Who Is Nadia Marcinkova?
Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nada Marcinkova (Slovak: Naďa Marcinková) (born 1986), is a Slovakian-born pilot, flight instructor, and the CEO of Aviloop, an aviation website. She is known for her association with financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell.
. . . Over the years, several news outlets have reported that Marcinko, previously known under the name of Nada Marcinkova, worked as a long-term assistant to Jeffrey Epstein and was a regular pilot of Epstein's so-called Lolita Express. It was reported that she was one of four of Epstein's accomplices (including Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff) that were given immunity from prosecution in Epstein's controversial non-prosecution agreement from 2008. The Guardian reported that Marcinkova was questioned in 2010 concerning Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution
. . . According to the Miami Herald, Marcinko visited Epstein "more than 70 times when he was in Palm Beach custody," after his first criminal conviction.
In 2019, in written testimony given by Epstein's underage victims, Marcinko is also described as having encouraged and engaged in sexual acts with the underaged girls, sometimes involving sex toys, at the suggestion of Epstein. In one account, according to police, Epstein told one victim Marcinkova was his "sex slave", and that Epstein had "purchased her" when she was 15 from her family in the former Yugoslavia, a claim journalist Philip Weiss had made in New York Magazine in 2007.
However, Marcinkova/Marcinko is from Slovakia, not the former Yugoslavia, and her father denies selling her to Epstein. Whatever the circumstance, as with other of his associates, she seems to have transitioned from being an underage victim to an adult protegee whom Epstein sponsored by furthering her education and professional development, and she transitioned from victim to adult enabler and coconspirator. Also at the link,Marcinko started flight training at a flight school at the Palm Beach County Florida Airport, and with 250 hours in her logbook, she accepted an offer from Jeffrey Epstein to obtain her Gulfstream II rating and was certified shortly thereafter.
Like Sarah Kellen, she has continued in an Epstein-related business after her direct association with Epstein ended, but the extent to which the business is actually profitable is highly uncertain.Marcinko became popular on social media, under her label "Gulfstream Girl". Gulfstream Aerospace filed a trademark infringement suit (Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation v. Aviloop LLC et al.) against her on November 18, 2013. Marcinko and Gulfstream reached an out-of-court settlement, filed on January 6, 2014, after which Marcinko changed her online name to "Global Girl".
As of 2019, she remained CEO of her aviation business, Aviloop, described by Wired as a "supremely odd aviation branding business, whose website features flawless shots of her with Gulfstreams." The business is based at an address in New York, that is in a property controlled by Mark Epstein, brother of Jeffrey Epstein.
Like Sarah Kellen, her business is or was conducted out of an Epstein-related property and represents a continuation of a business role she performed with Epstein, in her case as a pilot. However, the business itself, as with Kellen, doesn't seem compatible with a high-profile lifestyle, and this raises for me the question of whether Epstein, in addition to securing a non prosecution agreement on their behalf, also provided them with a nest egg that could serve as an inducement not to testify against him or other associates in future legal cases.Although Marcinkova was one of Epstein's pilots, and her flight logs were among those subpoenaed by the US Virgin Islands, she was not called to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. That link also points out that in 2009, another Epstein pilot,
David Rodgers provided logs that revealed that Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Naomi Campbell were on board Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet[.]
The only Epstein pilot called to testify in the Maxwell trial was Larry Visoski, who claimed he never saw any inappropriate activity on the plane. This raises the question of why neither Marcinkova nor Rodgers was called as a witness if Visoski's testimony was of so little value. But according to CNN, at Maxwell's trial,Visoski testified that Epstein paid for his two daughters' education through college and gifted him acreage at the New Mexico ranch where Visoski built himself a home. The pilot noted that it was Epstein's practice to pay for the schooling of all his employees' children because he valued higher education. He also acknowledged signing a non-disclosure agreement as a part of his employment.
Two college educations in this day and age come to nearly half a million, far more than generous for an employee benefit. It sounds more like hush money. And neither Sarah Kellen nor Marcinkova had children, so we might suspect some other emolument of equivalent value was paid to them. In general, Epstein seems to have had a remarkable ability to spot weaknesses in his marks, victims, and enablers and keep manipuating them for decades with some combination of money, guilty conscience, loyalty, and obligation.