Texas, like Jack Jacks Pack Street Dog Rescue.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46071947

A year on from the death of Virginia Giuffre, the world is still unpacking the consequences of the files she helped bring to light.

Her story sparked a re-examination of accountability for those sitting in some of the world's most powerful seats with ties to convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

The fallout continues to be felt around the world. A prince stripped of his title. Veteran politicians have stepped down. A former prime minister faces criminal charges, and business executives are no longer in plum roles with multi-billion-dollar brands.

Three of the 27 names listed below have been arrested.

Zampolli, a former head of a modeling agency in the ’90s, claims that he introduced Donald and Melania Trump and helped the first lady obtain a work visa in the mid-’90s. He even told the Daily Mail he was prepared to testify before Congress following Melania’s public denial earlier this month of close connections to Jeffrey Epstein, including that it was the convicted sex offender introduced her to Donald Trump. Melania Trump called for a congressional hearing to allow survivors of Epstein’s abuse to testify.

Zampolli has his own ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. He and Epstein discussed and later failed in their bid to purchase the agency Elite Model Management in 2004, and according to the Daily Beast, became a partner of Maxwell’s environmental charity and nonprofit organization, the TerraMar Project, that described itself as focused on protecting oceans. Maxwell launched the project in 2012 but the organization was dissolved in December 2019, following Epstein’s arrest in July of that same year.

Sex-criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein housed women who say he abused them in several London flats in the years after UK police decided not to investigate him, the BBC can reveal.

We found evidence of four flats, rented in the affluent borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in receipts, emails and bank records contained within the Epstein files. Six of the women housed in them have since come forward as victims of Epstein's abuse.

Many of them - from Russia, eastern Europe and elsewhere - were brought to the UK after the Metropolitan Police decided not to investigate Virginia Giuffre's 2015 allegation that she had been a victim of international trafficking to London.

The Met said it followed "reasonable lines of inquiry" at the time, interviewing Giuffre on multiple occasions following her complaint and co-operating with US investigators.

Some of the women housed in the London flats were coerced by Epstein to recruit others into his sex trafficking scheme, as well as regularly transported to Paris by Eurostar to visit him, according to emails in the files.

Emphasis mine. Probably more cup switching, feigned accountability and misdirections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration over the past year.

The audit from the inspector general’s office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted materials in preparation for their release, as well as its process for addressing concerns that arose after the files were made public, when Epstein survivors complained that personal information about them had been disclosed.

The review will revisit the department’s staggered and uneven release of millions of records from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a process that exposed it to accusations that it was attempting to protect President Donald Trump, who decades ago was friendly with the financier. It marks by far the watchdog office’s most significant effort since Trump took office for a second time to scrutinize the actions of a department that has been riven by tumult, including mass firings of employees and allegations of politicization of investigations.

The audit will be overseen by Don Berthiaume, a former career attorney in the department’s watchdog office who was formally nominated by Trump this week to serve as inspector general.

PM Starmer is also facing calls to resign after it was revealed that his US envoy was appointed despite a failed security check

Britain’s top foreign ministry official will leave his post after Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper lost confidence in him, a source said on Thursday, following a row over the security vetting of Peter Mandelson.

The disclosure of the vetting failure has intensified pressure on Starmer over his appointment of Mandelson, Britain’s former US ‌ambassador, who is under police investigation for allegedly leaking government documents to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and has led to renewed calls for the prime minister to resign.

This is the article about the woman who reportedly would have driven Melania to do her preemptive presser.

Archive (Spanish): https://web.archive.org/web/20260412063315/https://elpais.com/america/2026-04-12/amanda-ungaro-de-compartir-veladas-con-los-trump-a-ser-deportada-por-el-ice.html

English translation below

After spending practically half her life in the United States, 41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was expelled from the country last October. She had endured three hellish months in a detention center before being deported — as have more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and breathlessly announced "the largest deportation in history." What makes the case of this former model who worked at the UN remarkable is that, through her ex-partner and father of her son, businessman Paolo Zampolli, Ungaro had in the past shared evenings with the Trumps at the family mansion in Mar-a-Lago, including the party to ring in 2022, which she now recalls as one of those "incredibly boring six-hour events."

Both couples shared other New Year's Eves, a children's Easter party at the White House, a Fourth of July celebration… All promptly documented on Instagram by Zampolli, the man who introduced Melania to Trump and was appointed special envoy for global alliances by his friend. The Brazilian and the Italian-American, who split in 2023 after two decades together, are locked in a bitter custody battle over their son, G., age 16.

"Now it's war. We'll see who wins. I kept quiet for years and that's why people judge me. 'Why are you speaking up now?' they say. Because the guy wouldn't let me live in peace! I tried. I left the relationship with nothing, enrolled my son in a boarding school, and went to work," Ungaro says last Tuesday in an interview at her new home, a penthouse in Rio de Janeiro. "It wasn't enough for him to destroy me during 20 years of a relationship — he wanted to destroy me again when I started a new life, when I got married."

