NEWSGigi Hadid Says She's 'Sick to My Stomach' Over Learning Her Name Was Mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein Files
Gigi Hadid responds to her name being mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files in a recent Instagram comment.
April 5 2026, Published 2:11 p.m. ET
Gigi Hadid wasn't too happy to learn her name was mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The 30-year-old supermodel responded in now-deleted comment on social media recently how she felt about the situation.
Gigi Hadid's Comment Was Previously Deleted
Gigi Hadid's comment surfaced on X after it was deleted.
"Made me sick to my stomach,” she began her lengthy note. “Horrible to read someone you’ve never met speak about you that way. Especially in this context."
Hadid claimed she “never met the monster,” but believed the dead pedophile named her to “try to take responsibility of peoples careers in order to manipulate his victims.”
“I didn’t comment bc I don’t want to take away from the stories of real victims of his; but your comment made me realize maybe its not clear-and it’s important to let you know,” the catwalk queen said about not speaking up earlier.
Gigi Hadid claimed she 'never met' Jeffrey Epstein.
“I grew up privileged, yes. But my parents protected me and taught me the value of hard work, the same hard work that got them to this country and gave them careers,” Hadid went on.
The mother of one continued: "I’ve worked hard every moment since. To be named in those files, I think I was 20-21 at the time he would have written that email- is disturbing, and I want to state unequivocally that I have never had any affiliation with that disgusting human being."
Hadid was signed to IMG Models in 2013 and began her modeling career was she was just 18.
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The DOJ Released 3 Million Epstein Files in January
The pedophile's files were released earlier this year.
“May he rest in [fire emojis],” she concluded her comment.
The Department of Justice released over 3 million Epstein files to the public in January.
One email dated December 2015 mentioned Hadid's moniker as well as her sister Bella. The correspondence was between the financier and an unnamed individual.
Jeffrey Epstein died in August 2019.
“How did the Hadid sisters became [sic] models and make so much money?! I don’t understand,” the anonymous wrote to Epstein.
“You know,” he replied, also adding the girls' father, Mohamed Hadid, “paid the agency.”
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial a month later. He previously was arrested in 2008 for soliciting prostitution and for one count of soliciting prostitution from a minor.
He was released 13 months later and served the rest of his sentence under house arrest in Florida.
