Included in Friday’s release of Epstein files is a 1996 child porn complaint filed with the FBI from Maria Farmer, a professional artist who once worked for Jeffrey Epstein to acquire art on his behalf.
The FBI has never acknowledged to the public, or to Ms. Farmer, the complaint she filed which claimed that Epstein stole pictures and negatives she had taken of her younger sisters, aged 16 and 12 at the time, which included nude images. They were for her personal art work. Without public acknowledgement from the FBI, Farmer had been accused for years of making up her story.
“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
“Epstein stole the photos and negatives,” the handwritten F.B.I. report says. According to the report, Epstein had also asked Farmer to take photographs of young girls at swimming pools, and then threatened to “burn her house down” if she told anyone about the photos.
When she contacted the federal authorities in 1996, she was concerned about Epstein’s interest in child pornography, and urged them to look into his connections with powerful people like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as the activities of Ghislaine Maxwell.
After a decade, the FBI did reach out to Farmer ahead of the 2008 plea deal Epstein reached with authorities in Florida. She said she lived in fear after trying to report Epstein.
Farmer said she had seen Donald Trump at Epstein’s Manhattan office. She was dressed in running shorts, and Trump was hovering over her, staring at her legs. Epstein came into the room, and said to Trump, “No, no. She’s not here for you.” After the two men left the room, Farmer said, she could hear Trump commenting that he thought she was 16 years old.
The White House denies the story.
Maria Farmer left Epstein’s circle following what she said was a sexual assault at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell.
Annie Farmer testified at Maxwell’s 2019 trial that she was at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch when she was 16. There he had climbed into bed with her one morning “to cuddle.” Maxwell had also given her a massage in which she massaged her bare chest.
