Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. All the way back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
Maria Farmer came out and told everybody what was going
on at the New York Academy of Art with Jeffrey
Epstein and her experience. Well, at the time, the New
York Academy of Art and Eileen Guggenheim denied everything, said
everything was just a big lie and that Maria was
just telling falsehoods. Well, it turns out that Maria was
right once again. And now the New York Academy of
Art is going to give away all the money that
was donated to them by Jeffrey Epstein over the years,
and they're going to start reviewing their policies about philanthropy
and don her engagement. Now, remember Maria came out and
said what she said all these years ago, ninety five,
ninety six, put everybody on blast. And for all these years,
the New York Academy of Art, they knew what Jeffrey
Epstein was, They knew exactly the kind of scumbag he was,
and they knew that he had reach in their academy,
and they didn't care. But now now that people are
paying attention and that this story is breaking in a
way that they never thought possible. Well, now they're going
to donate the money that Jeffrey Epstein gave them over
the years. My opinion, too little, too late. You should
have addressed this when Maria brought it to your attention.
This article was published by The New York Times and
the headline New York Academy of Art gives away money
donated by Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by Dion Searcy.
The New York Academy of Art, where a former student
was among the first to complain to authorities about the
behavior of Jeffrey Epstein, announced on Friday that it was
giving away money that mister Epstein had donated after new
revelations about his involvement were made public. Yo, this isn't new.
None of this is new. You just weren't paying attention.
You were ignoring it. And the New York Academy of Art,
they most certainly knew what was up. There was a
petition about the New York Academy of Art, so the
whole entire we had no idea thing. That's bs they knew.
They didn't care. And that's because there wasn't an uproar.
Then there were only a few of us demanding justice.
But now that everybody has come around and they see
exactly what this is now, the New York Academy of
Art wants to act. Now, the New York Academy of
Art wants to be responsible. Well, too late, because you
already did what you did, and you ignored what you ignored.
Files recently released by the Department of Justice showed that
some of mister Epstein's ties to the Academy, which was
co founded by Andy Warhol, were more extensive than previously known,
with involvement years after he had been investigated in Florida
in connection with the sexual abuse of underage girls. It
was all well known. Maybe if the New York Times
was actually doing their job over the years, they would
have known this too. But instead they were busy causing division,
causing hatred and making everybody hate each other. And when
they were busy doing that, these people were busy getting
away with their crimes. The Academy said on Friday that
it would review its policies on philanthropy and the way
it engages with donors. The disgraced financier Pedophile, who had
served on the academy's board in the early nineties, had
been courted to sponsor a scholarship program, and he attended
the academy's fundraising events, including the Tribeca Ball and take
Home a Nude Auction? Well, isn't that fitting? Take home
a nude auction? Say what? Now? I'm telling you folks
that this art world is rife with criminality, and people
like Epstein and the people around them, they use the
high end art world to hide money. Real estate used
to be their main vehicle. Now it's art, not crypto art,
mark my words. Everybody knows that the Picasso isn't ever
going to lose any value, So why not buy one
if you have the dough to do it? And then,
of course you can hide it. You can fudge numbers,
and nobody is the wiser about how much you're worth,
or how much you've spent, or most importantly, how much
you should be taxed. That's the whole, entire point of
all of this. In a statement emailed to students and
alumni on Friday, the board express regret for the Academy's
long association with mister Epstein. It also said the chair
of the Academy's board would retire in April, a month
earlier than expected. She should have been out a long
time ago. Eileen Guggenheim, according to Maria, led her directly
into the belly of the beast, and then all these
years she was able to just keep going. How many
other girls were led to the belly of the beast?
That's certainly a question that should be asked. No, if
she was so comfortable doing it with Maria, do you
really think Maria was the only one? I highly doubt it.
Mister Epstein was jailed for thirteen months for state prostitution
crimes and was arrested again in twenty nineteen on federal
charges accusing him in trafficking dozens of girls, some as
young as fourteen, and engage in sex acts with them.
His twenty nineteen death in jail was ruled a suicide.
Oh well, in that case, pack it all up, folks.
Nothing to see here. The government told us what happened.
