Ivorian President’s Niece Allegedly Linked to Epstein in Mediation Role

Recently uncovered emails suggest that Nina Keita, the glamorous niece of the Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara, played a significant role in facilitating introductions for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to influential political figures and allegedly assisted in procuring young women for him.

Keita, who began her communications with Epstein in 2011, is the niece of President Ouattara, who has been at the helm of the West African nation since 2010. At the time, Keita was a model with experience in France, before returning to her homeland to take a prominent position at the state oil storage company, Gestoci. She is currently married to Adam Kamara, the nation’s employment minister.

The emails imply that Keita made visits to Epstein in New York, traveled on his private jet, and arranged a trip for him to Abidjan. During this visit, Epstein was purportedly set to meet with the president and key ministers to discuss potential investment opportunities.

However, the nature of the email exchanges takes a more sinister tone, as reported by The Times.

But the correspondence also takes a darker turn, according to The Times.

In May 2011, Keita asked Epstein if he wanted to meet one of her friends in Paris. He replied: ‘How old is she tell me about her? Do you have other friends.’

Keita responded: ‘She is 25. But she has a lot of friends too in Paris. You can meet her first and ask her I’m sure she’ll be happy to do that.’

Months later, after an apparent meeting at the Ritz in Paris, Epstein wrote: ‘Ask [redacted] to send pictures of her sister. I prefer under 25.’ 

Nina Keita, whose uncle Alassane Ouattara has led the West African nation since 2010, began corresponding with Epstein in 2011

Epstein is pictured with a young woman who appears to be in her underwear in a photograph released as part of the Epstein files

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara attends the first cabinet meeting of the new government in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Jan. 24, 2026

When none were sent, Keita forwarded photographs herself.

The same year, Epstein floated selling his Boeing 727 – believed to be the so-called Lolita Express – telling Keita: ‘I am told your uncle is trying to charter my 727. The same one you flew on to Europe. I suggest he buys it instead.’ 

No sale is believed to have occurred.

In January 2012, Keita set up a packed itinerary in Abidjan, including meetings with the president, the economy and interior ministers, and senior officials, including the late Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who later became prime minister.

Ahead of one engagement, she wrote: ‘Also what’s your maximum bed time? Hamed has something planned for you but I’m afraid it might go very late ( dinner at his house with wife + drinks somewhere+ private night at his penthouse( he knows what you like).’

Years later, Keita also appeared central to efforts to free Karim Wade, son of former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade.

After Wade was jailed for corruption in 2015, she begged Epstein for financial help to hire US lobbyists.

‘[Wade] is asking again if you could help with hiring a lobbying firm ( as I previously told you). Jeffrey, he really, really needs your help… A lot of his friends have disappeared, he has few one left and most people are afraid to help.’

Emails indicate Epstein sent $100,000. When Wade was freed the following year, Keita wrote: ‘Thank you for everything you have done for him!!!!’

The Daily Mail has approached Keita for comment. 

It comes as over 18,000 images and 2,000 videos – or 14 hours of footage – were published by the US Department of Justice on January 30 in a tranche of over three million files related to the late child sex offender.

The files show how the disgraced financier solicited explicit, self-filmed content from young women as a matter of habit, with several of the clips featuring girls in a state of undress.

In many, the young women are seen performing sexual acts in their bedrooms, often featuring the same large teddy bear in frame.

In one video, the paedophile is seen forcibly exposing an unidentified woman’s breasts to the camera, despite multiple attempts from her to remove his hands.

Also released in the files were several pornography films the American millionaire presumably downloaded onto his personal computer, including a vintage video entitled ‘Tiny Bubbles’, featuring Japanese adult entertainer Azari Kumiko.

Keita was a model who had worked in France before later returning home to take up a senior role at state oil storage firm Gestoci

The catwalk videos lend evidence to the theory that Epstein lured young girls into his control by masquerading as a Victoria’s Secret talent scout

The financier was accused of running ‘a vast network’ of underage girls for sex, with files recently released by the US Department of Justice, including photos, videos and emails taken from his private computers 

In another clip, the disgraced financier is seen forcibly exposing a woman’s breasts to the camera

Epstein also made young girls perform in semi-clothed catwalk auditions, lending evidence to the theory that the financier lured victims into his control by masquerading as a Victoria’s Secret talent scout.

Other disturbing clips show Epstein dancing alongside potential victims, as well as him enjoying private ‘entertainment’ by unclothed young females in a red-panelled study in his Paris home.

Several of the disturbing clips showing young girls stripping in their bedrooms seem to feature the same stuffed animal – a large, brown teddy bear.

The footage chimes with the kind of emails Epstein was sending potential victims, which show how the financier frequently solicited sexually provocative nude images and videos.

‘Where are my new photos?’ the sex offender wrote to one redacted email address on June 11, 2015.

‘My butt used to be smaller…now it hardly fits in the photo,’ the unidentified person replied.

‘When do you leave for home? phots are grat [Sic],’ Epstein said a day later, before asking again: ‘Take some nudes sexy if you are comfortable.’

‘Head straight , stand on toes , twist torso,’ he says to another unidentified person on Skype in 2012. ‘That pose nude,’ he adds, in response to a redacted photo. ‘Yes, much better, try sexy try to look straight at the mirror.’

The woman, clearly an aspiring model, questions whether she will always have to be photographed unclothed. ‘And I wanted to ask, if i do modeling, is it possible not to do nudes?’

‘You look great, be brave try new things,’ Epstein replies, adding later: ‘Try different pose experiment full frontal try … stop being afraid you keep what you want try a sexy look , laugh.’

Other videos published by the US authorities are explicitly pornographic in nature, including a video filmed at a beach, with the camera zooming in on a woman seemingly in a state of undress.

While there is no indication Epstein filmed the footage himself, it appears he downloaded the video onto his computer from a third-party distributor.

More than a dozen videos from the latest tranche show young women – their faces heavily censored – dancing for the late financier in his French property.

Epstein appears to be filming the footage from his desk, with several items placed on the table including a paternity test.

Sometimes, the girls are dancing in pairs or solo, and often are seen in a state of undress or removing clothes throughout the routine.

The red room where the dances were filmed is the same study where Lord Peter Mandelson was photographed in his underpants, next to a woman in a white bathrobe.

A photograph, which has been released as part of the Epstein files, apparently shows Lord Mandelson talking to a woman who is wearing a white bath robe

Emails published by the DOJ show the former Washington ambassador frequently stayed at the luxurious apartment on Avenue Foch, which overlooks the Arc de Triomphe, and also used it to host business meetings.

Another clip released by US authorities shows a potential victim dancing provocatively to a rendition of Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, wearing black stockings and festive tinsel.

In 1997, the serial sex offender assaulted model and aspiring actress Alicia Arden at a hotel in Santa Monica, after he told the then 27-year-old he was a talent scout for Victoria’s Secret.

When Arden arrived at his hotel room for what she thought was an audition for the brand’s catalogue, Epstein grabbed her, tried to undress her and said he wanted to ‘manhandle’ her, causing her to run away in tears.

Speaking to the New York Times about when the financier assaulted her, the 56-year-old said: ‘His weapons were his hands.’

She recounted how she went to the police the day after the attack, concerned that he could be using his connection to Victoria’s Secret to harm other women.

Her testimony remains one of the earliest known police records of an allegation of sexual misconduct against the American millionaire.