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Jeffrey Epstein's victim claims it was the British socialite who always set the trap



dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8535303/Jeffrey-Epsteins-victim-Maria-Farmer-claims-British-socialite-set-trap.html



July 17, 2020

## 'Ghislaine Maxwell was the mastermind': Jeffrey Epstein's victim who was the first to blow the whistle on him claims it was the British socialite who always set the trap

By Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail

Published: 17:25 EDT, 17 July 2020 | Updated: 17:25 EDT, 17 July 2020











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For talented young artist , it was the night she’d been working towards for months — her graduation show at the prestigious New York Academy of Art.

then 25, was ecstatic, having sold all three of her exhibited paintings for five-figure sums.

Then a senior staff member appeared at her shoulder, took her arm and pointed out two people she'd never seen before.

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outside New York court on July 15, 2019

'This couple here are going to buy your art . . . they’re very important benefactors of the academy,' she was told.

It was Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and they got the painting they wanted — a semi-naked man observing a sleeping girl, inspired by Edgar Degas’s The Rape — for $6,000, half the price had been offered earlier.

Fast-forward 25 years and this week younger sister gave an emotional statement to a Manhattan court about why Maxwell should not be granted bail.

Speaking via an audio feed from her home in Texas, psychotherapist one of three women whose claims are the basis for the criminal case against the British socialite, said Maxwell was a ‘sexual predator’ who had ‘never shown any remorse for her heinous crimes or the devastating, lasting effects her actions caused’.

, who says she feels guilty for unwittingly bringing her then teenage sister



into the orbit of Maxwell and Epstein, was the first person to report the pair’s alleged sexual abuse of underage girls in 1996. But her attempts to get the police and FBI to investigate the attack on , then 16, were ignored, leaving Epstein free to pursue his depravity.

The sisters’ story is shocking and their determination to get justice remarkable. Now, at last, their voices are being heard. testimony was a key factor in the judge’s decision to deny Maxwell bail and keep her in a New York jail cell before her trial next year — which is as it should be, told the Mail yesterday.

For her, Epstein — who was found dead in his remand jail cell last year — isn't the worst villain in this scandal.

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'That woman was much more sinister than Epstein, and to me, much more dangerous,' she says. 'She was definitely the mastermind. She was in charge.'

worked for Epstein, a financial guru, for a year, during which time she says she saw first hand Maxwell’s astonishing charm and her terrifying viciousness.

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