Maria Farmer

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  New York Academy of Art

• Full Name

  Maria Kristine Farmer

• Birth Date

  1970-01-01

• Occupation

  Visual artist

• Citizenship

  United States

• Place of Birth

  Paducah, Kentucky, United States

Timeline

• Farmer meets Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at her graduate thesis show at the New York Academy of Art. (Source: Artnet News)

  1995-01-01

• Farmer is allegedly sexually assaulted and held against her will at an estate in Ohio owned by Leslie Wexner. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1996-08-01

• Farmer files a formal criminal complaint with the FBI and NYPD regarding Epstein's conduct and possession of child sexual abuse material. (Source: Department of Justice / FBI Complaint)

  1996-09-03

• Farmer provides accounts of abuse to a Vanity Fair journalist, but the publication fails to include her story in their reporting. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2002-01-01

• Farmer gains significant media attention as a key accuser following the resurgence of the Epstein scandal. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2019-01-01

• FBI documents are released to the public, confirming Farmer's 1996 complaint and her early attempts to alert authorities. (Source: CNN Report 2025)

  2025-12-19

Maria Farmer

Maria Kristine Farmer (born 1969 or 1970) is an American visual artist. She came to media attention in 2019 when she claimed that in 1996, at the age of 26, she provided the first criminal complaint to the New York City Police Department and to the FBI, about the conduct of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She also claimed that she had described her and her sister Annie’s experiences of sexual misconduct by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to a journalist at Vanity Fair in 2002 but the publication failed to include them in their accounts, an event that was later corroborated by the journalist.

Web Search Results

• Maria Farmer

  Maria Kristine Farmer (born 1969 or 1970) is an American visual artist. She came to media attention in 2019 when she claimed that in 1996, at the age of 26, she provided the first criminal complaint to the New York City Police Department and to the FBI, about the conduct of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She also claimed that she had described her and her sister Annie’s experiences of sexual misconduct by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to a journalist at Vanity Fair "Vanity Fair (magazine)") in 2002 but the publication failed to include them in their accounts, an event that was later corroborated by the journalist. ## Early life [edit] [...] Farmer is a visual artist who primarily makes paintings and pastel drawings of individual people or groups of people. In the mid-1990s, while Farmer was in graduate school, she reported selling her artwork for $20,000 directly from her studio. At her graduate exhibition in 1995, the school's dean, Eileen Guggenheim, introduced Farmer to both Jeffrey Epstein, who served as a board member at the Academy from 1987 to 1994, and to his companion Ghislaine Maxwell. Although Farmer had already sold her painting for $12,000 to a German buyer, Epstein reportedly wanted to buy it at the reception for half price and Guggenheim urged Farmer to cut him a deal. Prior to the introduction, Farmer was aware that Epstein regularly attended the Academy's events and frequently observed art students working [...] Farmer stated, in an affidavit filed in support of a defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz, that Epstein and Maxwell came to the property in Ohio and sexually assaulted her. She managed to escape into another part of the house and barricaded herself inside by pushing furniture up against the door. She contacted [how?] members of her family, her mentor artist Eric Fischl, and reached out to authorities. Security guards on the property told her that she could not leave and she was held against her will for 12 hours. Farmer was eventually able to depart the scene when her father arrived, after driving from Kentucky to Ohio, to pick her up.

• [PDF] 2025-12-23.Garcia et al to DOJ OIG re Maria Farmer CLEAN

  2 Department of Justice, FBI Complaint by Maria Farmer (Sep. 3, 1996) (online at www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00006107.pdf) (Accessed Dec. 22, 2025). Mr. William Blier Page 2 Ms. Farmer bravely and directly accused Epstein of the possession and distribution of CSAM, and her complaint underscores concerns that there may have been actionable evidence of Epstein working with accomplices, his “potential buyers,” to exploit and harm young women and girls as early as 1996. Her complaint also clearly alleged that Epstein used threats to try to intimidate and control vulnerable women in his orbit—a well-documented tactic used by Epstein against other survivors.3 Ms. Farmer also alleges that, at the time of the complaint, she urged FBI investigators to look at other powerful [...] the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) investigate the FBI’s failure in the 1990s to adequately respond to or investigate allegations of misconduct by Jeffrey Epstein, including his alleged possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and to examine why subsequent internal Department reviews failed to meaningfully address that failure. In 1996, Maria Farmer warned the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were sexually abusing minors and producing CSAM. According to Ms. Farmer’s complaint, which was recently made public pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act: “Complainant stated that she is a professional artist and took pictures of her sisters (12 and 16 yrs) for her own personal art work. Epstein stole the photos and [...] DOJ internal reviews appear to have failed to fully examine or address these investigative failures; 4. Whether information related to these allegations was improperly suppressed, disregarded, or withheld, and; 5. What reforms or accountability measures are necessary to ensure such failures do not occur again. For survivors like Maria Farmer, her family, and all the people Jeffrey Epstein abused in the decades that followed this unanswered complaint, this was not merely a missed investigative opportunity—it was a profound betrayal by their own government. The continued failure to fully examine these early lapses perpetuates the very cover-up that allowed Epstein’s abuse to continue unchecked for decades. We are fighting to end the Epstein cover-up for survivors like Maria Farmer—who was

