Faith Kates and Jeffrey Epstein: Inside a Decades-Long Relationship in the Modeling World (3/27/26)

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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.

I don't think I'm telling you folks anything new when I tell you that the modeling world is filled with a bunch of seedy, disgusting people.

And it's not just men.

You have people like Faith Kates, who knew exactly what Epstein was and simply didn't care.

I mean, after the allegations from Virginia first came out,

Faith Kates was still advising Jeffrey Epstein on what he should do.

How he should move, who he should talk to, what sort of events he should go to,

and the kind of donations that he should be making to insulate himself from the allegations that are being made.

And this comes on top of what we already knew from 2009.

So keep that in mind when Faith Kates says she has no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was.

Because in my opinion, not only did she know what Jeffrey Epstein was, she helped enable him.

Today we have an article from the Guardian and the headline.

Faith Kates, the woman who introduced models to dear friend Jeffrey Epstein.

This article was authored by Lucy Osborne.

How executive at the top of the modeling industry had a close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

and introduced them to women on the agency's books of guardian investigation has found.

So not only was she introducing him to women,

she was introducing him to women that were working for her.

Women that were part of her agency and women that she obviously had a responsibility to.

But that didn't matter to Faith Kates, did it?

As long as her buddy good old Jeffy is having a great time and he's meeting new women

who cares about all these other girls who were abused, who are their lives ruined.

Does somebody like Faith Kates? That doesn't matter.

Until last November Faith Kates ran next management modeling and talent agency,

which is represented the likes of Alexa Chung, Mila Jovavic, and Billie Eilish,

a position that she held for decades as founder of the business.

She stepped down quietly just weeks before the first major Epstein files were released,

saying she intended to focus on charity work.

Oh, that's always the excuse.

Did you see the charity work that I did for so and so?

I helped so and so over here, and that means that I'm a good person, right?

No, it doesn't mean you're a good person.

All it means is that you know that that strategy has worked throughout history

and you're going to try and employ it as well.

But I think that people are a hip to that sort of nonsense these days,

and they know that these kind of rich people are always trying to drape themselves

in armor made out of charitable giving.

Links between Kates and the late sex offender have previously been reported

but analysis of documents published by the US Department of Justice

reveals a much deeper relationship than previously known.

With email showing Kates, secretly took business advice from Epstein

and discussed multimillion dollar loans.

And if you notice, that's an ongoing theme when it comes to all these people in Jeffrey Epstein.

They all wanted something from them and they were willing to look the other way

in order to achieve their goals.

And that's why I find it so laughable when they come out after the fact

and act like they had no idea who Epstein was, what he was doing.

Or the fact that he was an absolute sick degenerate.

They all knew. They just didn't care.

Kates appears to have met Epstein regularly,

including on one occasion, with the then Prince Andrew

at a New York department store in December of 2010.

The week of Andrew Mound Baton winzores now infamous visit to the city

to supposedly call off his friendship with the financier.

Oh yeah, we know that's exactly why he went to New York.

What, you wouldn't fly across the Atlantic to go and tell some child molester

you couldn't be his friend anymore?

Come on. Don't you have any honor?

Don't you have any kind of compassion for a guy like Jeffrey Epstein?

Well, that's what Prince Andrew wants us to believe.

That he flew all the way across the Atlantic

because he no longer wanted to be friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

But he just decided to stick around for a few days

and sleep on Old Boy's couch.

Kates, 68, offered her support

and unconditional friendship after Epstein was first convicted

for soliciting a child for prostitution in 2009.

She was still sending friendly emails

weeks before he was arrested again in 2019.

More troubling is that across their nearly 40-year relationship

it seems Kates connected a number of her models with Epstein

raising serious questions for the woman

who has been responsible for the careers

and ultimately the welfare of thousands of young women.

There is no evidence to suggest that Kates

was aware of Epstein's offending prior to his 2009 conviction.

Okay, no evidence, no smoking gun.

But I don't think it's that big of a leap to think

that all these people that were around him knew what he was doing

and you're going to have a real hard time convincing me otherwise.

The revelations prompted next, which until now

was not commented on its founder's relationship with the sex offender

to thoroughly distance itself from her.

