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Nadia Marcinko, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s main girlfriend for seven years after his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell ended, is back under scrutiny as US lawmakers press ahead with efforts to question other women tied to the late financier. Marcinko has never been accused of or charged with any crime, but her name has returned to the center of the Epstein story because of what prison records, victim accounts and newly reviewed emails suggest about her relationship with him.
During Epstein’s first prison sentence, records show Marcinko visited him at least 67 times, and she later became an assistant pilot of his private plane. She is one of four women named as potential co-conspirators in Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, which granted them immunity from prosecution. A congresswoman now wants Adriana Ross and Marcinko investigated despite that deal, while Sarah Kellen and Lesley Groff are about to be questioned by US legislators. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam said, “We’d love to know if [Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant] Sarah Kellen can explain to us how [he] was able to get away with these crimes.”
Epstein’s network of women has remained a focus since he died in prison in 2019 while awaiting further sex charges, and Marcinko’s role has long sat in that uneasy space between witness, associate and alleged participant. The says its review of emails found that Epstein and Marcinko wanted to start a family together, and that email chains in the Epstein files show they celebrated 17 September as their anniversary for many years. The also found evidence suggesting Epstein asked Marcinko over many years to recruit other women to help satisfy his sexual desires and that she complied.
Marcinko later told investigators that Epstein was physically violent, saying he choked her and threw her down a flight of stairs. She said she first met him in New York in 2003 when she was 18 years old, after working for Karin Models in Paris and being brought to the United States a few weeks earlier by Jean-Luc Brunel on a visa he had arranged. She said she met Epstein at a birthday party for Brunel. Her lawyers say she is one of Epstein’s victims.
But the tension around Marcinko has never fully gone away. Girls in Palm Beach, Florida, told police that Marcinko participated in abuse when they were under age, an allegation that has kept her under scrutiny even as she has not been charged. The new reporting does not resolve her place in Epstein’s world so much as sharpen it: a woman described in emails as intimate partner, identified in a plea deal as a potential co-conspirator, and now again pulled into a broader push to examine who helped Epstein operate for years without consequence.
What happens next is clearer for some of Epstein’s other former associates than for Marcinko. Kellen and Groff are expected to face questions from lawmakers, and the fight over whether Marcinko and Ross should also be investigated is likely to intensify as Congress revisits the women around Epstein rather than only the men who were once at the center of the case.