• Maria Farmer vindicated by Epstein files release; other survivors ...

  An FBI document released Friday included a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against Epstein related to child pornography. While the name of the complainant is redacted in the document, Maria Farmer’s lawyer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmed on CNN that the complaint was in fact made by her client. The “facts of complaint” part of the document says that the woman — who describes herself as a professional artist — had taken photos of her underage sisters for her own personal artwork. [...] The complaint, stamped September 3, 1996, underscores the fact that Epstein had been on the radar of law enforcement years before federal and state charges were brought against him in New York and Florida. In a statement provided by the law firm representing Maria Farmer, the Epstein accuser said the FBI had “failed” her and other victims over the years. Farmer’s sister, Annie, has previously said she was 16 when Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell abused her. Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, an emotional Annie Farmer said: “Just to see it in writing and to know that they had this document this entire time — and how many people were harmed after that date? We’ve been saying it over and over, but to see it in black and white that way has been very emotional.” [...] “I can’t find any of those,” she told CNN. “Is this the best that the government can do? Even an act of Congress isn’t getting us justice.” Freeman had previously told CNN that Maria Farmer’s original complaint was one of the key documents she would be searching for when the DOJ’s Epstein files were released. She said Friday evening that she is looking for more information from the files, including what the authorities did in response to Farmer’s complaint, when and why. “Why didn’t they act to stop this?” Freeman said in an email to CNN. What authorities did in response to the complaint is unclear. CNN has reached out to the FBI for comment.

• Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says the New York Academy ...

  “He was seated in this chair and he’s all flirty with me,” Farmer said, “but I thought he was married to Ghislaine.” She remembers Maxwell as a formidable woman who initially made her feel comfortable. “While we were there she literally rode up on a white horse,” Farmer added. [...] The next morning, she says she called Eileen Guggenheim and told her what happened. “I was sobbing and said Epstein and Maxwell are sick people and I think I could have been raped,” Farmer said. In response, Guggenheim allegedly “blamed me and mocked me.” Guggenheim said she does not recall this conversation. [...] “Sometimes he would just come to the school and walk around and watch the artists. He was at every single event,” Farmer told artnet News. He was “often lurking around, looking at the students’ studios.” The artist says she first met Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell at her thesis show in 1995 when the school’s then-dean of students, Eileen Guggenheim, urged her to sell them one of her paintings. (Guggenheim is now chair of the academy’s board.) The work depicted a man standing in a doorway observing a nude woman on a sofa, which was an allusion, Farmer recently told the New York Times, to Edgar Degas’s Interior(1868-69), also widely known as The Rape. A painting by Maria Farmer that she says Epstein bought from her thesis show at the New York Academy of Art.

• Maria Farmer

  Maria Farmer Earth Sperm, 2019 42 x 58, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer No You Cannot Have My Orb!, 2019 50 x 35, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer Essie and the Owls, 2019 44 x 60, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer What Children Know, 2019 36 x 50, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer After Supper, 2019 30 x 29, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer Triangles, 2019 50 x 50, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer Crop Circles, 2019 50 x 30, oil painting on canvas Maria Farmer The TR3B on a Sunday Afternoon (painting in progress) 40 x 52, oil painting on linen Maria Farmer ## Recent Artwork Recent fine art oil paintings from artist Maria Farmer. Death of the Salesmen 23 x 30, oil painting on canvas Maria Farmer Yesterday’s Ghost oil painting on canvas

• Gender

  female

• Educated At

  New York Academy of Art

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  visual artist

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/1970

• Place Of Birth

  Paducah