07/28/2026
New info about Blanche, Zampoli, and
Andrew Tate who said, “EVERYONE wants to be friends with the pimp. Doubt me? EPSTEIN HAD ACCESS TO P***Y. Look at his fu***ng friends list.”
Why is America not outraged?
Two of the world's most notorious s*x predators are feted in Washington by one of Trump's top aides and no one blinks an eye
JULIE K BROWN
JUL 28
“I’m very close with the Trump family. I know them well,” — accused child s*x trafficker Andrew Tate.
U.S. attorney general wannabe Todd Blanche finally sat down with Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors on July 16. He didn’t do this because he wanted to lay the groundwork to re-open an investigation into Epstein’s s*x trafficking network — or to even acknowledge that the victims deserved to be heard.
He only met with them because he was forced to by a Republican senator who told Blanche he wouldn’t approve his appointment as U.S. attorney general unless he did so.
A year ago, Blanche, one of our nation’s top federal prosecutors who also worked as a personal attorney for President Donald Trump, met for nine hours with Epstein’s lieutenant, Ghislaine Maxwell, chatting with her as if they were longtime friends. Blanche then promptly transferred the convicted child s*x trafficker from a maximum-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a much more comfy prison camp in Texas where she gets such niceties as puppy play dates and private meetings with her family.
Yet neither he, nor his predecessor, former attorney general Pam Bondi, would give Maxwell and Epstein’s victims the time of day.
Survivors were irate — and blunt — in their assessment of Blanche’s qualifications for the cabinet post after meeting with him two weeks ago.
“I found him abrasive, condescending and intentionally noncommittal to survivors, a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing,” said survivor Annie Farmer.
President Trump has repeatedly called the Epstein scandal a “hoax,” but the fallout has been serious enough that his top aides held secret meetings to discuss the Epstein case in the White House “Situation Room” — a place generally reserved for national security matters.
The White House Epstein Cover-up
His aides seem to recognize something that the President does not: that his failure to acknowledge the survivors of s*xual assault makes it appear that he condones these crimes — even when they involve children.
Several of the Jan. 6 rioters whom he pardoned have subsequently been charged with s*xually abusing children or possessing voluminous amounts of child po*******hy. In one case, the FBI discovered the child po*******hy while serving warrants in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
This brings me to Andrew and Tristan Tate — brothers criminally charged with s*x trafficking who have proudly proclaimed their hatred of women and their love of Trump to millions of right-wing followers in the so-called social media manosphere.
Despite facing s*x crime charges in two countries, they were welcomed back into this country last year, and as if that wasn’t maddening enough, one of Trump’s top aides threw a party for them right before their recent arrest in Miami on child po*******hy charges in the UK.
For those unfamiliar, Andrew and Tristan Tate are MAGA influencers who have profited off the s*xual exploitation of girls and young women. In court records, Andrew, 39, is accused of r**e, holding a young Florida woman against her will and having s*x with and beating a 15-year-old girl. He and Tristan, 38, were charged with human trafficking in 2023 and held for months in Romania.
The American-born brothers were released on their own recognizance, pending trial — but were prohibited by Romanian authorities from fleeing the country because they were considered a danger to society.
The Romanian prosecutors allege that the men blackmailed and coerced women into producing pornographic videos, and into performing s*x acts on video chat and we**am platforms. They are also accused of intimidating witnesses into not cooperating with law enforcement authorities.
Andrew, on social media platforms, openly discussed bribing law-enforcement officials and often compared his influence and power to that of Jeffrey Epstein.
“EVERYONE wants to be friends with the pimp,” he wrote in post on X. “Doubt me? EPSTEIN HAD ACCESS TO P***Y. Look at his fu***ng friends list.”
The brothers, former kickboxers who also who hold British citizenship, were living in the UK, but relocated to Romania in 2015 after British authorities began investigating Andrew for s*x crimes. In Romania, they then built a multi-million-dollar online po*******hy business.
Court records, as well as their own public statements, show that they recruited young women from around the world to be their “girlfriends,” telling them they loved them, then grooming and manipulating into doing po*******hy.
The brothers have denied all wrongdoing. But they don’t refute that they exploited and coerced women to perform s*x acts — just that they didn’t commit r**e and don’t believe they did anything illegal. They are self-described misogynists who admit they “convert” women into working for them and giving them almost all their money through control tactics.
What is s*x trafficking?
The brothers took the “OnlyFans” model to a whole new level by creating a “Pimping Hoes Degree” to teach men how to groom young women.
Andrew Tate repeatedly said that r**e victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and demonstrated in one video how he would physically assault a female partner if she ever accused him of cheating. “It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up b***h,” he said.
He has described women as “intrinsically lazy” and said there was “no such thing as an independent female.”
His comments dehumanize women, and encourage violence — and they’ve been banned from several social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
The brothers have still managed to launder their reputations through a digital ecosystem by primarily gearing their message to the alt-right and men who gravitate to misogynist podcasters and influencers. They’ve also leveraged their millions of followers to gain support among Trump’s top advisors, family members and other influential conservatives, like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson.
