For more than a decade, I’ve been writing about the aviators who populated the world of serial pedophile and power-broker Jeffrey Epstein. Now I know that the subject of one of my first articles notified Epstein that this aspect of his global influence network was on my radar.

In an email to Epstein dated January 27, 2015, Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nada Marcincova, forwarded without comment the link to my blog, Global Girl & Friend of Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Same Person, Flight School Says.

This was long before Epstein was the villain known ’round the world for procuring underage girls and/or hosting parties for titans of business and academia, princes, sheiks, prime ministers and heads of state. But it was news because at that time, Marcinko was an aviation influencer with large followings on both Facebook and YouTube.

Sure, her good looks would have made her chickbait even to those not interested in flying. But her influencer bona fides led to invitations to fly all sorts of great aircraft, where she demonstrated skillful flying and a lot of panache.

Nadia and I met in 2013, when she accepted an invitation to drive an Aston Martin as part of a story I was writing for Frequent Business Travel magazine.

Two years later, another event participant asked if I thought the Global Girl was one of the women helping Epstein procure young women for sex in West Palm Beach in the 2000s. I started to dig and discovered that the influencer was both an Epstein victim and co-victimizer.

Perhaps I was not the first to make the connection. Marcinko was initially known as “Gulfstream Girl.” but in 2013, she was sued by Gulfstream Aerospace for trademark infringement, forcing her to switch from Gulfstream Girl to Global Girl.

Over the years, I’ve written a dozen posts that layer onto my original, sad first story. The more I learned the more I realized that even though Nadia appeared to have accomplished enough and become famous enough to escape the world into which she had been brought as a “sex slave” of Epstein, she remained in it, expanding from and likely benefiting from Epstein’s influential network, then linking up with entrepreneur Dean Kamen’s network and perhaps others.

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people have pieces of the truth about the Epstein network, but few have all of it. Among those who do, are the convicted Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving time in a federal prison, Nadia Marcinko and Sarah McCarthy, friends and fellow Epstein unindicted co-conspirators.

McCarthy, previously known as Sarah Kellen, worked with Nadia during the time of the original sex abuse charges in Palm Beach, Florida in the mid 2000s. She was ready to spill with a book, Blue Butterfly Inside the Diary of an Epstein Survivor, set to be published in April. However, Yahoo News is now reporting that McCarthy has pulled back the publication of the book out of concerns for her safety.

Who knows what this photo means, but on January 26,  Nik Tzimas Hatziefstathiou, posted it on his account, claiming it is Nadia Marcincova. And it certainly does look like her. His caption suggests she is with producers from the American comedy show, NBC’s Saturday Night Live. I have not been able to confirm that with SNL.

Hatziefstathiou’s representation may not be reliable. He was convicted in Delaware County, Pennsylvania after being charged with a variety of crimes including forgery and identity theft. The district attorney bringing the case against him said at the time, “Evidence shows that Nikolaos Hatziefstathiou will use any means to create his false narrative.” So make of this photo what you will. I post it because it is the only photo I’ve seen of Nadia in years.

In the United States at least, the release of the Epstein files has been politicized to the extent that the focus is on what they will show about the pedophile’s relationship with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. But there is far more important information contained within.

My appearance in the files is one pinhole-sized opening into a sprawling global network where sex isn’t the story, it is the tool, the tool used to gain control over so much more.