Faith Kates Shlevin**, the principal of **Next Management LLC**, a New York City modeling agency, appears in more than 2,400 documents seized by federal investigators as part of the Jeffrey Epstein case — placing her among the most frequently cited figures in the entire DOJ archive.
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The documents, spanning at least 2011 to 2016, show repeated direct communication between Kates and Epstein at his personal email address. Lesley Groff, Epstein's longtime executive assistant, repeatedly served as an intermediary urging Epstein to return Kates's calls — including a July 2014 message that read: "Please call Faith Kates...she is in the office and available."
A Modeling Agency at the Center of the Archive
Next Management LLC is a New York-based talent and modeling agency. Documents recovered from Epstein's email accounts show that Kates's official Next Management email account was used in virtually all correspondence with Epstein.
Every email from Kates carried the agency's legal disclaimer: "Next Management, LLC and any affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this message or any attachments."
In the archive's entity network, Next Management connects to Epstein with a co-occurrence weight of 441, and to Kates with a weight of 546 — making her the single strongest named link to the agency in the entire document set.
"No Girls You Want Him to See?"
Document vol00011-efta02697871-pdf, dated March 21, 2012, captures Epstein writing directly to Kates from his personal iPhone. The message reads in full:
"No girls you want him to see?"
The document does not identify who "him" refers to. It was sent from the personal account jeevacation@gmail.com — the same account Epstein used for private correspondence with close associates throughout the period covered by the archive.
The message is one of dozens of direct exchanges between the two. On June 28, 2012, a separate email thread shows Kates writing to Epstein: "Today where ru" — and Epstein replying "Paris" from his iPhone. That exchange, documented in vol00011-efta02699800-pdf, reflects the casual, ongoing nature of the contact.
Lesley Groff as Intermediary
Lesley Groff, Epstein's executive assistant, appears as an intermediary between Epstein and Kates on at least two documented occasions.
Document vol00011-efta02705669-pdf, dated September 3, 2013, shows Groff sending Epstein a note with the subject line "Faith Kates" and the body: "Please call Faith Kates."
Almost a year later — July 16, 2014 — another message from Groff to Epstein, captured in vol00011-efta02714184-pdf, carries the same subject line and reads: "Please call Faith Kates...she is in the office and available."
Granting that the messages are brief, they indicate that Kates's contact with Epstein was frequent enough that Groff tracked and relayed her calls as a routine part of her duties.
ICE, DEA, and Immigration
Beyond the direct email correspondence, the entity network in the DOJ archive reveals that Kates and Next Management co-occur in documents alongside references to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with a connection weight of 333, and to the DEA with a weight of 148.
The modeling industry frequently involves international talent and visa documentation. The archive does not make explicit what those ICE and DEA co-occurrences represent in relation to Kates. But their scale — ICE at 333 across 2,400 documents — is among the higher co-occurrence figures in the archive for a figure connected to Epstein's personal email network.
A Long Correspondence
The document record stretches from January 25, 2011 — the earliest email vol00010-efta02035297-pdf shows Kates writing to Epstein at 12:09 AM — through May 23, 2016, three years after Epstein's 2008 Florida conviction.
A June 2012 email chain (vol00010-efta02033826-pdf) shows Groff writing to Kates with the subject line: "FW: Thanks Faith...can you give me the total?" — suggesting some form of financial accounting was underway between the two organizations.
By March 2015, documents show Kates forwarding correspondence from Mike Lieberman of Mintz, Levin, a Boston-based law firm, to Epstein and Lesley Groff. That email, vol00011-efta02712010-pdf, carries the subject "Fw:" and relays a message from the attorney noting he had "tried his number half-dozen times — no answer."
2,400 Documents
The DOJ archive's entity system registers Faith Kates with 2,389 document mentions, with activity first recorded on October 13, 2011, and the last captured reference dated September 3, 2013 — though direct emails from Kates to Epstein in the archive extend through May 2016.
That total places her among a small cluster of non-staff figures with over 2,000 archive appearances — a group that includes Epstein's bankers, lawyers, and the inner circle of assistants who managed his daily operations.
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This analysis references publicly released documents from the Epstein case archive. All individuals mentioned are presumed innocent unless convicted in a court of law. Language such as “documents indicate” reflects what appears in source materials, not conclusions of guilt. Readers are encouraged to review the cited source documents directly.