Overview
- The U.S. Justice Department’s newly released Epstein documents include a 2015 email thread that mentions Gigi and Bella Hadid by name.
- After online criticism over her silence, Hadid posted and then deleted an Instagram comment saying the mention made her sick and that she never met Epstein.
- In the emails, an unnamed correspondent asked how the sisters became models and Epstein replied with lines such as “you know” and “because they follow instructions.”
- Hadid explained that she met agencies with her mother, signed with IMG Models in 2012, and credits hard work while acknowledging her privileged upbringing.
- Coverage stresses that the files span hundreds of pages with many third‑party references, so appearing in them is not an allegation or evidence of a direct link.