In a statement to the Guardian, a spokesperson said the company

was working to end all legal ties with Kates

and that her relationship with Epstein was completely

and absolutely unknown to next management

and its top executives.

We had no idea.

We all have Epstein amnesia.

Jeffrey Epstein, who's that?

Never heard of the guy.

It's always the same nonsense.

Always the same line.

Always the same playbook.

And it's always met with the same response.

Oh, well, they didn't know. Come on.

How's anyone supposed to know?

Meanwhile, everybody knew, including people working at airports,

people that lived around Jeffrey Epstein,

and certainly people that were at parties with them.

A spokesperson for Kates said that she never

put a model in harm's way by sending them to an inappropriate

go-seize or meetings, adding,

Epstein was a master manipulator.

People around him knew only what he wanted them to know.

Oh, that's the new narrative.

Have you noticed that everybody's calling them

a master manipulator all of a sudden?

Let me translate that for you.

Master manipulator means somebody I wanted money from.

And somebody I got money from.

And now that he's dead,

and that people are asking questions about our relationship,

I'll just say that I got manipulated.

He's not alive to argue the point.

He's not alive to say that that's not true.

So that's going to be the narrative.

And you see that becoming a big talking point

for a lot of these people.

Oh, he manipulated me.

He was the world's greatest manipulator.

Or was it that you were just greedy?

There are more than 5,000 mentions of Kate's in the files,

although some are duplicates,

the emails between the two are frequent.

The messages are often effusive in tone,

with Kate's regularly telling Epstein,

how good of a friend he was,

at one point telling him,

I really do love you like a brother.

One of the first emails in the file

was sent while Epstein was in prison

for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Kate's road, I am,

and will always be your friend.

Unconditionally, will always be there for you.

Can you imagine?

Somebody that gets arrested for what Epstein was arrested for,

somebody that's accused of what Epstein's accused of.

And that's the message you send them.

Epstein's interest in the modeling industry

is demonstrated in the discussions between the two.

In his diary,

shows him scheduled to meet Kate several times

at the company's New York office during the 2010s.

Kate's began connecting Epstein to next models years earlier,

according to interviews.

By the 90s, the industry had developed a practice

of introducing models to businessmen

on connected to the fashion world.

Oh, I wonder why?

I'm sure it was for a conversation, right?

I'm sure it had nothing to do

with a bunch of disgusting degenerate old men

trying to get their grubby paws on young women.

I'm sure that had zero to do with it, huh?

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It was at one such dinner organized by Kate's in 92

that Stacey Williams remembered

being introduced to Epstein.

Williams, then one of next top models,

said that about three months later,

she was taken by Kate's to a party,

hosted by Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel,

where she met Epstein again.

Williams went on to have a relationship with Epstein.

She said it was consensual,

but that some of the events that took place

within the confines of the relationship were not.

Including, when she alleged,

she was grown by Trump,

and what she believed was part of a twisted game

between the two men.

The president has denied the allegations.

I mean, at some point we have to say to ourselves,

is everybody just lying?

Or, is it true that Donald Trump is just a degenerate

and considering the body of evidence that we have,

I'm gonna go with Donald Trump's degenerate?

More than a decade later, Kate's allegedly arranged

for another of her top models.

Barbara, Stoy enough, to meet Epstein.

Stoy enough was already working for Victoria's Secret

as a lingerie model,

but her dream was to become

a Victoria's Secret Angel,

one of the official faces of the company.

Stoy enough told the Guardian that Kate suggested Epstein

could help and that she later met him

and next office in New York.

He told me to stand up and hoick my dress up to see my legs.

Then he asked me to lift my dress from behind

to see how my butt was, she said.

It's like buying a horse.

I have zero idea why anybody

will let their child get involved in modeling.

It is unbelievably disgusting,

the whole industry is just gross.

At the time, she said she thought nothing of the request.

It was normal for a lingerie brand

because it was normal for a lingerie brand

to want to see a model's body.

Years later, when she saw Epstein news coverage,

she felt disgusted.

A spokesperson for Kate's said the meeting,

never happened and added,

her supposed interview with Epstein

in the middle of next class and closed offices,

is not credible on its face.

She's not credible but Kate's is.

Sorry, I don't believe that.

Listen, anybody who was palin' around with Epstein

for all those years?

