Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
In this episode, we're diving right back into those core documents,
and this time we're taking a look at the motion
to intervene made by Maria Farmer. So let's get right
back to it. Case number nineteen DASH CV DASH one
zero four seven four DASH NRB Plaintiff Maria Farmer Buyer
Attorneys Boys Schiller Flexner, LLP for her complaint against defendants
Darren kay and Dyke and Richard D. Con in their
capacities as the executors of the estate of Jeffrey Edward Epstein,
upon personal knowledge as to her own acts and status,
and upon information and belief, and to all other matters
as follows nature of the acts one. This suit arises
out of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assault of Plaintiff two. Maria
Farmer was sexually trafficked by Epstein and co conspirator as
part of his organized ring of procuring young females for sex.
As an aspiring artist, Maria believe that Epstein's connections to
the art world would help further her career. When he
offered her a position to procure art forum, Maria began
working for Epstein in his Manhattan mansion, performing a variety
of tasks, including procuring art and manning the guest check
in at the front door of the home. During the
course of her employment for Epstein, Epstein and Glene Maxwell
violently sexually assaulted Maria while she was working on an
art project at Epstein's guest house on Less Wexner's Ohio estate,
and threatened to ruin her career and her life if
she told anyone about the assault. Three. Epstein's trafficking scheme
involved recruiting young females by making false promises and using
his wealth, power and threats to intimidate the females into
submission to his demands. The same pattern was repeated numerous
times with numerous young women four. As United States District
Judge Kenneth Marrath found, from between about nineteen ninety nine
and two thousand and seven, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more
than thirty minor girls at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida,
and elsewhere in the United States and overseas. In addition
to his own sexual abuse of the victims, Epstein directed
other persons to abuse the girls sexually Epstein used paid
employees to find and bring minor girls to him. Epstein
worked in concert with others to obtain miners not only
for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual
gratification of others. Doe one versus United States three point
fifty nine f Dot supp Dot three D. Twelve oh
one twelve oh four Southern District of Florida, twenty nineteen five.
Epstein organized his sex trafficking network to obtain hundreds of
young females for himself for sex, and also lent those
females to other powerful and wealthy individuals to be sexually abused. Six.
Epstein conspired with others and hired staff to maintain and
keep secret this network of sexual abusers for years, which
sprawled throughout Epstein's residences in New York, Florida, New Mexico,
the United States, Virgin Islands, and Paris. Epstein's preference was
to have three different girls a day for his sexual pleasure. Seven.
Despite his significant criminal activity, in two thousand and eight,
Epstein received a shockingly minimal charge, pleading guilty to a
single Florida state law charge of procuring a minor for
prostitution and a non prosecution agreement with the U. S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Unknown to the
public and the victims at the time, Epstein's lawyers were
pressuring the government to commit to the NPA without informing
the victims. Epstein's multiple victims were kept in the dark
and told to be patient while Epstein's lawyers worked to
protect them and other potential co conspirators from prosecution. Epstein
served one year in jail, but was afforded the privilege
of being able to leave the jail to go to
work for twelve hours per day, six days per week.
Number eight. The NPA allowed Epstein to escape proportionate punishment
for his actions and to continue operating his sex trafficking
enterprise with Liberty nine. A few years later, Epstein flippantly
referred to his sexual abuse of multiple miners and the
slap on the wrist that he received for it. In
a twenty eleven interview with The New York Post, billionaire
pervert Jeffrey Epstein is back in New York City and
making wise cracks about his just ended jail stint for
having sex with an underage girl. I am not a
sexual predator. I'm an offender, the financier pedophile told the
Post yesterday. It's the difference between a murderer and a
person who steals a Bagel set Epstein, Amber Sutherland, billionaire
Jeffrey Epstein, I'm a sex offender, not a predator. New
York Post, February twenty fifth, twenty eleven. Ten. In August
twenty eighteen, just one year before his death, Epstein told
a New York Times reporter that criminalizing sex with teenage
girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in
history it was perfectly acceptable. James B. Stewart the day
Jeffrey Epstein told me he had dirt on powerful people,
New York Times, August twelfth, twenty nineteen eleven. When plaintiff
was twenty six years old, Epstein added her to his
long list of victims by committing sexual assault and battery
against her. As such, Epstein is responsible for battery and
intentional infliction of emotional distress pursuant to New York common law.
The damage to plaintiff has been severe and lasting twelve.
