Faith Kates

Faith Kates (born 1957) is an American model agent and talent agent. She was the co-founder, alongside Jean-Luc Brunel, of the Next Management modelling agency, and was its head until November 2025. Kates offered her support and "unconditional" friendship to Jeffrey Epstein after he was first convicted for soliciting a child for prostitution in 2009. She was born and raised on Long Island, New York.

In 1989, She co-founded the Next Management modelling and talent agency along with the alleged sex trafficker Jean-Luc Brunel, and Joel Wilkenfeld. Kates owned most of the company; the Brunel brothers owned 25 percent.

The agency came to represent clients including Alexa Chung, Milla Jovovich and Billie Eilish. Next distanced the company from and ended all legal ties with Kates, and stated that her relationship to Epstein "was completely and absolutely unknown to Next management and its top executives". They have three children, and homes in New York City and Long Island.

Epstein donated money to a charity founded by Kates, who referred a number of her models to Epstein over their 40 year relationship.