First Lady Melania Trump could be the missing link between President Donald Trump and deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to veteran Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
During an interview with Joanna Coles of the Daily Beast Podcast, Wolff asserted that Melania was "very involved" in Epstein's circle of acquaintances and that it was through these acquaintances that she met Trump for the first time.
“She’s introduced by a model agent, both of whom Trump and Epstein are involved with. She’s introduced to Trump that way. Epstein [knew] her well,” Wolff stated.
The president and Melania reportedly met in September 1998 when she was sponsored to immigrate to the US by the founder of ID Models, Paolo Zampolli.
Politico reported that Zampolli had ties to Epstein and the latter's now-detained co-conspirator and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
In shocking audio recorded by Wolff, Epstein claimed that Trump enjoyed “f---ing” his buddies' spouses and even started sleeping with Melania on his “Lolita Express”.
Since March 2025, Zampolli has served as Trump's special representative for international partnerships. The MAGA supporter's $17 million Georgetown mansion boasts a gigantic oil portrait of Trump.
“Where does [Melania] fit into the Epstein story? Where does she fit into this, into this whole culture of models of indeterminate age?” Wolff asked, calling it a new tricky dimension in this.
On July 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice issued a memo in which they said Epstein killed himself while he was under trial for sex trafficking in 2019 and that there is no "client list" of rich co-conspirators.
Melania posted last week a two-page excerpt of her best-selling book, Melania, in which she asserts that Epstein had nothing to do with her introduction to Trump. The book, however, claims that Epstein met Trump at the Kit Kat Club in New York.
Melania typically remains behind the scenes, according to Wolff.
Wolff informed Coles that she was never by his side. “All of those courtroom appearances that she shows up once, I report in my book that one of the aides approached her and she said, ‘Nice try,’ and then laughed.”
Meanwhile, Steven Cheung, director of communications for the White House, called Wolff a “fraud,” as per Daily Beast.
Calling Wolf a “lying sack” and “fraud”, Cheung said, “He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
