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Paolo Zampolli and ID Models appeared in New York Post Page Six multiple times a year. Sometimes multiple times a month.
Look at what was being published.
November 1999: Journalist Jared Paul Stern wrote about a night out with Zampolli. Zampolli introduced him to his “latest discovery.” A 17 year old girl. Just arrived from Australia. In New York for one week.
Stern then described her comp card as depicting a “sizzling temptress with arresting cleavage and bedroom eyes.”Zampolli was marketing a 17 year old girl who had been in the country for seven days using sexualized imagery.
Other Page Six clippings from the same period featured photos of young girls under captions like “fresh face” and descriptions of them being newly discovered and available. Read them today and they look less like gossip column items and more like advertisements.
Another clipping from the same era: Zampolli spotted a 15-year-old ninth grader still attending high school in Miami. The paper described her as about to become “the world’s most popular ninth grader.”
This was not hidden. It was in the newspaper. Repeatedly. With their faces.
Perhaps wealthy men who read the column could see who was new, who had just arrived, who was young and available. And Page Six was platforming it all.
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