Nadia Marcinko

Nadia Marcinkova
Born
Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Other names
  • Nada Marcinko
  • Naďa Marcinková
  • Nadežda Marcinková
  • N E M
Occupations
  • Pilot
  • Model
Known forPilot for Jeffrey Epstein
WebsiteAviLoop.com

Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nada Marcinkova (Slovak: Naďa Marcinková), is a Slovak-born pilot, flight instructor and CEO of aviation website Aviloop. Marcinko is best known as the former pilot of American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Career

In multiple sources references are made by Marcinko herself to being a model,[1] particularly in her teen years.[2] However, it is not clear whether her references to modeling are about her early life in Europe or the period after she came to the United States.[3] She described her transition from modeling to becoming a pilot by saying she was "ready for longer runways"[4] and went from "runway to runway".[5]

In August 2019, Business Insider reported that depositions taken in relation to the Epstein case disputed that she had been a model.[6] Other sources also dispute her modeling background.[7][8]

Marcinko started flight training at a flight school at Palm Beach County Park Airport.[2][9][5] As of 2019, she held three rating certificates: for single-engine aircraft, multi-engine aircraft, and various Gulfstream business jets.[4][10][5][3]

Marcinko became known on social media under the name "Gulfstream Girl".[4][3] Gulfstream Aerospace filed a trademark infringement suit (Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation v. Aviloop LLC et al.) against her on November 18, 2013.[11][4] Marcinko and Gulfstream reached an out-of-court settlement, filed on January 6, 2014, after which Marcinko changed her online name to "Global Girl".[4]

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."[4][2] The business is based at an address in New York in a building majority-owned by Mark Epstein, brother of Jeffrey Epstein.[12][13]

Association with Jeffrey Epstein

Several media outlets have reported that Marcinko worked as a long-term assistant to Jeffrey Epstein and was a regular pilot of Epstein's so-called Lolita Express after she received a pilot's license in 2012.[13][4][14]

Earliest reports from victims in Palm Beach police reports in 2005–2006 alleged that Epstein instructed Marcinko to join in the sex acts with recruited victims.[15][16][17] During interviews, one victim claimed that Epstein had bragged about having "purchased" Marcinková and bringing her to the United States to be his "Yugoslavian sex slave".[17][18] Marcinko's father, Peter Marcinko has declined to comment on media speculation, stating: "we’ve already learned all sorts of things about ourselves from the media".[19]

Marcinko was reportedly identified as one of Epstein's accomplices (the others being Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff) given immunity from prosecution in Epstein's non-prosecution agreement from 2008.[13][4]

During Epstein's first incarceration from 2008 to 2009, Marcinko visited him 67 times. In 2010, following his release, she was documented still living at his Palm Beach estate.[14][17] The Guardian reported that Marcinko was questioned by lawyers amidst 2010 lawsuits against Epstein.[13]

In 2015, The Telegraph reported that during police questioning Marcinko had "invoked her right not to incriminate herself, protected by the US constitution's Fifth Amendment", when she was asked about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was a frequent guest of Epstein.[20]

In September 2019, a CNN article stated that Marcinko may be a "victim" of Epstein as well as an "accomplice". CNN also quoted Marcinko's lawyers who said: "Like other victims, Nadia Marcinko is and has been severely traumatized", and that "[s]he needs time to process and make sense of what she has been through before she is able to speak out".[21]

Personal life

Marcinko was born Nada Marcinkova in eastern Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia).[13][9] Her father, Peter Marcinko, is an architect from Prešov, Slovakia.[22]

It was incorrectly reported that Marcinko was from Yugoslavia.[23] Her father denied speculation she was brought as a young girl to the U.S. to live with Epstein.[23] By 2019 she had changed her name to Nadia Marcinko.[24][1][13]

