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Adriana Ross

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tagsperson, epstein-assistant, non-prosecution-agreement, operation-leap-year
aliasesAdriana Mucinska, Adriana Mucinska Ross, Adriana Ross Salazar

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Also recorded asAdriana Mucinska; Adriana Mucinska Ross; Adriana Ross Salazar123
RolePersonal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, mid-2000s45
Federal investigationOperation Leap Year, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida6
Grand jury subpoenasNovember 13 and December 18, 20066
2007 Non-Prosecution AgreementNamed in the co-conspirators clause7
ImmunityReported by the Miami Herald as immunity from federal prosecution8
DeposedMarch 15, 2010, Fort Lauderdale, Florida9

Adriana Ross, recorded in federal court papers as “Adriana Ross, a/k/a Adriana Mucinska,” worked as a personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s.14 She is one of four women named in the co-conspirators clause of the non-prosecution agreement that resolved the federal investigation of Epstein in the Southern District of Florida, signed on September 24, 2007.710 Federal prosecutors subpoenaed her twice in late 2006, and the transcript of the West Palm Beach grand jury session of March 18, 2008 is captioned as a criminal case naming her as a defendant alongside Epstein, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova.61 The agreement’s clause committed the United States not to charge her, and the Miami Herald reported in 2018 that the four women it names were given immunity from federal prosecution.78 She was deposed in Florida civil litigation on March 15, 2010 and answered “I refuse to answer” to the questions put to her.9

Names in the record

Court papers use four forms of her name.1237 The federal grand jury caption of March 18, 2008 reads, on the page image, “ADRIANA ROSS, a/k/a Adriana Mucinska.”1 A Palm Beach County civil docket records a 2013 notice of deposition under the name “Adriana Mucinska Ross.”2 A court exhibit in United States v. Maxwell lists “Adriana Ross Salazar.”3 Defense counsel at the Maxwell trial used “Adriana Mucinska” when questioning one of Epstein’s pilots.4 The non-prosecution agreement itself uses only “Adriana Ross.”7

Role in Epstein’s household

Cross-examining Epstein’s pilot Lawrence Visoski at the Maxwell trial on November 30, 2021, defense counsel asked whether he recalled the name Adriana Mucinska. Visoski answered, “Yes, I remember that name,” agreed that “she also became one of Epstein’s assistants around that same point in the 2000s,” and said of contact with her, “Yeah, not as much, but yeah, I did.”4

An FBI link-analysis chart in the bureau’s Epstein file, case number 31E-NY-3027571, sets out the roles the bureau attributed to Epstein’s employees.5 Its entry for “Adriana Mucinska (Ross)” reads: “Unknown if she was directly responsible for recruiting girls but admits during a proffer she was trained by Vickers to schedule FL and NY massage appointments for Epstein.” The same entry states that she “was instructed by Vickers to remove items from his Palm Beach home and Virgin Island home and have them destroyed during the Palm Beach investigation,” and closes: “Unknown if she actually recruited or abused any of the victims.”5 That closing qualification is addressed to recruitment and abuse. The chart states the instruction to remove and destroy items without any such qualification.5 “Vickers” is Sarah Kellen, whom the chart describes as Ross’s direct supervisor.5 The non-prosecution agreement signed in September 2007 committed the United States not to bring criminal charges against Ross.7

Testifying before the federal grand jury in West Palm Beach on March 18, 2008, an FBI special agent described administrative subpoenas issued “to telecommunication companies for cell phone records for Mr. Epstein’s assistants as well as many of the Jane Does,” and said the telephone records had been marked to show the calls charged as overt acts in the proposed indictment.1

The federal investigation

The federal investigation, opened by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in May 2006 under the name Operation Leap Year, issued two subpoenas to her, in November and December 2006.106 The investigation timeline exhibit records a subpoena to “Adriana Mucinska (former assistant)” issued on November 13, 2006 with a return date of December 1, 2006, and a second subpoena on December 18, 2006 returnable January 12, 2007.6 The grand jury subpoena log for Operation Leap Year lists both under control numbers OLY-24 and OLY-24-2, records the material sought from her as “employment records, contact information, massage appts,” and enters an actual return date of February 6, 2007 against the second.11

By March 2008 she was named in the caption of the case the office was presenting. The transcript of testimony before Federal Grand Jury 07-103 in West Palm Beach on March 18, 2008, later filed as an exhibit in the Maxwell prosecution, is captioned United States of America v. Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, a/k/a Adriana Mucinska, and Nadia Marcinkova.1 The federal investigation was resolved by the non-prosecution agreement rather than by indictment.10 Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court on June 30, 2008 under the terms of that agreement, and the Miami Herald reported in November 2018 that the four women named in it “were also given immunity from federal prosecution.”128

The 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement

The agreement was executed on the authority of U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta; OPR records that it was signed by Epstein, his attorneys Gerald Lefcourt and Lilly Ann Sanchez, and Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Marie Villafana.710 The copy filed in Epstein’s 2019 bail proceedings contains three versions of the final page, signed respectively by Epstein, by Lefcourt and by Lilly Ann Sanchez, each dated 9/24/07; the government’s signature line is blank on both.7 The clause naming Ross appears at page 5 of 7:7

the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova.7

The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, reviewing the office’s handling of the case, found that “[i]mportant provisions, such as promising not to prosecute all ‘potential co-conspirators,’ were added with little discussion or consideration by the prosecutors.”13 Villafana told OPR that she had been willing to include a non-prosecution provision for Epstein’s co-conspirators, “who at the time she understood to be the four women named in the proposed agreement,” because the office was not interested in prosecuting them if Epstein pleaded guilty.14 In her words, “[W]e considered Epstein to be the top of the food chain, and we wouldn’t have been interested in prosecuting anyone else.”14 OPR recorded that “[s]he did not consider the possibility that Epstein might be trying to protect other, unnamed individuals, and no one, including the FBI case agents, raised that concern.”14 The agreement also states that “[t]he parties anticipate that this agreement will not be made part of any public record.”15

