Overview
- Hadid addressed the mention in a since-deleted reply to a March 29 Instagram comment, saying the files made her “sick to my stomach” and insisting she has never had any affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein.
- The DOJ files include a December 2015 email where a redacted sender asked Epstein how Gigi and Bella Hadid “became models and make so much money,” to which he replied “You know,” later rejecting a claim their father paid an agency and writing, “Because they follow directions.”
- She said she initially stayed silent to keep attention on victims and called being named at age 20 or 21 disturbing.
- Hadid outlined her career start, saying her mother took her to agency meetings before she turned 18 and that she signed with IMG Models in 2012.
- Outlets covering the release note the DOJ dump spans millions of redacted pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act and stress that appearing in the files is not an accusation of wrongdoing.