Overview
- Ferretto, 50, stopped contacting her family on April 22 after returning to New York from a visit to Italy.
- Her relatives filed a report with prosecutors in Rovigo, which led Italy’s Foreign Ministry to engage U.S. authorities through diplomatic channels.
- Italian officials later confirmed she was located safe in the United States, with no public details on the circumstances.
- U.S. law-enforcement sources told the New York Post they had no missing-person report on file in New York, highlighting a discrepancy with the Italian case.
- Ferretto was an early public accuser of Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, a history that has renewed concern about the safety of witnesses in high-profile abuse cases.