Brazilian former model describes Epstein flight: 'There were about 30 girls, beautiful and very young'

Amanda Ungaro was 17 when she boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, later known as the “Lolita Express,” on a flight from Paris to New York in June 2002. At the time, the financier’s sex crimes were not yet public; the first accusations would emerge in 2005. In an interview with O GLOBO, the former model described scenes aboard the aircraft that, she said, reflected the vulnerability of very young girls, many of them between 14 and 16.

“There were about 30 girls on the plane. I found it very strange,” Ungaro said. “They looked more like students than models — beautiful and very young, but not with a model profile.”