“These are the survivors still standing.” Maria Farmer says she survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein in 1996. Today, she has created paintings of fellow survivors “to portray how beautiful these women are and how strong they are.”
Maria Farmer is seen here working on seven portraits for her series, "The Survivors Project."There is one portrait missing from her collection: her own. Farmer, who says she is a survivor of Epstein, provided the earliest known criminal complaint about him to law enforcement.
Farmer said she first met Epstein in 1995 when she was 25 years old. At the time, she had just graduated from the New York Academy of Art and her art career was taking off. She said Epstein took home one of her paintings that night -- one that depicted the back of a dark-haired man standing in boxers in a doorway, looking at a blonde woman in a purple dress lying on an antique couch.
But just days into her new job, she said she started to see cracks in Epstein’s façade. For one, she said Epstein neglected to pay artists for the paintings she had acquired for him. She said she wanted to quit but Epstein convinced her to stay on in a different role -- one that required her to man the front door of his New York City townhouse, signing in his guests, and she said he told her she could work on her art there.
Farmer said Epstein led her into a security room of sorts that was stacked with monitors showing all the different camera feeds throughout the home. Farmer said there were other things that seemed to be off about Epstein, like the fact that she said he never seemed work and he told her he got “at least three massages a day.”
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