Donald Trump Jr. — Trump’s eldest son — had criticized Andrew Tate’s prosecution in Romania, calling it “absolute insanity” in a X post in 2023. Then, in a livestream with Tate in 2024, he said, “you’ve got people attacking you as far as I’m concerned.”
Trump’s youngest son, Barron, also appears to have cultivated a friendship with the Tate brothers to help his father’s campaign. His relationship with the men has recently drawn scrutiny by at least one Democrat in Congress who demanded that lawmakers force Barron to testify about his family’s association with the brothers.
They aren’t the only figures in Trump’s circle who have expressed a fondness for the notorious s*x predators.
Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, told Andrew Tate she was a big “fan” of his on a podcast on January 10, 2025 — just ten days before Trump took office again on Feb. 20, 2025.
Andrew Tate and Trump lawyer Alina Habba on the Benny Show podcast, Jan. 10, 2025.
Then, four days after speaking to the ebullient Habba (whose excitement at meeting Andrew was so evident it was embarrassing) Tate wrote a message to a friend.
“I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things,” Andrew Tate wrote in a Jan. 14, 2025 message reviewed by the New York Times. “I’ve been told ill be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami.”
Despite the serious criminal allegations in Romania — and the fact that British authorities had secured arrest warrants to extradite the brothers for s*xual assault charges in the UK — the new Trump administration reached out to the Romanian government and asked them to lift the brothers’ travel restrictions.
On February 27, the Tate brothers promptly flew on a private jet to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Welcome back to America!
Records show that a senior Trump official ordered that the Tate brothers’ electronic devices — which were seized by Homeland Security Officials upon their arrival in the U.S. — be returned to them days later, according to a report by ProPublica. The Trump official, Paul Ingrassia (who formerly represented the Tates), took Homeland Security officials to task for taking them in the first place.
In short, Trump and his family welcomed the accused s*x traffickers back to America.
Meanwhile, Romania and Britain continued to investigate the brothers. More charges were filed. On July 18, they were arrested in Miami. There are now seven possible victims in the UK, and the charges include r**e, assault, trafficking and other crimes related to “indecent images of a child and extreme po*******hy.”
But there’s more.
In the days before their arrest, the brothers were enjoying some time in the elite social and political circles of Washington, D.C., where they were feted by none other than Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent who introduced Trump to Melania.
Not long ago — (March 2026) — Zampolli — now a special envoy to the President — was in the headlines for his bitter public child-custody battle with his child’s mother, Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro. Ungaro had been arrested in Florida and subsequently deported back to Brazil. Evidence suggests that Zampolli pressured U.S. immigration officials to deport her, although he has denied he was directly involved.
In the aftermath of Ungaro’s deportation, she claimed in several since-deleted social media posts that Melania had been an es**rt who worked for Jeffrey Epstein. Ungaro threatened to expose other dirt about Trump, Melania and Epstein.
Amid Ungaro’s public statements, Melania Trump held a press conference on April 9 announcing unequivocally that she had no connections to Epstein.
Brazilian Model Rattles White House
Zampolli downplayed his own relationship with Epstein. Emails show that Zampolli and Epstein had discussed a modeling partnership together, but that never materialized. There’s no evidence he was involved in Epstein’s criminal exploits.
Zampolli was nevertheless once part of the same modeling world that often used the business to lure women to do more than just photo shoots. Hundreds of emails between Epstein and other modeling agents show that he was using the agents to recruit women for s*x by offering them modeling jobs.
Two of Epstein’s associates, Jean-Luc Brunel and David Siad, were modeling scouts accused of s*xually abusing models and other young women. (Brunel died by su***de in 2022 and Siad was found dead last week).
Zampolli confirmed that he “hosted the Tate brothers at his house in Northwest Washington,” and that the party was attended by about 150 people, according to the Daily Mail.
Asked whether the event was connected to his State Department post, the 56-year-old quipped: “Why would I do that? This was a summer gathering.”
It’s hard to ignore the optics of Zampolli — a close confident of Trump and the First Lady — hosting a summer soiree for two of the world’s most famous s*x predators.
In what universe would an American leader allow himself and his own family to be associated with self-described misogynists? Last I checked, neither Trump nor his sons have ever denounced the brothers for publicly implying they have a cozy relationship with the President of the United States.
The Tates are being held in a federal detention as they fight extradiction to the UK. The Trump administration has said it will not block their extradition.
Still, Trump and his hand-picked attorney general continue to flout the Epstein Files Transparency Act by refusing to release the rest of the files — files that may implicate some of Trump’s closest allies and possibly even himself.
To be clear, there is no evidence that Trump or Melania were involved with Epstein’s crimes.
But the fact that Blanche continues to aggressively block their release in the courts raises questions about what, if anything, Trump is trying to cover up about his association and/or others who participated in or enabled Epstein’s crimes.
Given how this is going, and what we’ve found thus far, shouldn’t someone investigate whether the President was involved?
Under Trump, the DOJ isn’t likely to do that anytime soon. But come November, the tide could change.
The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown is an opinion column.
