Gigi Hadid and her sister, Bella, have been named in the Epstein files, which were released by the U.S. Department of Justice and reviewed by PEOPLE. The emails, which also included an anonymous person asking how their father paid them to become models, suggested that their father had paid the agency. Following the release of these emails, a social media user commented that she had to unfollow Gigi due to her silence about being mentioned in the files. In response to this comment, Gigi responded by stating that she never had any affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein and that she has worked hard since her modeling agency signing in 2012.