This action has been timely filed pursuant to NYCPLR Section
two fifteen eight and ay, which provides that a plaintiff
shall have at least one year from the termination of
a criminal action against the same defendant to commence an
action with respect to the event or occurrence from which
the criminal action a rouse. A criminal action against Epstein
with respect to the sex trafficking enterprise from which Plaintiff's
claims arise was terminated on August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen thirteen.
Any statute of limitations applicable to Plaintiff's claims, if any
is told. Due to the continuous and active deception, duress,
threats of retaliation, and other forms of misconduct that Epstein
and his co conspirators used to silence as many victims, including plaintiff,
Epstein's actions deprived plaintiff of the opportunity to commence this
lawsuit before his death. Until his death, plaintiff feared that
Epstein and his co conspirators would harm her or her family,
or run her life if she came forward. Fourteen defendants
are equitably stopped from asserting a statute of limitations defense.
Allowing defendants to do so would be unjust. Epstein and
his employees intimidated each of his victims into silence by
threatening their lives and their lifelihoods. They therefore prevented plaintiff
from commencing this lawsuit before his death. By using threats
along with his wealth and power, Epstein was able to
escape punishment for his intolerable and brutal crimes against countless
young women and underage girls for the duration of his life.
Parties fifteen. Plaintiff Maria Farmer is a citizen and resident
of Arkansas. Sixteen. Defendant Darren ky Endyke is sued in
his capacity as an appointed executor of the Estate of
Jeffrey Epstein. Seventeen Defendant Richard D. Con is sued in
his capacity as an appointed executor of the Estate of
Jeffrey e. Epstein. Jurisdiction and venue eighteen. Jeffrey Epstein was
a citizen of the United States domiciled in the US
Virgin Islands. At the time of his death, Jeffrey Epstein
maintained a residence in the Southern District of New York.
As the legal representatives of the Estate of Jeffrey e. Epstein,
Darren ky Endyke and Richard D. Con are deemed citizens
of the US Virgin Islands. Nineteen. The amountain controversy in
this action exceeds the summer value of seventy five thousand
dollars excluding interest and cost, and is between citizens of
different states. Accordingly, jurisdiction is proper under US Code twenty eight,
Section thirteen thirty two. Twenty Venue is proper in this
court as Epstein's sexual abuse of plaintiff began in New York,
where he recruited her to be part of his organized
sex trafficking ring twenty one. Many of the events giving
rise to these causes of action occurred in the Southern
District of New York, where a substantial amount of Epstein's
property is located. Thus, venue in this district is proper
under US Code twenty eight, section thirteen ninety one B
and two. The factual allegations a Epstein sex trafficking Enterprise
twenty two. Jeffrey Epstein was widely renowned as a billionaire
who used as a connections to powerful individuals and seemingly
unlimited wealth and resources to create a web of trans
continental sex trafficking that served himself, his co conspirators, and
some of the most powerful people in the whole world.
Twenty three. Epstein owned multiple residences and frequently traveled between them,
including at nine East seventy first Street, New York, New York,
and at forty nine Zoro Ranch Road, Stanley, New Mexico,
where the illegal sexual crimes against plaintiff occurred. Epstein conservatively
valued his New York Town home at fifty five million,
nine hundred and thirty one thousand dollars. Epstein conservatively valued
his New Mexico ranch at seventeen million, two hundred and
forty six thousand, two hundred and eight dollars. In addition,
Epstein owned residences in the Virgin Islands, Florida, France, and
even on his own island, Great Saint James Island, where
his transcontinental sex trafficking of hundreds of young women servicing him,
his co conspirators, and wealthy and powerful individuals around the
world occurred twenty four. At all times material to this
cause of action, Jeffrey Epstein utilized his seemingly unlimited power,
wealth and resources, as well as his deep connections to
powerful and politically connected individuals, to intimidate and manipulate his
victims of sexual abuse. Twenty five, Epstein and his co
conspirators had perfected a scheme for manipulation and abuse of
young females. As part of the scheme, a female recruiter
would approach a young female and strike up a conversation
in an effort to quickly learn about the young female's
background and any vulnerabilities they could expose. The recruiter would
then manipulate the young female into coming back to one
of Epstein's residences by offering the young females something she needed.
