Jamie Raskin released a 53-page report Monday morning that calls Donald Trump "an active participant" in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women and names Paolo Zampolli, Trump's model scout and until recently his envoy, a likely co-conspirator in the same ring. Then it names who is covering it up: Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former defense lawyer.
It is a minority staff report. Raskin's Democrats wrote it alone and released it eight days before the vote. The FBI files inside it do not know that.
A girl of 18 or 19 arrived from Poland or Slovenia with no money and no papers. Zampolli signed her, got her a visa and put her in a model apartment on Varick Street with 10 other women. Epstein came to the castings and went through the portfolios. Two women told the FBI that is how he found them.
The first was Epstein's Polish assistant, who visited him in prison more than 50 times and was named in the unfiled 2007 indictment. She told agents Zampolli became her agent at 19, put her on Varick Street, had an affair with her, and that Epstein found her swimsuit shots in a portfolio at Zampolli's agency. The same FBI interview has one line: "Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump."
The second signed with Zampolli at 18, lived on Varick Street, found him "sleazy" and dated him. Then she was sent to give a massage at Epstein's house, where he raped her.
Zampolli, asked about the first woman by the American Prospect in April, answered: "I remember that girl, I don't even remember. She was one of them. If you say so, you know, we have so many models," and by text rejected "any implication of involvement, collaboration, or endorsement."
For 30 years Zampolli has said he introduced Melania to Trump at his party in 1998. Raskin sets it against two women who slept with him at the time: the Polish assistant, and Amanda Ungaro, his partner of 19 years, who told Narativ on camera that Epstein made the match. Melania has denied it. She too lived on Varick Street.
Zampolli lost the envoy job this month. On Sept. 30 a young Republican model sued him in Manhattan and said he drugged and raped her in 2023.
