Maria Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s earliest accusers, says she told the FBI twice to look into Donald Trump after a disturbing encounter with him in the 1990s.
In an interview with The New York Times, Farmer said she met Trump in 1995 inside Epstein’s Manhattan office, while she was in her mid-twenties. She had been hired by Epstein to do some artwork. One night, she says Epstein called her to the office unexpectedly. When she arrived, Trump was there.
“He started to hover over her,” the Times reported. Farmer said she was scared as “Mr. Trump stared at her bare legs.”
Then, according to her account, Epstein walked in and told Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.” The two men left the room, and Farmer says she overheard Trump say he thought she was 16 years old.
Farmer says that moment was so disturbing, she reported Trump’s name to the FBI on two separate occasions between 1996 and 2006. She told the Times she did this because of what she saw and because Trump “seemed so close” to Epstein.
“I raised his name,” she said.
The White House denied the entire story. “The president was never in [Epstein’s] office,” said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”
Farmer, who also filed a lawsuit this year against the federal government for failing to protect Epstein’s victims, said that while she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate with other girls, that night in the office left her shaken.
She wasn’t the only victim in her family. In 1996, Maria was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Epstein’s Ohio estate. Later, she learned that her younger sister Annie, who was just 16, had also been molested by the pair at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.
Farmer reported Epstein to the FBI soon after learning what had happened to Annie. But she still questions what the agency did with her warnings. “There is certainly more to know,” Annie told The Independent last year. “I don’t think we know everything.”
Farmer did not testify in the 2021 trial that convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking, but her statements continue to raise questions about Epstein’s powerful connections—and what authorities did, or didn’t do, with the information she gave them.
According to the New York Times, her story is one of the “clearest indications yet” that Trump may appear in the Epstein files. Those files have become a political firestorm after Trump’s own supporters demanded their release. Trump, who once promised to make them public, recently said only a small portion—mostly grand jury testimony—would be released. Experts say that’s unlikely to reveal much.
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. Trump has never been charged with any crime in connection to Epstein, but their long friendship—from the late 1980s to the early 2000s—has drawn heavy scrutiny.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a bizarre note Trump allegedly sent Epstein for his 50th birthday. The message was written inside a card decorated with the silhouette of a naked woman and hinted at a shared “secret.”
