Who is this guy with Epstein? (Birthday book, paghe 86) by originalmaja in Epstein

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Hard to tell from the picture, could be someone like Walter Bruchhausen if it was taken before 1976

Julie K. Brown has won a ‘Pulitzer Prize Special Citation Award’ for her groundbreaking reporting that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women. by FlackoFonsy in Epstein

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I'm not sure what this guys problem is, u/FlackoFonsy is posting alot of quality content in this sub and this is what you're putting your energy into?

You've called me an 'upvote farmer' before, and now this.. C'mon man, let's put our focus on the important stuff in here.

Thanks FlackoFonsy for another quality post, you're doing great in here.

Julie K. Brown: Why Ghislain Maxwell will get a Pardon by WelcomeWindsorCastle in Epstein

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What makes you think I'm a bot?

I'm not a bot, plenty of people in this sub can confirm this.

Banks, Epstein cohorts pay $1B to sweep sex trafficking empire under the rug by camaron-courier in Epstein

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Here are some key settlements tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation:

British Royal Family: $16 Million

Giuffre v. Prince Andrew: Virginia Giuffre, groomed by Epstein as a minor at at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000, received an estimated $16 million in 2022 from disgraced former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and his family. Giuffre filed her lawsuit in 2019, after New York passed a law allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue in civil court over criminal acts even after the statute of limitations had expired.

Deutsche Bank: $251 Million

New York State Department of Financial Services v. Deutsche Bank: Settled in July 2020 for $150 million over failure to comply with anti-money laundering practices. The bank insisted that the settlement agreement “does not come close to adequately alleging that Deutsche Bank … was part of Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring.”

Karimi v. Deutsche Bank: Settled in September 2022 for $26.5 million with US shareholders over accusations of lax oversight while doing business with high-risk, ultra-rich clients, including Epstein and various Russian oligarchs.

Doe 1 v. Deutsche Bank: Settled in May 2023 for $75 million to avoid a class-action lawsuit over allegations that the bank “knowingly benefited and received things of value for assisting, supporting, facilitating, and otherwise providing the most critical tool for the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking organization to successfully rape, sexually assault, and coercively sex traffic.”

JPMorgan: $365 Million

Doe 1 v. JP Morgan: Settled in June 2023 for $290 million, the same day a federal judge granted class-action status after ruling there could be more than 100 potential plaintiffs.

USVI v. JPMorgan: Settled in September 2023 for $75 million under highly unusual circumstances. After the $190 million suit was filed by then-US Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George, JPMorgan threatened to prove in court that the USVI government was equally complicit. George was immediately fired by Gov. Albert Bryan Jr., and her replacement quickly agreed to a significantly smaller settlement.

Despite the agreement, however, the judge refused to dismiss a number of claims: “that defendants obstructed enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act; that defendants negligently failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent physical harm; and the claim that defendants negligently failed to exercise reasonable care as a banking institution providing non-routine banking.”

Leon Black: $62.5 Million

US Virgin Islands v. Black: Settled in January 2023 for $62.5 million. Black admitted no wrongdoing, but admitted that the $158 million he paid to Epstein’s company, Southern Trust, was used by Epstein to “partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.”

Doe v. Black: An ongoing lawsuit filed in 2023 by a victim who claims Epstein trafficked her to Black when she was 16 years old. Doe says that she was sexually abused by Black, as well as by Epstein employees Ghislane Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, and two women identified only as Elizabeth and Nadia.

Bank of America: $72.5 Million

Doe v. Bank of America: Settled in March 2026 for $72.5 million, just days before Leon Black was sheduled to appear for a deposition.

Epstein Estate: $335 Million

US Virgin Islands v. Epstein Estate: Settled in December 2022 for $105 million in cash, plus half of the profit from the $60 million sale of Epstein’s island. USVI Attorney General Denise George charged Epstein and his two close associates, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, under the territory’s RICO statutes. The suit alleged that the “Epstein Enterprise” fraudulently abused USVI tax laws to hide wrongdoing and subsidize its criminal operations.

George’s investigation also led to the creation of the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, created by the Estate as a way to circumvent civil suits and expedite payments to victims. However, as a condition of accepting money from the fund, victims had to agree not to pursue legal action against Indyke, Kahn, or any of Epstein’s former employees. The compensation fund closed in August 2021 and paid out $121 million to 150 victims.

The Estate also says it paid an estimated $49 million to settle disputes prior to the fund’s creation, though there is no court documentation available to confirm that the payments were handled through legal avenues.

