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Melania’s Party Pal Spills on Hellish ICE Ordeal
April 12, 2026
The Daily Beast
Paul Morigi / Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesThe woman who says she was deported as a favor to a friend of Donald Trump and Melania is speaking out about her hellish experience in ICE custody.Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model, says she was detained at the request of Paolo Zampolli, an Italian modeling agent whose decadeslong relationship with the president and first lady helped land him a role as Trump’s special envoy.
Zampolli, 56, is locked in a bitter custody battle with Ungaro, 41, over their 16-year-old son.“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,” Ungaro told the Spanish newspaper El País during an interview in her Rio de Janeiro penthouse.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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