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A former employee of Jeffrey Epstein reported his interest in child pornography to the FBI in 1996. This report was recently revealed in newly released Epstein files. The woman expressed relief at being vindicated after years of doubt. She also voiced heartbreak that the FBI's inaction allowed further harm to victims.
A woman who once worked for Jeffrey Epstein filed a complaint to the FBI about his interest in "child pornography" in 1996, about a decade before investigators began scrutinizing his predatory behavior.
The woman, Maria Farmer, has for years said that she had called federal investigators in the summer of 1996, but the FBI had never publicly acknowledged her original report, even to Farmer. Some people following the Epstein case had accused her of inventing the story. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996. She broke down in tears.
"I've waited 30 years," she said. "I can't believe it. They can't call me a liar anymore."
Farmer said she was grateful to be "vindicated" but heartbroken that the FBI did not take steps to stop Epstein until years after her report.
"They should be ashamed," Farmer said, adding: "They harmed all of these little girls. That part devastates me."
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Brad Edwards, a lawyer who has represented many Epstein victims, said Friday night that if the FBI had listened to Farmer, the government could have stopped Epstein in the 1990s and prevented hundreds of victims from being abused. He said that the government until now has denied the existence of Farmer's report, and that it was "shameful" that it was kept secret.
"There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist," Edwards said.
An internal investigation of the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein case, released in 2020, made no mention of Farmer's original complaint.
The newly released report leaves Farmer's name redacted, describing her only as a professional artist. She had been hired by Epstein to acquire art on his behalf.
The complaint says that she had taken photos of her younger sisters -- ages 16 and 12 -- for her personal art work, and Farmer clarified in an interview that the photos included nude images. "Epstein stole the photos and negatives," the handwritten FBI report says. The report also says that Epstein had asked Farmer to take pictures of young girls at swimming pools and threatened to "burn her house down" if she told anyone about the photos.
Farmer said she did not hear from the FBI until a decade later, when a fuller investigation ensued, ending in a 2008 plea deal for Epstein in Florida. She said she had lived in fear after trying to report Epstein.
Farmer said that while the complaint captured part of her concerns, it did not capture all of them. She said she urged investigators to take a larger look at Epstein's orbit, citing his relationship with powerful people such as Bill Clinton -- then the sitting president -- and Donald Trump. She said much of her concern was about Epstein's companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, but the document does not include Maxwell's name or the names of other powerful people.
Farmer said she saw Trump in 1995 at Epstein's offices in Manhattan. She was in running shorts and said Trump came into the office and began hovering over her, staring at her bare legs.
Then Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying 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 has denied her account.
Farmer eventually broke from Epstein after what she described as a sexual assault at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell. It was then that she discovered that the nude photographs of her sisters were missing.
Farmer later spoke to her sister, Annie, who had her own problems with Epstein. Annie Farmer later testified at Maxwell's trial about she had been invited to Epstein's ranch in New Mexico when she was 16. There, he climbed into bed with her one morning to "cuddle." Maxwell, she said, had at one point given her a massage, rubbing her bare chest.Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now!
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