Paolo Zampolli, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and Amanda Ungaro, in an image shared by Zampolli to celebrate July 4, 2020. — Paolo Zampolli's IG

Ungaro left New York and Washington behind. Already settled in Aventura, Florida, with her husband, everything blew up last June. "Ten police officers burst into the house, arrested me, and took my son to the station," she recounts. She and her husband, a Brazilian doctor, were arrested and charged with fraud at an aesthetic clinic following anonymous complaints. Ungaro rejects the accusations and emphasizes that her expulsion from the U.S. prevented her from mounting a defense. She insists that "the truth will come to light." They put her in a cell "with child murderers!" "Me — someone with no criminal record. I was terrified," she recalls.

When Zampolli learned his ex-girlfriend was in custody, he contacted a senior official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ensure she remained jailed and was deported, so he could obtain the long-sought custody of their child, according to The New York Times. ICE complied with his wishes. Zampolli, reached by phone by EL PAÍS, denies any wrongdoing.

Deportation

Shackled hand and foot, the woman was transferred to an immigration detention center in Miami. Three and a half months of horror began. Her husband, who held a green card (permanent residency permit), was released. "I volunteered to mop the floor at six in the morning so I wouldn't lose my mind. I spent my days crying. I read the Bible from cover to cover," she says. She helped others, sharing her phone credit with them. She claims there were detainees who held residency permits, an octogenarian shackled in a wheelchair, a girl who had just lost a baby and was slow to receive medical attention…

For the deportation to proceed, she was taken to Louisiana. "That place was a ward with more than 120 people, a wet floor, no windows, four days without seeing the sun… I came out infested with lice," she recounts. She landed in Brazil wearing a prison uniform, with nothing — not even a cell phone. "I spent a month depressed in a room." Ungaro regrets not having left Zampolli sooner. And not having reported him. "I was living at the mercy of a sick psychopath who abused me psychologically, sexually, and physically. I asked many people for help. No one ever helped me. But I couldn't leave without my son, and he wouldn't sign [the authorization]." Zampolli denies the accusations: "I made her an ambassador [alternate], we were invited to the White House… What kind of abuse is that? We had a soap-opera relationship, very toxic," he says.

Ungaro poses in her apartment in Rio de Janeiro. — Leonardo Carrato Ungaro had left her hometown, Londrina, Brazil, at age 13 to become a model. The trips kept coming: São Paulo, Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea… At first her mother accompanied her, but she soon became independent and set her sights on making it in New York.

Flight with Epstein

In 2002, when she was not yet 17, she flew from Paris to New York on the Lolita Express, the private plane of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. "My agent told me: 'We're going with a couple of friends, a private plane just for us.' There were about 30 very young women, 14, 15, 16 years old. I said: 'What is this?' And he replied: 'Don't worry.'" That's how she remembers a trip first reported by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

Ungaro says she didn't interact with anyone on that flight, aside from greeting the hosts, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his accomplice, who is serving a sentence for sex trafficking. "Amanda, let me introduce you to Jeffrey," her agent said. "He came over and asked: 'Where are you from? How old are you? Which modeling agency do you work with?' And he introduced me to Ghislaine." She says she never crossed paths with Epstein again; he was found dead in his cell in 2019. The same fate befell the modeling agent who brought Ungaro onto that plane, Jean-Luc Brunel, who was arrested in connection with the Epstein case and died in a Paris prison in 2022.

In New York, the Brazilian continued her career and met Zampolli, who owned a modeling agency.

United Nations

When she became a mother in 2010, she left the fashion world. The businessman secured her a position at the United Nations, where for several years she served as a diplomat for the island of Grenada, while he represented another small Caribbean island: Dominica. That's where their ambassador titles come from. Two tiny countries, each with barely 100,000 inhabitants, that each hold one vote at the UN — the same as China.

"At first, I didn't understand anything. But I started making contacts, building a professional network. And I did very well," she recalls. She appears in UN documents as Grenada's representative at sessions on the International Criminal Court and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

She exchanged her modeling visa for a diplomatic passport with tax exemptions. At the time, Zampolli preferred that his then-girlfriend keep that status because it was more fiscally advantageous, according to an apparent out-of-court agreement to which this newspaper has had access. "Paolo used to tell me: 'Wait for Trump to win the election [a second time], and we'll sort out your papers and he'll get you an American passport,'" she says.

After several years with an expired residency permit, Ungaro was processing a visa tied to her husband, the doctor, when she was arrested. He remains in Florida, trying to reach a legal settlement. Brazilian Ungaro, the Trumps, and Zampolli — now a presidential envoy — along with the son over whose custody they are fighting, in an image taken at the White House and shared by Zampolli in 2019. — Paolo Zampolli's IG

Zampolli, well known for decades in New York nightlife, was the owner of ID Models. And in that world, he occasionally crossed paths with Epstein. His name appears a handful of times — in press clippings and an email he sent to the sex offender through a third party containing a link to a luxury magazine — among the millions of documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Zampolli told The New York Times they were not close.

The sun is setting over Rio de Janeiro as Ungaro finishes recounting her story, with its countless twists across the legal cases she's dealing with, including the fierce custody battle over her teenage son. While she holds endless meetings with her lawyers, she dreams of reuniting with him and with her husband. It's time for photos. She puts on a jacket, slips on some heels, and poses with a serious expression.

By Naiara Galarraga Gortázar — EL PAÍS