In Reply to: (link) what's the back story on this? posted by SagoBob on July 20, 2025 at 20:24:41
From NYT:
‘She’s Not Here for You’
The encounter with Mr. Trump, Ms. Farmer said, occurred in 1995 as she was preparing to work for Mr. Epstein. She said she told the authorities that late one night, Mr. Epstein unexpectedly called her to his offices in a luxury building in Manhattan, and she arrived in running shorts.
Mr. Trump then arrived, wearing a business suit, and started to hover over her, she said she told the authorities.
Ms. Farmer said she recalled feeling scared as Mr. Trump stared at her bare legs. Then Mr. Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying to Mr. Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.”
The two men left the room, and Ms. Farmer said she could hear Mr. Trump commenting that he thought Ms. Farmer was 16 years old.
After her encounter with Mr. Trump, Ms. Farmer said, she had no other alarming interactions with him, and did not see him engage in inappropriate conduct with girls or women.
The White House on Friday night contested Ms. Farmer’s account and cited Mr. Trump’s long-ago decision to end his friendship with Mr. Epstein.
“The president was never in his office,” said Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, referring to Mr. Epstein. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”
Reports to Law Enforcement
Ms. Farmer, an artist, worked for Mr. Epstein in 1995 and 1996, initially to acquire art on his behalf but then later to oversee the comings and goings of girls, young women and celebrities at the front entrance of his Upper East Side townhouse.
In 1996, Ms. Farmer said she went to stay at Mr. Epstein’s estate in Ohio in a complex developed by Leslie H. Wexner, the chief executive of the company that owned Victoria’s Secret. Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell came that summer.
Ms. Farmer said that after she was asked to give Mr. Epstein a foot massage, he and Ms. Maxwell violently groped her until she fled the room and barricaded herself in another part of the building. Ms. Farmer was an artist who did work on nude figures, and she also reported that partially nude photos she had of her two younger sisters were missing from a storage lockbox.
Over the years, Ms. Farmer has been attacked by people who questioned whether she could be trusted. She was not called to testify when Ms. Maxwell was prosecuted and convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Mr. Epstein to sexually exploit and abuse girls. (Her sister Annie did testify in the case about how Ms. Maxwell had massaged her bare chest after she had been invited to Mr. Epstein’s estate in New Mexico.)
But Ms. Farmer’s mother said she remembered hearing about the Trump encounter around the time it occurred, and that Ms. Farmer had first gone to the F.B.I. in 1996. Annie Farmer also said she remembered Maria sharing that she had told the F.B.I. about Mr. Epstein and powerful people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Clinton.
In her first interviews with The Times in 2019, Maria Farmer said that before she talked to the F.B.I., she first spoke to the Sixth Precinct of the New York Police Department. Police records show that she had done that in August 1996.
Law enforcement agencies have not released records of any F.B.I. report Ms. Farmer made in 1996, but handwritten notes from the interview agents did with her a decade later match her account, including that “6th precinct told MF to call FBI.”
The portions of those F.B.I. records that have been released do not mention Mr. Trump, but much of the account remains redacted.
The F.B.I. did not respond to a request for comment.