Next Model Management’s founder Faith Kates has stepped away from the company that she started, but neither she nor representatives at the company were speaking publicly about her departure on Tuesday.

The timing of her departure, which followed the recent release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was questioned in a report by The New York Post. That included emails that were exchanged between Kates and Epstein before Thanksgiving in 2017.

Media requests to Next and its cofounder Joel Wilkenfeld were unreturned. Reached by phone, Kates’ husband Jeffrey Kogan, a real estate investor, declined to comment Tuesday, stating that it was not his place to do so.

Representatives at the Model Alliance could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

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