At times, the recruiters lure would be a modeling opportunity,
money for education, help for the young female's family, and
the whole host of other related offers depending on their
target situation. Once in the residence, the recruiter and Epstein
would work in concert to impress and intimidate the young
female with displays of vast wealth, including having employees that
were butlers and maids formally dressed around the house. They
would also strategically place photographs of very powerful political and
social figures amongst photographs and art displaying nude females in
an effort to normalize the sexual abuse. They would also
normalize the sexual abuse by placing a massage table and
spa related products around the massage area in an effort
to legitimize the area where the abuse was set to occur.
Once abused, Epstein and his co conspirators continue to manipulate
the victims using their financial power, promises, and threats to
ensure that the victims returned as directed and remain compliant
with their demands. All right, folks, that's going to do
it for part one. In the next episode, we're going
to pick up with part two and finish off with
Maria's complaint. All of the information that goes with this
episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone,
and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode,
we're going to pick back up with Maria Farmer's complaint
against the Epstein of state down in the US Virgin
Islands b The arrest, prosecution, and death of Epstein twenty six.
The sexual trafficking ring described herein started at least as
early as nineteen ninety five and continued up until at
least July second, twenty nineteen, when the Attorney's Office for
the Southern District of New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking, conspiracy,
and sex trafficking and violation of US Code eighteen, Section
fifteen ninety one. He was arrested on July eighth, twenty nineteen,
pursuing to the SDN wise sealed to count indictment, which
is attached as Exhibit A twenty seven. The indictment described
Epstein's conduct and his abuse and trafficking of females in
the same trafficking operation he used to abuse in Traffic
Plaintiff twenty eight. Epstein's last will and testament. The will
was executed on August eighth, twenty nineteen, at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center. The witnesses were Maria Cologne Miro and Goldnorra Tally.
The will included afid davids from Darren k and Dyke
and Richard D. Coon in which they swear an oath
of willingness to serve as executor and appointment of local council.
Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center on August tenth, twenty nineteen. Thirty Epstein's last
will and testament was filed on August fifteen, twenty nineteen,
in the Probate Division of the Superior Court of the
Virgin Islands. Thirty one Darren k and Dyke and Richard
Dcon filed a certificate of trust in the Superior Court
of the Virgin Islands for Epstein's nineteen fifty three trusts
on August twenty six, twenty nineteen. See Certificate of Trust
in the Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey e. Epstein,
Probate number st Dash nineteen dash pb dash eighty, Superior Court,
Virgin Islands, August twenty sixth twenty nineteen thirty two. Epstein's
will was entered into probate on September six, twenty nineteen,
and the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands accordingly authorized
Darren Kandyke and Richard D. Con to administer Epstein's estate.
See Order for Probate in the Matter of the Estate
of Jeffrey e. Epstein. Probate number st Dash nineteen dash
pb dash eighty, Superior Court, Virgin Islands, September six, twenty nineteen.
Letters Testamentary in the Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey e. Epstein,
Probate number st Dash nineteen dash pb dash eighty, Superior Court,
Virgin Islands, September six, twenty nineteen thirty three. The will's
first article directs Epstein's executors to pay from my estate
all expenses of my last illness, my funeral and burial expenses,
the administration expenses of my estate, and all of my
debts duly proven and allowed against my estate. The will
further directs that, after the payments and distributions provided in
Article first, Epstein gives all of my property, real and personal,
wherever situated to then acting trustees of the nineteen fifty
three trust thirty four. Following Epstein's death, SDNY submitted a
proposed null prosqui order in the criminal matter against him,
because it was required by law to do so. After
Epstein was deceased, on August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, US
District Judge Richard Berman formally dismissed sdny's indictment against Epstein,
terminating the criminal action against them. Plaintiff's claims are therefore
timely under ny CPLR Section two fifteen eight and A.
