The Photographer Who Launched Melania Trump’s Career—and His Ties to Epstein

The Epstein files show how a key figure in Melania Trump’s early modeling career remained connected to Epstein long after his conviction.

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I have a new piece out in Vanity Fair examining the one degree of separation between Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

Before she was first lady, Melania moved within a tight, rarefied modeling circuit in the late 1990s — a world she was launched into by celebrity photographer Antoine Verglas, known for his sensual, natural-lig…