According to a new report from POLITICO, a good pal of former First Lady Melania Trump has fled from Washington D.C. amid quite the scandal involving a woman he was in a relationship with after he sent a series of text messages to various DC power players, accusing said woman of being a prostitute.
Paolo Zampolli, who was actually appointed to the prestigious Kennedy Center board by now ex-President Donald Trump, not all that long ago, used to represent Melania Trump back in the days of her modeling career and is even the person responsible for introducing her to her now-husband Donald back in 1998.
Penning an article about the old Mel Trump friend, POLITICO wrote of Zampolli, “This is the story of what happened when a notorious New York City playboy not named Donald Trump tried to replicate his act in Washington. Few people are more intertwined with Donald and Melania Trump than Paolo Zampolli.”
The publication reports that even after Donald became President of the United States, his wife’s friend Zampolli “spent multiple New Year’s Eves with the first lady and was a frequent visitor at the White House and Mar-a-Lago,” and eventually fully relocated from New York to Washington D.C. in October of 2020.
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“But Zampolli’s high-flying, models-and-bottles lifestyle didn’t go over well with the tight-laced politicians and staffers with whom he sought to make connections,” the report goes on to read, making sure to note that Zampolli had a habit of entertaining “questionable folks” at his mansion in the District of Columbia.
Following Donald’s brutal 2020 presidential election loss to Joe Biden, his wife allegedly convinced him to appoint Zampolli to the board of the venerable Kennedy Center, marking one of her final acts as the First Lady of the United States, according to POLITICO. Zampolli bragged of his “big plans” for the institution, but ultimately none of them ever came to fruition — instead seemingly carrying on with his party boy, NYC style lifestyle with lavish and rambunctious parties and events at his D.C. mansion.
Following Trump’s election loss, an insider described Mel’s friend as “a man without a country” in D.C., and Zampolli ultimately relocated back to New York in July. However, POLITICO reports that, just ahead of his move back home, Zampolli ended a relationship he was having with a woman in D.C. “that threatened to ruin his family still living in New York.”
POLITICO reports that Zampolli, who’s unmarried but has been with his partner for 17 years and shares a son, proceeded to send a series of text messages back in July, featuring screenshots of messages and conversations between himself and said woman to “a dozen lobbyists, business owners and other power players in D.C.’
“Please stay away from my family, you are a pro, all [sic] city knows you are a working girl, since day one you said I had to pay you,” one of Zampolli’s messages to this woman allegedly read.
According to the report, Zampolli’s mass messages attempting to smear the girl garnered no response from D.C. power players, many of who have since stated that they’re glad to see the Melania Trump pal out of Washington D.C.
“He was the continuation of Trump’s Sodom and Gomorrah,” one of Zampolli’s personal friends said. “I told Paolo many times to cool off, this is not New York.”
Zampolli, one of the very few Trump-appointed individuals who haven’t yet been asked to step down from their position, claims that he sent the messages among D.C.’s elites because he “truly felt blackmailed, and that she was somebody who wanted to hurt my family.”
He also went on to claim that the only reason he left D.C. was that his lease expired.
“Why did you get this tip three months later?” Mel’s pal questioned POLITICO. “Because there’s no more free food and free booze. They have nothing to do.”
Responding to Zampolli’s mass messages, the woman who was in a relationship with him responded to his accusations, saying, “Any accusations about me being a ‘working girl’ or that I trade ‘sex for money are entirely false. In no way, shape or form, did I partake in any exchange of sex for money with Paolo Zampolli. We had a brief consensual relationship, but I learned he was dishonest about the nature of his relationship with the mother of his son and no longer wanted to be involved or associated with him. He proceeded to verbally threaten me by saying false things about my character. I blocked him from all forms of communications.”
You can read the full report from POLITICO here.
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