See Maria Farmer thirty five. Armer was born on November
twenty eighth, nineteen sixty nine. Her parents divorce when she
was young, and her mother struggled to financially support Maria
and her siblings. In nineteen ninety three, Maria moved to
New York City to pursue art thirty six. In approximately
nineteen ninety five, Maria was an accomplished artist and graduate
student at the New York Academy of Art. She met
Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, a British socialite known for recruiting
young girls for Epstein, at one of her art openings
in New York. Epstein noticed Maria's art work and offered
to help her career if she sold a piece of
artwork for him for half price. Maria agreed and sold
the painting to Epstein thirty seven. Epstein asked Maria many
personal questions, including if she had a father, and other
questions about her life and her family. Maria told Epstein
that her parents were divorced and that she and her
family were struggling financially. Thirty eight. Epstein later offered Maria
a job to purchase art for him in New York,
and she accepted thirty nine. Eventually, Epstein modified Maria's job
duties to focus on monitoring and keeping records of who
entered Epstein's New York mansion. In her position at the
front door, she observed that Maxwell was regularly bringing school
age girls to the mansion and that the girls were
always escorted upstairs. Among the guests that came to the mansion,
Maria observed Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer, on a number of occasions,
and observed that he would go upstairs at the same
time the young girls were there. Forty Maxwell described her
role to Maria as recruiting models for Epstein and told
Maria that the girls were interviewing from modeling positions with
Victoria's secret a lingerie retailer. Maria witnessed Maxwell approaching young
females on the street and talking to them outside of
the mansion. Maxwell would leave the mansion claiming that she
had to go get girls for Jeffrey, and referred to
the girls she was recruiting as new buals forty one.
At the time, Maria was unaware of the sex trafficking
conspiracy and believe the girls and young women were being
recruited for modeling positions forty two. Epstein also made very
clear to Maria that he was incredibly wealthy, powerful, and
regularly in contact with world leaders. In fact, in his
New York mansion, he had photographs displayed of significant political
figures To ensure that young females entering the home would
know that he had extensive government connections. Epstein was not
to be disobeyed, and he made this clear by words
and actions that there would be consequences if Maria did
not comply with his demands. Forty three, Epstein and Maxwell
asked Maria questions about her family. Maria often would use
her family members as her subjects for her artwork, so
she had several photographs of her siblings, including her younger
sister Annie. Epstein and Maxwell started asking a number of
questions about Annie, and Maria told them how smart Annie
was and how she hoped to go to a great college.
After seeing photos of Annie, Epstein told Maria that he
wanted to fly Annie to New York for a visit.
Maria thought Epstein was simply generous, since Maria had explained
how much she missed seeing Annie. What Maria did not
realize was Epstein was intending to groom Annie for sexual abuse.
Forty four, Epstein paid for plane tickets to fly Annie
to New York. During the visit, Epstein took Annie and
Maria to a movie. During the movie, without Maria's knowledge,
Epstein groped Nannie against her will. Thereafter, Annie left New
York to head home without telling Maria that Epstein groped
her during the movie. Forty five, after Annie's visit to
New York, Epstein began to call Annie and Maria's mother
to discuss Annie and to falsely claim that he was
interested in helping Annie with her goal of going to
a great college. He eventually convinced Annie's mother to allow
Annie to fly to his ranch in New Mexico at
the age of sixteen, where Maxwell and Epstein assaulted her
forty six. During the course of her employ with Epstein,
he directed Maria to become an artist in residence at
billionaire lest Wexner's Ohiowa state. At the time, Wexner was
the chief executive of the parent company of Victoria's secret Epstein,
and for Maria that she would be staying in Epstein's
thirty thousand square foot guesthouse that was located on Wexner's
Ohioa state. Forty seven, During Maria's time at Wexner's estate,
Epstein and Maxwell visited Epstein requested a foot massage from Maria.
Maria found the request to be disturbing, but complied because
Epstein was her employer. Forty eight, after complying with his
request for a massage, Epstein invited Maria to sit on
the bed where he was watching television. Maxwell then joined
them on the bed. Epstein and Maxwell proceeded to attack
Maria physically against her will, including bi violently sexually assaulting
Maria forty nine. Maria fled from the room and called
the police, but the police did not respond to her.
Desperate for help, Maria then called her father for help.
Despite demanding to be allowed to leave the property, Wexner's
security personnel held Maria against her will and did not
let her leave the property for several hours, even after
she pleaded with them and told them about her assault.