Anybody that was sending emails to Epstein like that?

I don't believe them.

And I believe that they know a lot more

than they're letting on.

And they're lucky that I'm not the prosecutor

because I charge everybody with Rico.

And then I'd let the chips fall where they may.

You know, like they do to the rest of us?

God forbid you get involved in some kind of

quote-unquote illegal gambling.

Oh, they're gonna come kick in your door.

But if you're faith, Kate's,

setting young girls up with Epstein.

Ah, no big deal, come on.

There's no evidence for that.

Over the next years that followed,

Stoyanov, who was signed to next for about 15 years,

said she saw Epstein with Kate's,

numerous times, at their offices.

In around May of 2004,

Kate's allegedly sent former next model,

seen a Chech, then 20 to Epstein's New York home,

to ask if he would help her travel to fashion shoots

in his private jet.

Chech remembers she wrote his address

on a yellow post-it note.

How could you send people,

young girls, to Jeffrey Epstein?

It is just unconscionable.

After Chech arrived,

she said that he asked to look at her hands.

She recalled that he then said,

ugh, your nails are so dirty.

You're not the kind to grow we take on the jet.

She said she left interiors,

and it wasn't until years later

that she realized the man,

who insulted her, was Epstein.

It was like a brick in my stomach,

realizing I dodged the bullet, she said.

Sarah Ziff, a former next model,

who now runs model alliance,

which campaigns against systemic sexual abuse

in the fashion industry,

wasn't sent to Epstein by Kate's.

However, she said,

she believed Kate's or someone else,

at the agency,

gave him her home address in 2000 or 2001,

when she was 18 or 19.

She had previously been introduced Epstein

by a fellow model,

and recalled him taking an interest in her schooling.

Later, she received a letter from him that said,

Sarah,

there are great writing courses

at the new school, My Tree.

Ziff said,

she believed Epstein was offering to pay,

for her education,

at this New York school.

She didn't take him up on the offer,

later earning degrees from Harvard and Columbia.

I know that the model who invited me to meet Epstein,

did not have my address,

Ziff told the Guardian,

I do know that next had that address on file.

None of the models of the Guardian interviewed,

alleged that they were abused by Epstein.

Too high profile,

he knew better,

what he was looking to do,

is bring girls in to the inner circle,

new recruiters,

new people to be part

of his sexual Ponzi scheme.

That's what he was looking for.

Because at this point,

remember Epstein was already

bringing girls in from Europe.

We're talking about vulnerable girls here,

Brazil, Europe, et cetera.

So that was his MO at that time.

An exposed person said,

at all times,

conducted its operations

with integrity,

and with the highest regard for the safety

of all of our models.

Emails in the DOJ files suggest that Cates

continued to connect models

to Epstein during the 2010s,

even after his first prison sentence,

and that you would meet women

at Epstein's request

or connect them to other agents.

In 2011, Epstein email Cates,

a numbered list of three women's names,

a few hours later,

Cate responded,

I can get two,

that's what you asked for,

ask me for,

for, stand by.

I can get two,

that's what you asked me for,

stand by,

two for what,

faith Cates?

That same year,

Epstein appears to ask his assistant

to get names of girls

from Cates

for a gala event dinner.

And the email Cates asking,

if she had any aspiring actresses

for a dinner

with a Hollywood director,

Woody Allen.

Another fantastic guy, huh?

Let me just have relations

with my stepdaughter.

In 2017,

they discussed a former next model,

who is now

an established internet personality.

Cates described her as stunning,

and sent them,

her bust, height,

and weight measurements,

along with what appears

to be a number of photographs

of her,

which were redacted

in the files.

That same year,

they discussed another model

who did not realize her name,

was in the files

until she was contacted

by the Guardian.

The model,

who was still represented

by next,

and did not want to be named,

said,

I felt shocked and grossed

out like,

lies the biggest predator

of our time,

typing out my name.

What was this for?

Imagine being just some

random model,

and somebody hits you up

and they're like,

hey, your name is

in those Epstein files,

you know that, right?

I can imagine the panic.

What do you mean

my names in those files?

I had nothing to do

with Epstein,

and then you find out

that he was like,

creeping on you?

Talk about gross.