Why you don't believe them? What are you? Some kind
of panikin? The academy should not have accepted contributions from him,
allowing him to attend academy events or permitted him to
have any connection to programs involving students or other community
members after his criminal conduct had become known, the board
said in its email, which admitted to serious failures in
judgment and governance. If I was Maria, I would think
about suing the New York Academy of Art, especially with
them admitting it right here. We were negligent. Okay, cool,
Now you owe me a bag. Pretty simple. The school
plans to give sixty five nine hundred dollars to an
organization that helps traffic girls. The Academy had already given
away thirty thousand that mister Epstein had donated. Well, we'll
just keep this other sixty five to nine and we'll
have that on the stash. Nobody knows about that, so
we don't have to report it and we don't have
to donate it. That was the thinking, right or else
they would have donated all of it right away. But
instead they gave away thirty g's and they were like,
we gave away the money Epstein gave us while pocketing
sixty five nine typical, and please make no mistake, The
New York Academy of Art doesn't give a shit about
the girls who were abused. They care that they've been outed,
just like the rest of the bombs. The New York
Academy of Art opened in nineteen eighty two as an
anti abstractionist school and at teaching figurative drawing when traditional
methods had fallen out of favor. It attracted eccentrix. A
pet Boa constrictor was kept in one office, and Scandal,
a fiscal controller once embezzled one hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars, and it was known for elaborate fundraising parties,
where performances sometimes began after the shattering of a wine glass.
It's galleys draw celebrities and socialites. Yeah, well birds of
a feather and all right. And it makes me wonder
if Glane thought that this Art Academy was just another
new bile hunting ground. Remember that was what she called it.
I have to go find some new bials for Epstein.
So my guess is she probably used the New York
Academy of Art as one of those destinations. In nineteen
ninety three, Maria Farmer moved to New York to attend
the Academy and said she first met mister Abstein at
a gallery thesis art show for her graduation. She said,
the dean of the academy at the time, Aileen Guggenheim,
introduced her to mister Abstein and his longtime partner, You
mean co conspirator, right fellow scombag fellow, child abuse her
and bipedal serpent, That's what you mean, Layne Maxwell, and
told her to sell them one of her paintings at
a discount. Miss Gugenheim has said she did not recall
such an interaction, not that it didn't happen. Right, I
do not recall. Those words mean something. It gives you
an out. Oh I don't recall. So later on down
the road, if it's proven that you did meet her
or this did go down, you can say, oh, well,
I didn't remember at the time. Just another way for
people to be cute with their words. Ms Farmer, when
she was in her twenties, went on to work for
mister Ebstein, acquiring art on his behalf and later managing
the entrance to a townhouse that he was renovating. She
said that he and Miss Maxwell altered her while she
was staying with them at an estate in Ohio. Soon
after returning to New York, in nineteen ninety six, Ms
Farmer contacted the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
No action was taken by authorities at the time. And
that's another big problem, right, because we know that that's
true now we have the contemporaneous documentation to back it up.
So Maria was telling the truth about contacting the FBI
and telling them about Epstein and Maxwell. So why would
she be lying about this again? It doesn't make sense. So,
as far as I'm concerned, it's the New York Academy
of Art that's doing the lying, and Maria has was
and is telling the truth. She has said that She
also talked about the encounter with Miss Guggenheim, who is
now the chair of the Academy's board. Miss Farmer has
said that Miss Guggenheim did not appear to take her
concerns seriously. Miss Guggenheim told The New York Times in
twenty nineteen that the details Miss Farmer shared about mister
Epstein did not rise to a level that would require intervention.
Oh no, not at all, especially considering he's paying you
a ton of money. Right, Miss Guggenheim got to make
sure that the sacred cash cow is doing all right.
Miss Guggenheim did not immediately respond on Friday to a
request for comment. A lawyer for miss Farmer the client comment.
Alumni of the Academy in twenty twenty circulated a petition
calling for more safety for students. The academy commissioned an
internal investigation by a law firm, which interviewed Miss Guggenheim
and others. Miss Farmer did not cooperate with the investigation.
The firm noted, Yeah, no shit, they were trying a railroader.
That's why if you were abused and then ignored, literally
for decades, would you then agree to some kind of
investigation years later just to make them look good. I
wouldn't either, So good for Maria. According to a copy
of the investigation, Maria Farmer had told Miss Guggenheim the
creepiest thing happened with mister Epstein. She explained how mister
Epstein and Miss Maxwell had called her into their bedroom
and asked her to join them in bed, but that
Miss Farmer freaked out and left. Don't put yourself in
those kinds of situations, Miss Guggenheim told Miss Farmer. According
to the report, which said Miss Farmer did not mention
she was touched or assaulted. Don't put yourself in those
kinds of situations. Huh, why are you wearing that dress?
