AUSA: "The government calls Annie Farmer."
Judge Nathan: "Annie Farmer may come forward."
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The witness states and spells her name.
The judge gives a limiting instruction to the jury, saying that her allegations about "physical contact" between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in New Mexico were not illegal.
She was 16 at the time there.
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Prosecutor: “Can you see anyone in this courtroom who has ever given you a massage?”
Farmer identifies Maxwell in the courtroom.
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Asked about her career, Farmer replies.
Describing her family's financial situation growing up, she says: "Money was tight. It had often been a stressor since my parents were divorced."
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She describes her siblings, including Maria Farmer.
Their profile in the New York Times: "The Sisters Who First Tried to Take Down Jeffrey Epstein."
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The Sisters Who First Tried to Take Down Jeffrey Epstein (Published 2019)
Nine years before any police investigation, Maria and Annie Farmer reported the troubling behavior of Jeffrey Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell. No one would act.
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Annie Farmer says Jeffrey Epstein purchased a ticket for her to go to New York.
She says that she was excited to see her sister, and as she moves onto Epstein, defense makes a hearsay objection.
Sustained.
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Annie Farmer says she met Epstein in New York but not Maxwell.
(Note: Corrected a typo.)
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The government introduces a photograph of herself from around the time she met Jeffrey Epstein.
She says she was 16 years old in the photograph.
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Q: Where did you meet Epstein?
A: At his home.
"It was a very grand home. I was staying with my sister in her apartment."
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Flashback to Ghislaine Maxwell's bail hearing in July 2020:
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“She has never showed any remorse for her heinous crimes or the devastating, lasting affects her actions caused.”
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They saw the movie "Primal Fear," she says.
"He right away tried to hold my hand and caress and hold my foot and my arm," Annie Farmer says, referring to Epstein.
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Annie Farmer says Ghislaine Maxwell "sat and held one of [Epstein's] feet" and instructed her to massage the other.
"I just watched what she was doing and she instructed me."
"And so I did what she told me."
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"I felt very uncomfortable," Annie Farmer says of the massage. "I wanted to stop, and I was hoping it’d be over quickly."
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Q: Did Maxwell give you a massage?
A: Yes, she did.
Annie Farmer says she set up a table in the room where she was staying.
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Q: What were you wearing during the massage?
A: Nothing.
Asked why, she responds: "She told me to get undressed."
Asked to clarify who, Farmer says Maxwell.
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Q: What happened once you were laying on your back?
Annie Farmer says Maxwell "pulled the sheet down," "exposed her breasts," and touched her breasts.
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Annie Farmer recalled having a "sense" that Epstein might be able to see her during the massage.
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She recalled Epstein coming into the room and saying that he wanted to cuddle.
Q: Did you want to cuddle with Epstein?
A: No.
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Annie Farmer describes moving home to Phoenix.
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Asked if she wrote in her journal about her trip to New Mexico, Annie Farmer says no.
She says she didn't want to think about it.
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Asked why she kept the boots, Annie Farmer says at first she shoved them in the back of her closet.
Agents then asked if she had them, she says.
Then, she says she found them and she wore the boots.
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Asked what she told her mother after the trip, Annie Farmer said: "I told my mom I was not raped and I didn't want to talk about it."
Late summer of 1996.
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Q: Did you tell the FBI that Maxwell had given you a massage?
A: Yes.
Asked why Annie Farmer said she wanted to "reclaim" the boots by wearing them again, she says: "It was a dark memory and I had felt so taken advantage of by them both."
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Annie Farmer said she struggled to step forward because it was a "shameful" memory but she found that she wanted "accountability" and "these people being stopped."
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Asked if she has any financial stake in the outcome of this trial, the witness replies: "I do not."
Cross examination will begin.