Melania Trump’s hastily called press briefing last month to emphatically deny any relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein elicited a flurry of speculation about who might be holding information that the First Lady doesn’t want to come out.A statement provided to the FBI and federal prosecutors by a former model who worked for Epstein as a recruiter for his sex trafficking enterprise appears to shed some light on what Melania is trying to keep under wraps.The entry in the Epstein files, mentioning Melania and Donald by name, focuses on a man at the center of the modeling industry that brought the Trumps together with Epstein in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who reportedly arranged a visa for then-Melania Knauss to come work in the United States, now serves as special envoy for the president for global partnerships under the auspices of the U.S. State Department.The seamless connection between the models represented by Zampolli — many of them recruited from abroad to work in the U.S. on visas — and the women who became Epstein’s victims and enablers is glaringly illustrated by Adriana Mucinska, a Polish-born model who worked for both men.Mucinska described meeting Epstein through Zampolli in a 2019 interview with the FBI and federal prosecutors in West Palm Beach, Florida, less than a week after Epstein’s July 2019 arrest on charges of sex trafficking of minors.Mucinska, also known as Adriana Ross, was described in a 2020 New York Times investigation as one of four “recruiters” who worked under Ghislaine Maxwell to procure teenage girls for massage appointments, which often turned into sexual assaults. Mucinska was reportedly named as a “co-conspirator” and granted immunity from prosecution in Epstein’s widely criticized 2008 plea bargain. According to interview notes reviewed by Raw Story, Mucinska told investigators that she removed computers from Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, mansion in 2005 at his request.But before Mucinska knew Epstein, she knew Zampolli.A typed report of Mucinska’s July 2019 interview in West Palm Beach with two unnamed federal prosecutors and an unnamed FBI agent, compiled in an official FBI document and released in the Epstein files, indicates that Mucinska was interviewed as part of a “proffer agreement,” which typically provides immunity or leniency to an individual with information about a crime in exchange for complete truthfulness.That FBI report states that an individual whose name is redacted put Mucinska “in contact with an agent named Paolo Zempoli [sic] who worked with ‘ID Models,’" and that “it was organized for” Mucinska “to go to New York to model.” The report states that Mucinska “lived in a model’s apartment because she did not have the funds to pay for her own apartment. The apartment accommodated 10 people and was on the same street as the model agency on Varick Street.” It states that Mucinska “had an affair with the agent” and that “Zempoli [sic] was trying to buy Elite Models with Epstein.”The next sentence in the typed FBI report of Mucinska’s interview based on her proffer agreement states: “Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump.”That sentence alone would be a bombshell revelation, except that separate handwritten notes from the same interview confuse by giving contradictory information, suggesting that Mucinska told investigators that it was Zampolli who introduced Donald and Melania, as Zampolli has always maintained.Those notes only reference the person who made the introduction as “he." The notations preceding and immediately following it suggest that the “he” is Zampolli, considering that the document says, “he trying to buy Elite Models w/ JE” and “think he ambassador now.”Melania has emphatically denied that Epstein played a matchmaking role, and during her April 9 press conference directly stated, “Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump.”But another statement by Melania later in the press conference is clearly disproven by Mucinska’s FBI proffer interview.“My name has never appeared in court documents, depositions, victim statements, or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter,” the first lady said.During the press conference, Melania brushed aside an email she sent to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s partner, on Oct. 23, 2002 — roughly around the same time that Mucinska arrived in the U.S. — as a “trivial note.”Melania also described the email, which includes the header, “HI!” as a “polite reply.” But the documents released by the Department of Justice clearly show that it was Maxwell who made a “polite reply” to Melania, and that Melania initiated the exchange.Emails to the Office of the First Lady seeking comment for this story went unreturned.The FBI referred Raw Story’s questions about the discrepancy between the two documents to the Department of Justice.