Annie Farmer

Annie Farmer is an American woman who was sixteen in 1996 when Jeffrey Epstein met her in New York City, where her older sister Maria Farmer was working for him, and who was abused that year by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Epstein's ranch in New Mexico. She was the fourth and last accuser to testify for the government at Maxwell's 2021 trial in the Southern District of New York, and the only one of the four to testify under her own name; the others were identified as "Jane," "Kate," and "Carolyn." Her sister had reported Epstein and Maxwell to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in August 1996, the same year.¹²

New York and New Mexico

Farmer testified that Epstein took her to a film in New York in 1996 and reached over to hold her hand and caress her leg: "I felt sick to my stomach. It was not something I was expecting at all." Epstein then invited her to New Mexico and paid for her plane ticket. Her mother, Janice Swain, testified that Epstein told her that her daughter "would be joined by 20 to 25 other students there."¹

At the ranch, Zorro Ranch near Stanley, Farmer testified that Epstein held her hand and rubbed her foot and arm during a film with no effort to hide it from Maxwell, and that Maxwell insisted on giving her a massage, told her to take off her clothes, and "pulled down the sheet and exposed my breasts and starting rubbing on my breasts." "I so badly wanted to get off the table and have the massage be done," she testified. Epstein later climbed into her bed without her permission.¹

Testimony at the Maxwell Trial

Farmer testified on December 10, 2021 before Judge Alison J. Nathan. Her former boyfriend, David James Mulligan, testified that she had told him she was "touched on the breast" during the massage and felt "fearful and awkward and helpless." Her mother testified that Farmer returned "quiet and withdrawn" and told her, "I don't want to talk about it and I'm not going to let it ruin my life." The government rested its case that afternoon. Farmer testified that she had accepted 1.5 million dollars from the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, the fund established by Epstein's estate.¹

The jury convicted Maxwell on December 29, 2021 of five of six counts, including transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; it acquitted on the count of enticement of a minor to travel.³

The 1996 Reports

In August 1996 Maria Farmer reported to the New York Police Department's Sixth Precinct and then by telephone to the FBI that Epstein and Maxwell had sexually assaulted her, that she feared they had abused one of her minor sisters, and that Epstein and Maxwell had stolen nude images she had made of her two minor sisters for her artwork and carried them from Ohio to New York. According to Maria Farmer's 2025 lawsuit against the United States, the FBI took no action, and federal agents did not interview her until 2006. The FBI's record of her 1996 report was released in December 2025 in the first wave of disclosures under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.²⁴