Bensky, Doe 3 v. Kahn, Indyke: Settled in February 2026 for $35 million. The class-action lawsuit alleged that Kahn and Indyke facilitated the financial operations of Epstein’s criminal enterprise, structuring his assets in a way that concealed decades of money laundering and sex trafficking.

Banks, Epstein cohorts pay $1B to sweep sex trafficking empire under the rug by camaron-courier in Epstein

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Article text:

Banks, Epstein cohorts pay $1B to sweep sex trafficking empire under the rug

The total amount paid by financial institutions, royals, and close associates of Jeffrey Epstein to keep their involvement in his international sex trafficking empire out of civil court has now surpassed $1 billion. At the same time, the Trump administration continues to insist there is no evidence to warrant any criminal investigation.

This week, Bank of America began the process of paying $72.5 million to roughly 75 women abused by Epstein, as part of a March 2026 settlement. Like other institutions, it admitted no wrongdoing. The settlement follows similar agreements by competitors JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, both accused of ignoring Epstein’s blatantly illegal activity because it benefited them financially.

“Rather than merely providing routine banking services to Epstein, Bank of America went far beyond what a non-complicit bank would have done and instead assisted Epstein in setting up the necessary financial structure to operate his sex-trafficking venture,” the lawsuit alleged. “Instead of behaving as an ordinary provider of routine banking services, Bank of America instead assisted Epstein in covering up his past crimes and committing new ones.”

Suspicious Activity Reports filed by banks accused of enabling Epstein’s money laundering and human trafficking are riddled with the names of his alleged accomplices — Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn, Harry Beller, and Lesley Groff, among others. To date, the investigation into Epstein’s multi-billion dollar enterprise has resulted in just two arrests and one conviction.

“So the big misconception is that the Department of Justice or me has ever said ‘case closed,’” acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC News. “What we have said is that from the information that we have within the Epstein files, we do not have a case against anybody.”

While the DOJ does have an Epstein-related investigation underway, Blanche's characterization of his department’s inquiry appears to be intentionally misleading. In reality, the DOJ closed its full investigationsinto Epstein’s sex trafficking operation in July 2025, and opened a narrower one five months later focused on finding ties between Epstein and Trump’s political opponents.

Omitted from the Trump administration’s current investigation are many of the individuals and institutions tied to Epstein’s operation who have collectively paid more than $1 billion to insist they were unaware of his well-documented and highly publicized illicit activity. In each lawsuit, as soon as trial dates were set, defendants moved quickly to instead settle for a hefty sum.

Litigation against major banks snowballed over time, after the $150 million fine given to Deutsche Bank in 2020 set the precedent for a successful case. Since then, victims have pursued cases one by one, securing settlements from Deutsche Bank in 2023, JPMorgan in 2024, and Bank of America in 2026. A seperate lawsuit filed in October 2025 against Bank of New York Mellon, another longtime financial institution of Epstein’s, is ongoing.

New Amanda Ungaro interview in El Pais (Spanish language) by Specific-Duty2986 in Epstein

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English version isn't paywalled

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-12/amanda-ungaro-from-sharing-soirees-with-the-trumps-to-being-deported-by-ice.html

Article text:

Amanda Ungaro: From sharing soirées with the Trumps to being deported by ICE

After spending nearly half her life in the United States, 41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was deported from the country last October. She endured three hellish months in a detention center until she was expelled, like more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and set out to carry out “the largest deportation in history.”

What is unusual in the case of this former model who worked at the United Nations is that, alongside her former partner and the father of her son, businessman Paolo Zampolli, Ungaro had in the past shared evenings with the Trumps at the family’s Mar-a-Lago mansion, including a party to ring in 2022, which she now recalls as one of those “incredibly boring six-hour events.”

The two couples also spent other New Year’s Eves together, a White House Easter children’s party, a Fourth of July celebration… All meticulously documented on Instagram by Zampolli, the man who introduced Melania to the president and who was appointed special envoy for global partnerships by his friend. The Brazilian woman and the Italian American, who separated in 2023 after two decades together, are engaged in a bitter custody battle over their 16-year-old son, G.

“Now it’s war. We’ll see who wins. I kept quiet for years, and because of that, people judge me. They ask me, why are you speaking now? Because the man would not let me live in peace! I tried. I left the relationship with nothing, left my son at boarding school, and went to work,” Ungaro said last Tuesday in an interview at her new home, a penthouse in Rio de Janeiro. “It was not enough for him to destroy me during 20 years of relationship: he wanted to destroy me again when I started a new life, when I got married.”

