She and Epstein clearly remained friends, though. She co-piloted his private jet on some flights to his island from 2012. In 2013, he arranged for her to get a job as a flying instructor for the company of entrepreneur Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. Messages between Marcinko and Epstein in 2015 confirm what she told investigators – that he agreed that year to double whatever income she earned from other sources.
We asked Kamen’s company, DEKA, for a comment about its association with Nadia Marcinko, but it did not reply. A spokesman for Kamen has previously said the inventor deeply regrets having any interactions with Epstein, and had no involvement in, or knowledge, of his crimes.
But, though Marcinko appears to have been loyal to Epstein for years, in 2018 she finally switched sides. A document in the files describes how she began to co-operate with the FBI that year in its investigation.
The following year, Epstein was jailed again while he awaited sex trafficking charges. In return, four years later the FBI supported Marcinko’s application to stay in the US after her visa ran out in 2022. The agency said she had been “recruited, harbored and obtained by Jeffrey Epstein and others for purposes of a coercive sexual relationship”.
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