Marcinko has reportedly been missing since early January 2024. The Independent suggested that her disappearance may be linked to the release of the final batch of Epstein documents that same month. As of 2026, she has been reported as a member of the American Buddhist community Zen Studies Society.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Pilar Melendez (9 July 2019). "Where Are Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Accomplices Now?". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Nadia Marcinkova, Epstein's alleged "sex slave" who was accused of participating in sexual encounters with underage girls, is now an FAA-certified commercial pilot and flight instructor. Marcinkova, 33, who was allegedly brought from the former Yugoslavia to live with Epstein, now goes by the named "Global Girl" on social media, and has changed her last name.
  2. ^ a b c New York City First. "Girls In Tech". nycfirst.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  3. ^ a b c Miller, Jeff (19 November 2013). "Forbes: Facebook's Gulfstream Girl Takes Off With An Uplifting Message". Forbes. Archived from the original on November 23, 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2019. As Gulfstream Girl, more than 77,000 people have 'liked' Marcinko's Facebook page in less than 18 months. That makes her a veritable Facebook phenomenon. By contrast, Gulfstream Aerospace has 18,000 'likes'.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Heffernan, Virginia (23 July 2019). "The Twisted Flight Paths of 'Global Girl' and the Lolita Express". Wired. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Christine Negroni (22 January 2015). "Did Popular Aviatrix Right-Seat for Epstein in Royal Sex Scandal?". Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ Bluestone, Gabriel (5 August 2019). "The New York City Building at the Center of Jeffrey Epsteins Web". Business Insider. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  7. ^ Patterson, James; Connolly, John; Malloy, Tim (2016). Filthy Rich. New York: Little Brown and Company. pp. 129–130, 282–283. ISBN 9780316274050.
  8. ^ Winikoff, Janet (2019-08-13). "Nada Marcinkova: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  9. ^ a b Mark C. Lee (22 January 2013). "Learning To Fly: All About Priorities | PlaneAndPilotMag.com". planeandpilotmag.com. Retrieved 26 July 2019. Unfortunately, travel was a way of life for the young teen, who was discovered by a modeling agency in her native Slovakia.
  10. ^ "FAA Registry – Airmen – Airmen Inquiry - Main". amsrvs.registry.faa.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  11. ^ "'Gulfstream Girl' Accused Of Ripping Off Jet Co.'s Trademark - Law360". law360.com. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  12. ^ Vanessa Grigoriadis (18 July 2019). ""I Thought, Wow, Rich People Are Weird": Two Women Who Flew with Epstein Reveal Secrets of His Private World". Vanity Fair. Two alleged accomplices, now in their 30s, Nada Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen, who have since changed their names to Nadia Marcinko and Sarah Kensington, opened businesses this decade with an address at a business controlled by Epstein's brother, Mark. Marcinkova, a pilot, now calls herself "Global Girl" and had a website that sold flying lessons.
  13. ^ a b c d e f Jon Swaine (7 January 2015). "Jeffrey Epstein scandal: women with new identities run firms from Epstein-linked property". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  14. ^ a b Baltz, Holly. "Epstein files: These 4 women might know if there's a client list". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  15. ^ Brown, Julie K. (2018-12-02). "Perversion of Justice: How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  16. ^ "Sex Offender Law Report" (PDF). Civic Research Institute.
  17. ^ a b c Orden, Erica; Scannell, Kara (2019-09-27). "As prosecutors go after Epstein's alleged co-conspirators, the line between accomplice and victim may be blurred". CNN. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
  18. ^ Palm Beach Police Department Incident Report (2006) See page 40. Narrative #11: "Epstein had purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia. Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave"
  19. ^ Aktuality.sk (2026-02-03). "Prípad Epstein a jeho spojenie so Slovenskom: čo nám odhalili nové spisy". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2026-03-16.
  20. ^ Gordon Rayner (5 January 2015). "Prince Andrew's friend Jeffrey Epstein 'used aggressive witness tampering to prevent truth coming out'". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 July 2019. They include Nadia Marcinkova, described as "Epstein's live-in sex slave", who invoked her right not to incriminate herself, protected by the US constitution's Fifth Amendment, when she was asked about the Duke of York.
  21. ^ Erica Orden; Kara Scannell (27 September 2019). "As prosecutors go after Epstein's alleged co-conspirators, the line between accomplice and victim may be blurred". CNN.
  22. ^ Felšöci Rusnáková, Vanda (2019-09-03). "Otec krásnej Slovenky z pedofilného škandálu Epstein: Svoju dcéru sme nepredali, tvrdí Marcinko". plus7dni.pluska.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  23. ^ a b "Miliardář Epstein si nechal dovézt nezletilou Slovenku coby otrokyni - Novinky.cz". Novinky CZ. August 2, 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  24. ^ Julie K. Brown (28 November 2018). "Even from jail, sex abuser manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark". Miami Herald. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  25. ^ McHardy, Martha (2024-01-09). "Who is Nadia Marcinko? Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slave' missing since documents released". The Independent. Retrieved 2024-06-20.


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