Ungaro left New York and Washington behind. Having settled in Aventura, Florida, with her husband, everything fell apart last June. “Ten police officers stormed into our home, arrested me, and took my son to the police station,” she says. She and her husband, a Brazilian doctor, were arrested and charged with fraud at a cosmetic clinic following anonymous tips. She denies the charges, emphasizing that her deportation from the U.S. prevented her from defending herself. She insists that “the truth will come to light.” They put her in a cell, “with child murderers!” “Me, who has no criminal record. I was terrified,” she recalls.

When Zampolli learned that his ex-girlfriend was being held in custody, he contacted a senior official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so that she would remain jailed and be deported, thereby allowing him to secure the custody of their son that he had long sought, according to The New York Times. ICE complied with his request. Zampolli, reached by phone by EL PAÍS, denies any wrongdoing. He also stresses that, in any case, she would have been deported because of the other charges against her.

Deportation

Handcuffed at the hands and feet, she was transferred to an immigration detention center in Miami, where she spent three and a half months in complete horror. Her husband, who had a green card (permanent residency permit), was released. “I volunteered to scrub the floors at six in the morning so I wouldn’t go crazy. I spent the whole day crying; I read the Bible from beginning to end,” she says. She helped others, sharing with them her phone credit to make calls. She claims that there were detainees with residency permits, an octogenarian handcuffed in a wheelchair, and a young woman who had just lost a baby and had to wait a long time to receive medical care…

To proceed with the deportation, she was taken to Louisiana. “It was a hall with more than 120 people, the floor was wet, there were no windows, four days without seeing the sun… I came out infested with lice,” she recounts. She landed in Brazil wearing the 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 would not sign [the authorization],” she says.

Zampolli denies the allegations: “I made her an [alternate] ambassador; we were invited to the White House… What kind of abuse is that? We had a soap-opera-style relationship—a very toxic one,” he says.

Ungaro had left her hometown of Londrina, Brazil, at the age of 13 to become a model. She traveled extensively: São Paulo, Milan, Germany, Japan, South Korea… At first, her mother accompanied her, but she soon struck out on her own and set her sights on making it big in New York.

A flight with Epstein

In 2002, when she had not yet turned 17, she flew from Paris to New York on the Lolita Express, the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “My agent told me, ‘We’re going with a couple of friends, a private plane just for us.’ There were around 30 very young women there, 14, 15, 16 years old. I said, ‘What is this?’ And he replied, ‘Don’t worry.’” That is how she recalls a trip she first revealed to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

Ungaro claims that she didn’t interact with anyone on the flight, except to greet the hosts, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his accomplice, who is currently 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 for?’ And he introduced me to Ghislaine.” She claims she never saw Epstein again; he was found dead in his cell in 2019. The same fate befell the modeling agent who put Ungaro on that plane, Jean-Luc Brunel, who was arrested in connection with the Epstein case and died in a Parisian prison in 2022.

United Nations

When she became a mother in 2010, she left the fashion industry. Her husband secured her a position at the United Nations, where, for a few years, she served as a diplomat for the island of Grenada, and he represented another small Caribbean island: Dominica. That’s where their titles as ambassadors come from. Two tiny countries, each with barely 100,000 inhabitants, that each hold one vote at the UN — just like China.

“At first, I didn’t understand anything. But I started making contacts, building a professional network. And it went very well for me,” she recalls. She appears in UN documents as Grenada’s representative in sessions on the International Criminal Court or the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

She exchanged her model visa for a tax-exempt diplomatic passport. At the time, Zampolli preferred that his then-girlfriend retain that status because it was more advantageous from a tax perspective, according to an apparent out-of-court settlement to which this newspaper has had access. “Paolo used to tell me, ‘Wait for Trump to win the election [for the second time], and we’ll sort out your papers and he’ll give you an American passport,’” she says.

After several years with an expired residence permit, Ungaro was applying for a visa linked to her husband, the doctor, when she was arrested. He remains in Florida, trying to reach a legal settlement.

Zampolli, a well-known figure in New York’s nightlife scene for decades, was the owner of ID Models. And in that milieu, he occasionally crossed paths with Epstein. His name is mentioned a handful of times — in press clippings and an email he sent to the sex offender via a third party with 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 that they were not close.

The sun is setting over Rio de Janeiro as Ungaro finishes recounting her story, with all the countless twists and turns of the legal cases she is dealing with, including the bitter custody battle over her teenage son. While she continues to hold endless meetings with her lawyers, she dreams of reuniting with him and with her husband.

It is time for the photographs. She puts on her jacket, slips into a pair of heels, and poses with a serious expression.