They eventually let Maria leave with her father, who had
driven from Kentucky to Ohio to get Mario away from
Epstein and Maxwell. Fifty after Maria returned to New York
from Ohio, Maxwell called on behalf of Epstein and threatened
Maria in order to keep her quiet, We're going to
burn all your art, and I just want you to
know that anything you ever make will be burned. Your
career is burned fifty one. Instead of letting Maxwell's word silencer,
Maria reported her assault to the sixth Precinct of the
New York City Police Department. The NYPD referred Maria to
the FBI, and Maria followed their instructions and called the
FBI to make a report of the abuse. To the
extreme detriment of Maria and also countless other victims who
came after her, authorities ignored Maria's reporting efforts and took
no action. Fifty two. Maria also called her younger sister, Annie,
who was overseas studying at an educational seminar for high
performing high school students. During the call, Annie shared with
Maria that she too had been assaulted by Epstein and
Maxwell in New York and New Mexico fifty three. Frustrated
that the authorities did not appear to be taking action
in the hopes of exposing the crimes that Epstein and
Maxwell were committing, Maria and Annie decided to share their
stories with Vanity Fair magazine. Tragically, for Maria and Annie,
Epstein threatened to intimidate the magazine, and Vanity Fair bent
to those threats, ultimately publishing a profile of Epstein without
mentioning the sisters or their allegations. Fifty four. Once Epstein
and Maxwell learned that Maria had revealed their sexual abuse
to Vanity Fair, they embarked on a campaign to destroy
Maria's reputation and art career. They called Maria's clients and
other individuals wolves in the art community in New York
and were ultimately successful in shutting her out of all
art related opportunities. Fifty five, Maxwell again called Maria to threatener,
but this time threatened her life. I know you go
to the West Side Highway all the time. While you're
out there, just be really careful because there are a
lot of ways to die out there. Afraid for her safety,
having informed the NYPD, FBI, and media to no avail,
Maria moved several times to try and hide from Epstein
and Maxwell. Her fear of Epstein's power was exasperated by
the fact that the state and federal authorities, as well
as the media, were not taking action against Epstein. Fifty six.
Maria was deeply impacted by her harrowing time with Epstein.
She underwent breast reduction surgery because she was unable to
forget Epstein and Maxwell's sexual assault. Fifty seven Maria suffers
extreme emotional distress from an experience that has affected her
for her entire life. Fifty eight epstein sexual assault and
battery of Maria continues to cause her significant distress and harm.
First cause of action battery fifty nine. Plaintiff repeats and
re alleges the allegation stated above and paragraphs one through
fifty eight, as if fully set forth here In sixty
Epstein intentionally committed to battery by sexually assaulting plaintiff when
she was a young woman. As described above, Epstein intentionally
touched intimate parts of Plaintiff's body in an offensive and
sexual manner without her consent. Sixty one. Criminal action against
Epstein with respect to the same sex trafficking enterprise from
which Plaintiff's first cause of action arises was terminated on
August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, less than one year prior
to the filing of this complaint c NYCPLR Section two
fifteen eight A sixty two. As a direct and proximate
result of Epstein's conduct, Plaintiff has in the past and
will in the future continue to suffer ECPs dream, emotional distress, humiliation, fear,
psychological trauma, loss of dignity, loss of self esteem, and
invasion of her privacy. Second cause of action intentional infliction
of emotional distress sixty three. Plaintiff repeats and re alleges
the allegation stated above in paragraphs one through fifty eight,
as if fully set forth here in sixty four. As
a direct result of these allegations, is stated, Epstein committed
intentional infliction of emotional distress against plaintiff. Sixty five. Epstein's
actions described above constitute extreme and outrageous conduct that shocks
the conscience. Epstein's plan to recruit Entyson assault plaintiff goes
beyond all possible bounds of decency and is intolerable in
a civilized community. Sixty six. Epstein knew or disregarded the
substantial likelihood that these actions would cause plaintiff severe emotional distress.
Sixty seven. A criminal action against Epstein with respect to
the same sex trafficking enterprise from which Plaintiff's second cause
of action arises was terminated on August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen,
less than one year prior to the filing of this complaint.
See n y CPLR. Section two fifteen eight A sixty eight.
As a direct and proximate result of Epstein's conduct Plaintiff
in the past and will in the future continue to
suffer extreme emotional distress, humiliation, fear, psychological trauma, loss of
dignity and self esteem, end invasion of her privacy, prayer
for relief. Wherefore, Plaintiff respectfully requests judgment against defendants awarding compensatory, consequential, exemplary,
and punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial,
cost of suit, attorney's fees, and such other and further
relief as the Court may deem just and proper jury demand.
Plaintiff hereby demands a trial by jury on all causes
of action within this pleading. This was dated November twelfth,
twenty nineteen, and it was signed by Joshua Schiller. All Right, folks,
that's going to do it for Maria Farmer and her
claim against Jeffrey Epstein's estate. All of the information that
goes with this episode can be found in the description box.