Even as women started

to go public

with disturbing allegations

against Epstein,

Kate's continued

to offer her support.

She appeared to tell them

that women coming forward

with allegations about him,

were doing so only

to sell their stories

to the press.

Money motivates people

she wrote.

Later,

in response to another

abuse allegation,

against Epstein,

she told them,

she should be so lucky,

people are nuts.

She should be so lucky,

so lucky to be abused,

so lucky to

have Epstein molest them

when they're children,

or young adults.

Boy, some people

have all the luck, huh?

Faith, Kate's.

After extensive coverage

of Virginia Roberts

allegations in 2011,

she advised them

to lay very low

and donate to projects

that would do good

for others.

This will make people

talk about you

in a positive way,

she wrote.

See what I mean

about the armor?

Oh, let's just go

and donate some money,

and that makes

everything better.

That same year,

Epstein,

appears to have donated

$50,000 to the Ovarian

Cancer Research Fund,

of which Kate's

was president,

and gave Kate's

a Prada handbag

for her birthday.

She emailed them,

thanking them

for the bag,

and for being my friend.

Signed with her signature

line of kisses,

the following year,

he gave her

a $12,000 stove

for Christmas.

So does anyone

really think that

faith, Kate's

cared about these women

over her buddy,

Jeffrey Epstein?

Because I'm not

seeing that.

It was around the same

time that Epstein

offered of significant

investments

appear to have begun.

In July of 2010,

he emailed her,

about buying a $5,000,000

property together

for her and her family.

Kate's spokesperson

insisted that

no investments

from Epstein

ever materialized,

and the Guardian

evidence that

suggests she received

any loans.

In emails from

September,

2010,

and across the following

months,

Kate seemed desperate

for the purchase

to go ahead.

Are you avoiding

me?

This is what I

didn't want to happen.

I need to talk to you

today, as I don't

want to lose this

apartment.

It's perfect for me

and my family,

and my kids are

excited.

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I won't ever let something like this come between 30 years of friendship.

So it looks like Epstein was dicking her around, right?

Yeah, sure, I got you all by the department for you.

Then he goes, sir.

Beginning in 2015, Cates appeared to have accepted guidance from Epstein about the modeling agency,

and over the next three years, he and sometimes his accountant Richard Khan seemed to have acted

as advisors.

Epstein also suggests that Epstein directed Cates on how to buy out, next then co-owners,

the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.

He offered her $6 million loan to do so, which he told her must be kept secret.

Epstein wrote, I will lend you only the $6 million offered to buy Golden Gate out for

five to start.

My name cannot be involved, of course.

Two years later, Epstein continued to act as an advisor to Cates behind the scenes on

how to make the deal happen.

He appeared to send her a script of what to say to Neil Attenborough, the managing director

of Golden Gate.

In another email, Epstein says, let's get rid of Neil.

A spokesperson for Golden Gate said Jeffrey Epstein's identity and advisory role were proactively

concealed from the Golden Gate Capital team throughout the sale process.

Well, that all tracks.

That was Epstein's MO, come in as a shadow donor, not let anybody know that he was involved,

and keep him moving.

A spokesperson for Cates said none of the loans suggested by Epstein materialized and

Epstein never had a financial interest in next.

In the months after Epstein killed himself in prison, allegedly and in jail, in August

of 2019, next bought out Golden Gate as planned.

A spokesperson for next said the final deal happened without cons involvement.

These Cates longstanding and highly personal relationship with Epstein were unknown to

next management until recent disclosures of the Epstein documents.

The spokesperson said, her actions were neither authorized by, nor known to next, and

were at all times, her own.

The spokesperson added to the extent Miss Cates, independent actions, impacted or involved

next clients and employees, we are deeply sorry.

Well, that fixes everything there, sorry folks.

I guess all these girls can just, you know, pick up the pieces and move on and be fortified

by the fact that these people are sorry.

Meanwhile back here in reality, nobody cares about your apologies and nobody cares about

your revisionist history.

You all knew what the deal was, you know what Epstein was doing, and you knew the scope

of it.

So look, all these modeling agencies that were involved with Jeffrey Epstein, all these

modeling agencies in general, in my opinion, they should all be looked at.

As the sad truth is, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't the first didler, and he won't be the last.

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