Gigi Hadid Fires Back At Journalist Associating Her Mom Yolanda With Ghislaine Maxwell

Gigi Hadid came at her mom Yolanda Hadid's defense after a journalist linked her to Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Dutch journalist Henk Van Ess made a series of tweets about tracking Maxwell. According to him, she visited a doughnut shop near Hadid’s farmhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He also claimed that she was “friendly with the Hadid family” and the former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star even let Maxwell hide at their property.

“Thanks to @NWOGaction here are some photos of the place #ghislanemaxwell near #doylestown probably stayed in – the farm of Dutch born Yolanda van den Herik, now called Yolanda Hadid,” Van Ess wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

Gigi quickly came at her mom’s defense. According to the model, who is currently expecting her first baby, her mom learned about the issue from her because her fans were sending her Van Ess’ tweets. Gigi also questioned Van Ess’ claims that he emailed Yolanda twice.

“My mom, clearly from her timeline, almost never uses the twitter app.. this was only brought to her attention by me bc fans were sending me your tweets. She wouldn’t have seen your tweets & can not go back in twitter mentions that far,” she wrote on Twitter.

“In your tweet above you claim that you also emailed my mom- but the only email she has from you is from 5:11am EST this morning, so in your tweet, almost 24 hrs ago, claiming that you have contacted her, you had not yet even sent an email,” Gigi wrote in another tweet.

Meanwhile, Yolanda also addressed Van Ess' accusations and denied them. According to Yolanda, she doesn’t personally know Maxwell.

“I do not know or have ever associated with Ghislane- the first time I have heard about her or any of this was watching the documentary, like the rest of the world, on Netflix,” Yolanda wrote.

She admitted that they talked about Maxwell over dinner before her arrest and their family couldn’t believe why she was not already in jail. In the past couple of days, she has been hearing about Maxwell’s arrest and learned that she was arrested in New Hampshire, which is multiple states away from their home.

“So, I’m not sure how I have been brought into this narrative of yours, but I take these false claims very seriously. Please stop involving me. What that lady did is disturbing and she deserves to be in jail for a long time,” she added.

Yolanda also fired back at Van Ess and denied that he contacted her. She checked her DMs and didn’t find any message from the journalist.

“I just checked our DM’s to see where you could have contacted me for a comment before making such terrible accusations, and you’ve never sent me a message- see screenshot. You have, in fact, never asked for an official comment,” she wrote.