Who Is Adriana Ross?

The odd thing about the four women named in Epstein's 2008 non prosecution agreement is how unproductive it is to try to figure out what, if anything, they actually did all day. Adriana Ross is the best example. Just as the Maxwell trial began, the UK Mirror hyped,

A former model accused of organising under-age girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse has left the US as the FBI is poised to make arrests.

Adriana Ross, 36, who was once questioned about Prince Andrew under oath, was tracked down by the Mirror as she left her home in Miami, Florida.

As she packed a case into a car she refused to answer questions about Andrew or her alleged role with Epstein.

And when she later arrived at the city’s cruise terminal with her husband, she insisted: “I have nothing to say.”

. . . On Friday night sources told the Mirror that papers were being prepared ahead of “several arrests”.

But Ms Ross is now on a cruise of all things, where the FBI could pull her off the ship at will, and there still have been no arrests. Where have you gone, J Edgar? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. The Mirror story goes on,

She was accused of clearing three computers from Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005 before police raided it – but when asked about this she exercised her right to remain silent.

During a civil prosecution in March 2010, she refused to answer questions about Prince Andrew, whose friendship with Epstein has led to public shame.

. . . Lawyers for Epstein’s victims also tackled Ross on notes found in the billionaire’s bin purportedly showing Ross allegedly arranging when and how victims would visit him.

One read: “Adriana hasn’t confirmed Julie for 11 yet, she is keeping Brittany on hold in case Julie doesn’t call back.”

Web searches bring up slightly more background. Elsewhere according to the UK Mirror,

Polish-born [Adriana] Ross moved to the US in 2002 and was once on the books of the prestigious Elite model agency.

She wed her first husband in Miami and worked for Epstein for a number of years until his first arrest in 2007.

Since leaving his employment, Ross has qualified as an accountant and lives with second husband, Ariel Salazar, in a run-down £217,000 home.

Ross and fellow alleged “potential co-conspirators” Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Nadia Marcinkova could still be subject to criminal charges in New York.

According to the Daily Beast,

Court filings reveal that an alleged co-conspirator referred to as Employee-1 will tell jurors that in 2005, Epstein’s staff continued to enable his sex crimes and that she made phone calls to schedule his underage “massage” appointments.

The unnamed employee appears to be Adriana Ross, a 38-year-old former model from Poland who was among four women to receive immunity as part of Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea agreement in Florida. . . . According to prosecutors, Employee-1 will testify that in October 2005, Epstein and her superior, another co-conspirator identified as Employee-2, instructed her to help remove computers from the money manager’s Palm Beach mansion.

However, the prosecution in the Maxwell trial has rested its oddly abreviated case without calling Ross or mentioning the 2005 episode. The story continues,

In a 2010 deposition, former butler Janusz Banasiak said Ross and a male associate hauled computers out of Epstein’s lair weeks prior to Palm Beach cops executing a search warrant. Ross, whose deposition was taken a month after Banasiak’s, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights when answering questions posed by victims’ lawyers. Those queries included: “Isn’t it true that Ghislaine Maxwell delivers underage minor females to Jeffrey Epstein?” and “How much additional money or bonus were you paid to take the computers that we’re talking about out of Jeffrey Epstein’s house?”

Attorneys also asked Ross if Maxwell discussed retaliating against girls who went to the police, and whether Maxwell and Epstein had ever threatened her. One lawyer asked whether Maxwell told Ross: “Don’t worry. If we get caught we have it covered and we’ll just attack these little girls.” The ex-model replied, “I refuse to answer.”

Since coming to America in 2002 on a visa sponsored by a modeling agency, Ross has used the surnames Mucinska and Salazar.

But that's the sum total. Ross worked for Epstein from some time after her arrival in the US at age 18 until about the time of Epstein's 2006 Florida arrest, which isn't all that long, especially in comparison to the others mentioned in the non prosecution agreement. There is no evidence of a romantic relationship with Epstein; she was already too old. During that time, she apparently set up a tentative visit by someone named Julie in case Brittany couldn't make it. We might assume the visit was to Epstein for a massage and that Brittany and Julie were underage, but we certainly don't know, and nothing of this is in evidence in the Maxwell trial.

And in any case, Ms Ross is exercising her right to remain silent. At best, it looks like Adriana Ross was a low-level scheduler who was paid to look good and hand out hundred-dollar bills to nymphets. The photo above suggests she wan't terribly bright. At one point, she helped a tech guy wheel out some computers. The other week, she went on a cruise with her husband.

Is that all? What about the tech guy? Wouldn't he have known a lot more about the computers? Did they ever go looking for him?

Something's hinky here. There's some sleight of hand going on, and the press, insofar as it's paying attention, is complicit.