Oct 11, 2026 · 43 min · 9 segments
Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are countless stories, allegations and questions that still remain. In Part 2, we look at the women whose lives became intertwined with Epstein, from those who accused…
Eleanor NealeHost
Now, with all that being said, are you ready to dive back into the files? For the last two years, Jeffrey Epstein's pilot and alleged co-conspirator Nadia Marcinko had seemingly vanished off the face of the earth.
She was last seen in January 2024, but since then, her social media had gone blackout and virtually no one had seen her in real life.
And given her links to Epstein's world, the theory wasn't all that far-fetched.
But very recently, in early 2026, internet detectives think that they've located her.
She has seemingly appeared on the social media pages of Zen Studies Society, a Buddhist organisation in New York, and if it is her, It seems that she's now going by the name Ekju.
But in order to really understand why Nadia running away and going off the radar and assuming a new identity is important, you need to know her story and her involvement with Epstein's operation.
So Nadia was born in Slovakia in 1986 and there's been so many rumours pertaining to how she met Epstein The most infamous of which is that he actually purchased her from her own father when she was just a teenager.
Her dad has tried to speak out against this and shut it down because, of course, what an upsetting rumour for the whole entire family to be caught up in.
It just kind of ended up more like this urban legend folklore story that had no backing or evidence behind it.
But the more accurate version is that it seems that Epstein met Nadia in the same way that he met a lot of women and girls, through his links to the modelling industry, which we discussed in part one of this series.
He was not only besties with some of the biggest dogs in the modelling industry, like the owner of Victoria's Secret and some of the biggest agencies, but he also worked with a lot of them in a financial advisor capacity.
And these powerful men seemingly did a lot of favours for Epstein when it comes to connecting him with models for personal reasons and not business.
Nadia became a model
She was successful and signed to Jean-Luc Brunel's modelling agency by her mid-teens.
But it seems that Brunel and his modelling agency were in touch with Nadia from a very young age.
Now, with all that being said, are you ready to dive back into the files? For the last two years, Jeffrey Epstein's pilot and alleged co-conspirator Nadia Marcinko had seemingly vanished off the face of the earth.
She was last seen in January 2024, but since then, her social media had gone blackout and virtually no one had seen her in real life.
And given her links to Epstein's world, the theory wasn't all that far-fetched.
But very recently, in early 2026, internet detectives think that they've located her.
She has seemingly appeared on the social media pages of Zen Studies Society, a Buddhist organisation in New York, and if it is her, It seems that she's now going by the name Ekju.
But in order to really understand why Nadia running away and going off the radar and assuming a new identity is important, you need to know her story and her involvement with Epstein's operation.
So Nadia was born in Slovakia in 1986 and there's been so many rumours pertaining to how she met Epstein The most infamous of which is that he actually purchased her from her own father when she was just a teenager.
Her dad has tried to speak out against this and shut it down because, of course, what an upsetting rumour for the whole entire family to be caught up in.
It just kind of ended up more like this urban legend folklore story that had no backing or evidence behind it.
But the more accurate version is that it seems that Epstein met Nadia in the same way that he met a lot of women and girls, through his links to the modelling industry, which we discussed in part one of this series.
He was not only besties with some of the biggest dogs in the modelling industry, like the owner of Victoria's Secret and some of the biggest agencies, but he also worked with a lot of them in a financial advisor capacity.
And these powerful men seemingly did a lot of favours for Epstein when it comes to connecting him with models for personal reasons and not business.
Nadia became a model
She was successful and signed to Jean-Luc Brunel's modelling agency by her mid-teens.
But it seems that Brunel and his modelling agency were in touch with Nadia from a very young age.
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