The former Brazilian model and ex-ambassador to the United Nations speaks in an interview about her expulsion from the United States, which she attributes to maneuvers by her former partner, and about a flight on Epstein’s plane

This is the article about Amanda Ungaro, the reason behind Melania’s statement.

  • splendid9583@kbin.earth
    20·
    2 months ago

    https://www.newsweek.com/who-is-amanda-ungaro-what-we-know-as-melania-trump-speaks-out-on-epstein-11813227

    The ex-girlfriend of a former modeling agent-turned-presidential special envoy is threatening Melania Trump with legal action while vowing to tear down the first lady’s “corrupt system.”

    Amanda Ungaro, a 41-year-old former model from Brazil, threatened to upend the first lady’s life in a series of intensifying posts on X just hours before Trump on Thursday disavowed all ties to Jeffrey Epstein or knowledge of his crimes.

    • quack@lemmy.zipEnglish
      232·
      2 months ago

      Interesting that she apparently had knowledge that would tear down “corrupt system” before but wasn’t interested in sharing it until the corrupt system turned on her.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        If we only accept evidence with people with pure motives, we’re screwed even worse than we already are. A lot of evidence comes from people with ulterior motives: snitch testimony, plea bargains, defensive blackmail. And the legal system is set up to examine the truth of those claims, keeping in mind the biases of the source.

        And it’s also worth keeping in mind that people going against Trump often face death threats, and seem to have a higher risk of deaths under weird circumstances than the population at large (Brunel and Epstein, for example). So, even if Amanda Ungaro’s motives are pure (which I doubt), there would still be good reasons for her to keep her mouth shut.

        • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Exactly. Same mentality is used when going after drug cartels, and the like. You have to begin by understanding that you’re going to be dealing with people who were OK with what is/was going on. Fortunately, evil people don’t tend to be loyal to one another for very long, and that’s usually their biggest weakness from a “getting what they deserve” standpoint.

      • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        “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.”

        She explicitly addresses this in the article linked. It sounds like Zampolli had her and her husband accused of fraud, then sent to a concentration camp detention center and deported her to get custody of their kid.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        She’s being interviewed in a penthouse in rio de janeiro while simultaneously saying she “has nothing”.

        🙄