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. 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. 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". 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". 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. 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". == Personal life ==