Maria Farmer, Jeffrey Esptein accuser, details chilling encounter with Trump: Who is she?
twice reported Donald Trump's connection with sex trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein
to the FBI. Farmer shed light on how the president may be mentioned in the Epstein files held by the Justice Department.
Focus has once again shifted to former associates of late disgraced financer and notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which includes sexual harassment allegations made in 1996 by artist Maria Farmer. She recalled President Donald Trump's visit to the sex financier and convicted pedophile's New York office.
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In an interview with The New York Times, she alleged that she had a disturbing encounter with the president in 1995. This comes as the Trump administration is facing scrutiny over the infamous Epstein files after the Pam Bondi-led DOJ declared that there was no more evidence to be released.
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Who is Maria Farmer?
-Maria Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein's first accusers has now linked Trump to the notorious sex offender. According to NYT, her original account involves a troubling encounter involving her younger sister at Epstein's New Mexico ranch.
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-Though Maria Farmer never accused Trump of criminal behavior, she recalled an incident in 1995 at Epstein's Manhattan office where Trump allegedly stared at her legs until Epstein intervened, reportedly saying, 'No, no. She's not here for you.'
-An artist in her 50s, Maria Farmer and her younger sister Annie both testified at
Ghislaine Maxwell
's sex trafficking trial. She claimed she urged the police in 1996 and later the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into Epstein's social circle.
-Maria Farmer was an aspiring American visual artist in the mid-1990s when she met Epstein, who hired her to acquire artwork. She met Esptein when she was a student at the New York Academy of Art.
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-Farmer has claimed she was introduced to Epstein by Elaine Guggenheim- a claim the New York Academy of Art has denied. She accused Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell of assaulting her at the Ohio estate of Les Wexner, according to First Post.
-Farmer said she took her concern about Epstein and his associates to the authorities. She said she first approached the New York Police Department's Sixth District in 1996. Nearly a decade later, in 2006, she was interviewed by the FBI.
-Farmer worked for Epstein in 1995 and 1996. Farmer said she later found out that Maxwell assaulted her sister Annie at Epstein's New Mexico ranch. Maria Farmer, who fled New York in the aftermath of the allegations, accused Maxwell of threatening her and trying to destroy her reputation.
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-For the past two decades, Maria Farmer has said she has maintained a low-key profile. She has been earning money selling antiques and restoring old houses.
-She was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2019. In 2020, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
-The White House has denied the incident ever occurred. 'The president was never in [Epstein's] office. The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep," White House communications director Steven Cheung said.
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