Maria Farmer was born in 1969 or 1970 in Paducah, Kentucky to Frank Maria Farmer and Janice Swain.
25 Facts About Maria Farmer
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Maria Farmer has two younger brothers and two younger sisters.
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Maria Farmer relocated to New York City in 1993 to study at the New York Academy of Art.
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Maria Farmer earned her master's degree from the Academy in 1995.
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Maria Farmer attended a post-graduate workshop at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 1995.
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Maria Farmer is a visual artist who primarily makes paintings and pastel drawings of individual people or groups of people.
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Back in New York, Maria Farmer was recruited to work for Epstein, first as his art advisor, where she oversaw the acquisition of artwork by Chuck Bowdish and Damian Loeb for Epstein's collection.
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Maria Farmer continued to work for Epstein at the front desk of his New York mansion, signing in "tradesmen, decorators, and friends".
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Maria Farmer observed a large number of young girls coming and going from the house, and stated that Maxwell would leave on frequent missions to recruit girls for Epstein.
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Maria Farmer described Epstein showing her the security room at his New York mansion that was equipped with extensive video surveillance devices focused on the beds and toilets in the property.
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Maria Farmer reportedly saw lawyer Alan Dershowitz regularly visiting Epstein's New York home.
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At the time, Maria Farmer was living in a small walk-up apartment in Greenwich Village.
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In May 1996, Maria Farmer traveled to the Wexner property in Ohio in a rental truck with her art materials and supplies.
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The property was spacious but Maria Farmer was disturbed to learn after arrival that the home was guarded by Wexner's armed security personnel and she was required to phone Wexner's wife, Abigail Wexner, for permission to leave the home or property.
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Maria Farmer managed to escape into another part of the house and barricaded herself inside by pushing furniture up against the door.
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Maria Farmer contacted members of her family, her mentor artist Eric Fischl, and reached out to authorities.
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Maria Farmer was eventually able to depart the scene when her father arrived, after driving from Kentucky to Ohio, to pick her up.
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Later that summer, Maria Farmer learned that her younger sister Annie had been assaulted by Epstein when Annie had visited him at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico in April 1996.
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Maria Farmer called the New York City Police Department and the FBI on August 26,1996 and reported the assault.
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Maria Farmer has stated that she received multiple direct threats from Maxwell and Epstein, who called her clients and contacts in the art world in an effort to destroy her credibility.
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Maria Farmer was contacted once more in 2016, this time by lawyers who were working with Virginia Giuffre.
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Still in hiding, Maria Farmer recounted her experiences with Epstein and Maxwell to Stanley Pottinger and Bradley Edwards to assist in a better understanding of the defendants' patterns over time.
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In November 2019, Maria Farmer was interviewed by Anthony Mason for CBS This Morning.
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Maria Farmer appeared in a four-part Netflix series, released in May 2020, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, directed by Lisa Bryant and based on the earlier book of the same name by James Patterson.
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Maria Farmer created a seven foot long artwork on canvas about the Epstein abuse network which depicted individuals involved in the scandal in a style akin to Hieronymus Bosch.