Hi -- this appeared on Facebook. I don't know who Rachel Hurley is, and there is some stuff in this article I have never heard before (like that Trump had a modeling agency).
Later: people responding to it said it is all true. I hope they are correct, as I would not want to mislead you and I'm not sure how to check this one.
--Kim
Ed's Post
I was going back through my notes on Epstein and something occurred to me - who needs the Epstein files? There's plenty of evidence of Trump's documented exploitation of young girls all over the internet. Everyone's been waiting around for some mythical client list while completely ignoring the mountain of documented evidence that's been staring us in the face for years.
Let's start with Slovenian-born Melania, since her story reveals how this network actually operated. She was scouted by Paolo Zampolli, the same modeling scout who would later introduce her to Trump at a party in 1998. Zampolli ran Metropolitan Models and had extensive connections throughout the industry. Melania worked illegally in the US before getting proper authorization, earning over $20,000 from ten modeling jobs on a tourist visa. Was Zampolli actually coaching his models to flout immigration laws? I'm not sure, but it was pretty much standard practice in this network.
When Trump met Melania through Zampolli's introduction, he was 52 and she was 28 - but he wasn't just meeting a pretty girl at a party. He was accessing a pipeline that Zampolli had spent years developing to bring young, financially desperate foreign women to New York under dubious circumstances.
By 1999, Trump had founded Trump Model Management. The agency recruited girls as young as 14 from around the world, promising them riches and fame while systematically exploiting them. Trump's agency operated using the same visa violations and debt bondage that characterized the other agencies in this network.
Trump Model Management brought over 250 international models to the US on H-1B visas, many of them teenagers. Model Alexia Palmer was recruited at 17 and promised $75,000 annually, but received less than 5k over three years after the agency took 80% of her earnings as "expenses." She described it as being treated "like a slave." Multiple former Trump models confirmed they were coached to work illegally on tourist visas, just like Melania.
The head of Trump Model Management was Corinne Nicholas, who served as a judge for Trump's Miss Universe pageants. A modeling contract with Trump's agency was literally offered as a prize to winners of Miss Teen USA. Trump was using his teen pageants to recruit girls directly into his modeling agency. It's the same playbook John Casablancas used with his "Look of the Year" contests.
At the 1991 Elite "Look of the Year" contest, Trump served as a judge alongside Casablancas while teenage girls as young as 14 competed. Multiple Elite models described being required to attend private dinners with Trump and Casablancas, with one recalling Trump coming backstage repeatedly while they were changing. The Guardian investigated this contest and found it was systematically used to exploit vulnerable teenage models.
Casablancas wasn't subtle about his predatory behavior. He openly dated teenage models and bragged about his relationships with girls like 16-year-old Stephanie Seymour. Trump was right there beside him.
The network extended beyond Elite. Jean-Luc Brunel's MC2 Model Management was directly funded by Epstein to the tune of about $1 million. Brunel frequently visited Epstein in prison and flew on his plane many times. The 1988 CBS "60 Minutes" investigation had already exposed Brunel's pattern of drugging and sexually assaulting American models, yet he continued operating for decades with Epstein's backing.
The financial connections are thoroughly documented. Court testimony shows Epstein funded MC2's launch in 2004-2005, and the agency name itself was a reference to Einstein's equation with the missing "E" standing for Epstein. Brunel used Epstein's Manhattan apartments to house overseas models - a perfect setup for trafficking vulnerable young women under the guise of legitimate business.
Brunel was exposed on national television in 1988, yet continued operating until his arrest in 2020. Casablancas faced allegations for decades but died peacefully in 2013 without facing justice. Epstein got a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 and kept operating until 2019. The system protected these men at every turn because they had money, connections, and the veneer of legitimate business.
When you connect all these dots, the pattern is undeniable. Trump didn't just party with Epstein - he built his own version of what Epstein and Brunel were doing. Trump Model Management was a documented trafficking operation that recruited teenage girls, brought them to the US under false pretenses, trapped them in debt, and provided access to wealthy men.
All four men attended the same modeling contests, judged the same competitions, and hosted private events with teenage contestants. They traded girls across state and international borders using legitimate business infrastructure. Giuffre testified that Epstein bragged about sleeping with "over 1,000 Brunel girls," while multiple witnesses described how Brunel would "farm out" models to Epstein and other associates.
Trump's documented behavior around teenage contestants backs this up. Multiple Miss Teen USA contestants reported that Trump would walk into their dressing rooms while girls as young as 15 were changing. He bragged about this on Howard Stern's show, saying he could "get away with things like that" because he owned the pageants.
The evidence has been hiding in plain sight for years. Court documents from Trump Model Management show systematic visa fraud. Victim testimony places Trump at Epstein's parties with underage girls. Multiple teenage pageant contestants describe Trump's predatory behavior. Former models describe working conditions that meet the definition of human trafficking.
The modeling industry provided perfect cover for this network because it had legitimate business fronts. The pattern of exploitation - recruiting vulnerable young girls with promises of fame, trapping them through visa violations and debt, providing access to wealthy men - was consistent across Elite, MC2, and Trump Model Management. Desperate teenage girls from poor backgrounds would do anything for a chance at modeling success, and these men systematically abused that desperation.
While everyone chases phantom client lists, the documented evidence sits in court filings, victim testimony, and public records. The cover-up isn't happening in some government vault - it's happening every time we pretend this evidence doesn't exist.
Trump wasn't Epstein's friend. He was Epstein's business associate in the systematic exploitation of vulnerable young women. The modeling agencies weren't legitimate businesses that happened to have some bad actors - they were trafficking operations disguised as legitimate businesses. And Trump didn't just know about it - he built his own version of it.
The real scandal isn't just what we already know - it's our collective decision to ignore it. When agencies promise specific salaries on federal visa applications but pay a fraction of that amount, that's federal fraud - prosecutable today. When they coach foreign nationals to work illegally on tourist visas, that's immigration fraud. When they take 80% of a model's earnings while controlling their housing and movements, that meets the federal definition of labor trafficking. The tools to prosecute these crimes already exist.
Trump's modeling agency was a documented case study in exploiting vulnerable young women - visa fraud, wage theft, debt bondage, and systematic targeting of financially desperate foreign teenagers. The choice isn't between exposing Trump and protecting young women - it's between using what we already know to fix a system that's still failing vulnerable people, or continuing to chase dramatic revelations while the exploitation continues in plain sight. The evidence to act is already on the public record. The question is whether we're willing to use it.
Trump may never face any consequences for his behavior, but that doesn't mean we can't protect people from the next version of him.
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