Amanda Ungaro, the Brazilian former model deported from the United States last year amid a custody battle with Donald Trump's special envoy, Paolo Zampolli, has accused him of stealing from his own mother, forcing her out of her home, and placing her in a nursing home.
'Paolo Zampolli is a sick individual. He stole from his mother, kicked her out of her home, and placed her in a nursing home,' Ungaro said in written responses published on 18 April bythe Courier's Epstein investigation project. 'Paolo Zampolli hates women.'
Ungaro, 41, did not provide evidence for the claim.
The interview, translated from Portuguese, covered Ungaro's roughly two-decade relationship with the Milan-born businessman and her allegations about his role arranging visas for foreign models.
Zampolli, 56, serves asTrump's Special Envoy for Global Partnerships. He founded ID Model Management in the 1990s and has long maintained he introduced Melania Knauss to Trump at a 1998 New York fashion party.
Ungaro told the outlet that she first met Zampolli when she was 15 and that he allegedly began pursuing her romantically from that point. She said she was 17 when she arrived in New York from the interior of Brazil, and that Zampolli, more than a decade older, reportedly exploited her isolation from family to pull her into a relationship.
'One night - just before an audition for a fashion show that Paolo didn't want me to do - I was punched in the face,' she said. The injury prevented her from attending,Ungaro claimed.
Their home, she said, felt more like 'a club' than a family household. Ungaro alleged psychological abuse, domestic violence and false imprisonment across the relationship, which lasted roughly two decades before the couple separated in 2023.
Zampolli has previously toldThe Daily Beastthe relationship was 'very difficult' and said he stuck around 'for my son.'
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Source: International Business Times UK
