‘It’s war’: Trump ally’s ex-wife vows to go scorched earth on Melania amid Epstein claims

A former model who’s flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet and has close ties to President Donald Trump’s orbit warned late Saturday that “the truth will come out” after reportedly threatening to “tear down the entire system” by revealing insider knowledge.

That woman is Amanda Ungaro, a former Brazilian model, former ambassador to the United Nations and ex-wife of Paolo Zampolli, Trump’s special envoy and longtime friend. The New York Times reported last month that Zampolli successfully pushed Trump in 2025 to deport Ungaro, then his ex-wife.

Now, Ungaro is vowing revenge.

“Now it’s war,” Ungano told the Spanish news outlet El País in its report published Saturday night.

“We’ll see who wins. I kept quiet for years, and that’s why people are judging me. ‘Why are you speaking out now?’ they ask. ‘Because the guy wouldn’t let me live in peace!’”

Last week, an account on social media apparently belonging to Ungaro issued a series of threats directed at First Lady Melania Trump, vowing to “expose everything I know.” The threats were later suspected to be the potential motivation for the first lady’s surprise statement last week in which she denied having had a relationship with Epstein.

Speaking with El País, Ungaro held back on exposing her insider knowledge as it relates to Trump, the first lady and Epstein – suggesting such a disclosure was forthcoming – but did accuse her ex-husband of having “abused [her] psychologically, sexually and physically” – allegations that Zampolli denies.

She also recalled her more than three months spent in a Florida immigration detention center as she awaited deportation to Brazil.

“It was a pavilion with more than 120 people, the floor was wet, there were no windows, four days without seeing the sun… I came out infested with lice,” Ungaro told El País.

Ungaro also shared her experience flying on Epstein’s private jet in 2002 when she was 16 years old.

“My agent told me, ‘We’re going with a couple of friends, a private plane just for us,’” Ungaro said. “There were about 30 very young women there, 14, 15, 16 years old. I said, ‘What is this?’ And he replied, ‘Don’t worry.’”