Ghislaine Maxwell later argued that the clause barred her own prosecution in New York.16 The Second Circuit rejected that argument on September 17, 2024, holding that “Epstein’s NPA did not bar Maxwell’s prosecution by USAO-SDNY as the NPA does not bind USAO-SDNY.”1617 Maxwell’s petition for a writ of certiorari, filed April 10, 2025, reproduced the clause and the OPR excerpts.18

Civil litigation

On March 15, 2010 Ross was deposed, on video, in Jane Doe v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 08-CV-80893, in the Southern District of Florida. The deposition ran from 10:13 a.m. to 12:42 p.m. at a Fort Lauderdale reporting service; she was represented by Alan S. Ross, and Bradley Edwards appeared for the plaintiff. To each substantive question in the excerpts filed with the court she answered, “I refuse to answer.”9 A statement of facts filed by Edwards in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act case in January 2015 describes those answers as invocations of the privilege against self-incrimination.19

The docket of the Palm Beach County litigation between Epstein and Edwards records a notice of taking her deposition, filed on October 2, 2013 by Jack Scarola for a deposition dated October 15, 2013.2

In the Maxwell prosecution, “Adriana Ross Salazar” appears as item 51 on the “Names for Voir Dire” list, a court exhibit read to prospective jurors and filed with the court’s post-trial housekeeping order of February 4, 2022.3 The list runs to fifty-eight names.3

Coverage

  • Julie K. Brown, “Even from jail, sex abuser manipulated the system,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018, part of the “Perversion of Justice” series. The article names the four women covered by the co-conspirators clause and reports that the paper was unable to reach Ross for comment.8

Footnotes

  1. Testimony of an FBI special agent before Federal Grand Jury 07-103, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 18, 2008, filed as Exhibit C to Document 293-3 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE. Caption at transcript p. 1, read from the page image; subpoena testimony at transcript p. 18. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00004663 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Palm Beach County Circuit Court docket, case 502009CA040800XXXXMB, entry 685, p. 122 of 140. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00606813 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. “Names for Voir Dire,” court exhibit attached to the order of Judge Alison J. Nathan, Document 593 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed February 4, 2022; item 51 on exhibit p. 3, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00008863 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. Trial transcript, United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, November 30, 2021, Document 743, transcript p. 265. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00011773 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. FBI link-analysis chart, Jeffrey Epstein, case 31E-NY-3027571. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01653420 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. “Epstein Investigation Timeline,” Exhibit A-1 to the written response of AUSA A. Marie Villafaña to the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility, transmitted 10 May 2019; the exhibit itself carries no author, addressee or date, and is identified from the exhibit index at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00225378 p.44, p. 3 of 51. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224943 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. Non-Prosecution Agreement, September 2007, page 5 of 7, filed as Exhibit 1 to Document 6-1 in United States v. Epstein, No. 1:19-cr-00490-RMB (S.D.N.Y.). https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000290 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  8. Julie K. Brown, “Even from jail, sex abuser manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article219494920.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. Deposition of Adriana Ross, Jane Doe v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 08-CV-80893-CIV-MARRA/JOHNSON (S.D. Fla.), March 15, 2010. Excerpts were filed as Document 291-22 in No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM on January 21, 2015 and appear inside a compilation that opens with a February 11, 2015 email from Roy Black to the U.S. Attorney’s Office; the seven-page filing occupies pages 346 to 351 of that compilation, covering the transcript cover page and transcript pp. 36-37 and 81-82. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00188608 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility, Investigation into the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida’s Resolution of Its 2006-2008 Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, filed as Document 204-3 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, April 16, 2021, executive summary and narrative p. 85. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00003177 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. “Grand Jury Subpoena Log, In Re: Operation Leap Year,” Lions No. 2006R01181, p. 3, entries OLY-24 and OLY-24-2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00193068 p.4. ↩

  12. OPR Report, executive summary p. ii. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00003177 ↩

  13. OPR Report, narrative p. 169. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00003177 ↩

  14. OPR Report, narrative p. 70. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00003177 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. Non-Prosecution Agreement, term 13, page 5 of 7. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000290 ↩

  16. Memorandum of Ghislaine Maxwell in Support of Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment for Breach of Non-Prosecution Agreement, Document 142 in No. 1:20-cr-00330-AJN, filed February 4, 2021, p. 10. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00002573 ↩ ↩2

  17. United States v. Maxwell, No. 22-1426-cr, Document 109-1, decided September 17, 2024 (2d Cir.), opinion p. 4, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000002 ↩

  18. Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Maxwell v. United States, filed April 10, 2025; the clause appears in Appendix A at 5a and the OPR excerpts at Appendix F. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000034 ↩

  19. Statement of facts of Bradley Edwards, filed as Exhibit 16 to Document 291-15 in Doe v. United States, No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.), January 21, 2015, paragraph 57. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00081180 ↩

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