Jeffrey Epstein and Nadia Marcinko: A Toxic Love Story (2003)

For the last two decades, Nadia Marcinko has been famously known as Jeffrey Epstein’s “sex slave” whom he allegedly purchased from her own father. Years later, Epstein brought her on as one of the pilots for his personal Boeing 727-100, nicknamed the Lolita Express. The DOJ’s recent releases have provided a wealth of new information about their relationship that was previously unknown, including how close the two of them were despite his emotional and sexual abuse. Epstein reportedly brought her to the United States when she was only 15 years old, and financial records show that he was also sending thousands of dollars to other underage girls and women, when they began what became an extremely toxic love story within two years of her arrival, if not sooner.

September 17th Anniversary

Using one of Marcinko’s email addresses and other records from 2003, I was able to find at least half a dozen sources that that indicated she was in a relationship with Epstein by September 2003. On September 17, 2009, Marcinko sent Epstein an email wishing him a “happy anniversary.” He responded, “Happy anniversary to you too.” And in an undated series of collages she created, I’m assuming, as a gift for Epstein, she wrote, “2007 September 17th” and “Happy [redacted]th.”

I initially thought that the date September 17th was in reference to the get-out-of-jail card Epstein received from the U.S. federal government back in 2007. However, on that same day in 2014, she sent him another email with a message that read “11 years ago.” Eleven years prior would have been 2003.

Additionally, in 2010, Epstein chastised her for being upset that he had only taken her to dinner “once in seven years.” And in 2013, she told him that she couldn’t “go back 10 years and change my decision.” All of these communications seem to indicate that they were in a relationship of sorts by September 2003, if not earlier. If true, Pam Bondi deliberately redacted the collage above to hide the fact that the relationship started when Marcinko was still a minor.

The Slovakian pilot was born on February 21, 1986, and in a 2008 email that was likely in reference to her, someone wrote:

I am going with ‘the last half of 2003,’ since she turned 18 in February 2004.

The government redacted both the sender and the recipient of the email, like they’ve done with so many others.

The first time Marcinko’s full name was included on Epstein’s flight logs was on September 22, 2003. She was probably on earlier flights but this was the earliest record I could find,.

Aboard that flight was Epstein, Brent Tindall, Sarah Kellen, Susan Hamblin, and Teala Davies. Like so many before her, Davies had been lured into Epstein’s circle with promises of “mentorship, vague allusions to professional opportunity, and ultimately, transportation to various locations controlled and frequented by Epstein and his network.”

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In another email that Marcinko wrote in January 2012, she told Epstein, “I’m 26…and I’ve already had sex with you for 7 straight years,” although it seems unlikely that they waited until she turned 19 to consummate the relationship. The first collage in her series alludes to their early relationship. She described herself as a “clueless little girl…”:

The next one hinted at the beginning of their sexual relationship and her initial surprise at his advances.

This would have been approximately 7-10 years after the New York police department and FBI ignored reports filed by victim Maria Farmer against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 1996, and after scores of girls had already been abused.

Wexner, the COUQ Foundation and Payoffs

Less than two months after Marcinko’s name appeared in the flight logs, the Leslie H. Charitable Fund (later known as the Wexner Family Charitable Fund) transferred $10 million to Epstein’s C.O.U.Q. Foundation. Those funds, along with an additional $11 million that was deposited from Wexner’s Children’s Trust in 2001, were the only deposits that had been made to the foundation up until this point. In other words, all of the assets held by C.O.U.Q. came from Wexner’s family accounts.3

Throughout the year, Epstein sent more than fifty separate payments to unidentified “girls and women” using five different JP Morgan banking accounts, including one that belonged to the C.O.U.Q. Foundation. The largest payment was sent on April 23rd in the amount of $73,400.

Epstein and Harvey Weinstein

The day before Wexner’s foundation sent the $10 million to C.O.U.Q., it was reported in The New York Times that a group of investors led by billionaire Mortimer B. Zuckerman, including Epstein and fellow serial sex offender Harvey Weinstein, had placed an offer to purchase New York magazine from Primedia, Inc.4

While hobnobbing that night at the New York Magazine Awards with the magazine’s editor in chief, along with then-Senator Hillary Clinton, members of Zuckerman’s team “found themselves accepting early congratulations for their seemingly inevitable victory.” What they didn’t know was that investment banker Bruce Wasserstein had quietly swooped in with the winning bid.

Zuckerman and his partners had “openly speculat[ed] about the changes to come once” after they took over the magazine, only to suffer a humiliating loss shortly thereafter. As The New York Times put it, “Such behavior made their resulting empty-handedness all the more remarkable. No doubt a hefty serving of crow, with a side of comeuppance, will fuel much table talk in coming weeks among New York City media watchers.”

Meanwhile, Epstein spent his time between business deals grooming Marcinko and paying off underage victims while Vanity Fair published articles like “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” In 2004, Marcinko turned 18 and that’s when we start seeing reports from victims that she participated in the abuse. After her surprise over Epstein’s sexual advances as illustrated in her collage (and interpreted by me as such), the very next one appeared to be a somber reflection on her life, “I played the cards I was dealt.”

1. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00214168.pdf
2. https://ia801606.us.archive.org/30/items/epstein-flight-logs-unredacted_202304/EPSTEIN%20FLIGHT%20LOGS%20UNREDACTED.pdf
3. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/311318013/2004_11_PF%2F31-1318013_990PF_200312
4. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/business/bid-for-new-york-magazine-a-dance-of-money-and-ego.html
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/22/business/media-post-mortems-for-a-media-deal-undone.html

*A version of this article was originally posted on my Substack