You shouldn't go out dressed like that. You're asking for it?
Is that what Miss Guggenheim saying here. The law firm
called Walden mocked and heron at the time the report
was filed, noted in the report that it had previously
represented Miss Guggenheim before investigating her. Of course, why not.
This is what they do. They go and get these friendly,
quote unquote outside external sources to do the investigation. But
it's really just their friends. The law firm found a
way evidence that Miss Guggenheim knew about any sexual abuse
of Miss Farmer, according to the investigation. In twenty twenty,
the Academy issued an apology to Miss Farmer and announced
new safeguards for students. All kinds of bs. But you're apologizing,
that's interesting. Anastasia Tarasenko, who graduated from the Academy in
twenty seventeen, has been combing through Justice Department filings about
mister Epstein and was troubled by new revelations that show
Miss Guggenheim engage with mister Ebstein after his misdeeds in
Florida were known. Well, yeah, they didn't care. How many
times do you have to see it now? They knew
exactly what this dude was. They just didn't care because
he was greasing the wheels. He was given them money,
you know, bringing people to their events, whatever it might be.
Why should they care about some vulnerable girl who's being
abused by their buddy. Why would they care about that?
Fundraising is a huge part of keeping that school alive.
Miss Garrisenko said, my concern comes from a place of
love for the school. I want to protect the space
and protect the students. Emails from Justice Department filings indicate
that Miss Guggenheim was interviewed by the FBI about Miss
Farmer's encounter with mister Epstein in two thousand and seven.
Miss Guggenheim told agents that Miss Farmer returned from Ohio
very upset and that she did not know the details,
but believe Miss Farmer was hurt, possibly by a verbal
suggestion made by Epstein. Now everything we know about Epstein,
do you think it was a verbal suggestion or do
you think that he actually assaulted Maria? In later years,
mister Epstein attended the Academy's Tribeca Ball toward the studios
and purchased artwork. It was incredibly wonderful of you to
come back, Miss Guggenheim, wrote in a twenty twelve email
addressed to mister Ebstein and sent through his personal assistant.
She added, I just want you to know how much
Russ and I and the whole school appreciate your involvement,
because he was piecing them off. And it's a whole
different level of scummy when you're in charge of a
school and you put Jeffrey Epstein before the students, a
whole lass different level of scum. Miss Guggenheim's husband, Russell
Colgate Wilkinson, is a former chair of the Academy's board.
In twenty thirteen, she invited mister Epstein to sponsor a
portrait scholarship the File Show, and in March of the
following year, mister Epstein's assistant Emailedham to assure him that
he was on the top of the waiting list for
the sold out Tribeca Ball, writing that Eileen Guggenheim will
do everything she can to get you a table. Sounds
like somebody that doesn't know him. Huh, I don't really
know this guy, but let's get him a table. Six
days later, mister Epstein's assistant wrote to him to say
that a table had been secured by miss Guggenheim. Eileen
is very happy and says she looks forward to seeing you,
the assistant, Leslie Groff, wrote. In Friday's email announcing changes
at the Academy, The board said it would create an
ethics committee to review policy, including those that govern philanthropy
and donor engagement. The email also said that miss Guggenheim
would be stepping down from the board a month earlier
than planned. Officials said that her resignation for this year
had been in the works since last May. The Academy's
website notes that she and her husband will be honored
next month at the Tribeca Ball. They don't care. They'll
give them all these honors and all this other stuff,
and they'll just step down and they'll move on and
keep living their lives. Meanwhile, the people that were abused,
people like Maria, have to live with this shit every day.
And the saddest part is all of this was known,
and now they're trying to act like, you know, it's
a big revelation, it's not. They ignored it, and now
that all of you are so fired up, they're being
forced to deal with it and to try and drown
out some of the criticism of the noise. Eileen Guggenheim
is gonna step down, But the truth is, it's not
just Eileen Guggenheim. It's the whole facility. All the trustees
know what's up. The whole board knows what's up, and
they all knew what Epstein was, And the truth is
they didn't care because for them, it's always profits over people.
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