Prosecution rested its case against Ghislaine Maxwell. Here's what happened today in court.
Farmer is already known publicly as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims. Along with her older sister, Maria, Farmer has spoken in multiple interviews and appeared in the 2020 Netflix docuseriesVanity Fairon Graydon Carter’s property spooked the magazine’s editor or because Ward’s reporting did not meet the publication’s legal standards, depending on who you ask).
Most telling were her journal entries about the trip. One shortly after she got home gushed about falling in love with the city. “New York is such an amazing city,” she wrote, saying she “felt really comfortable there” and like she could see herself living there one day. She described Epstein as seeming “down to earth and easy to talk to.” A few weeks later, she made another entry, filling in details like their other outings and shows they saw.
On another occasion, Maxwell showed her how to rub Epstein’s feet with Maxwell demonstrating on one foot while Farmer rubbed the other. Farmer said he made “groaning noises” during the massage. After that happened, Farmer said she just wanted the trip to be over. She’d thought they were interested in her as a student, she said — she’d even brought three-by-five-inch flashcards with talking points on a paper she was working on in school about British authors. She said after the massage, Maxwell seemed “disinterested” in the conversation about her academics. “All these experiences made me feel like they had a very different interest in me,” she said. “I wanted it to be done.
The defense also tried to characterize the incidents as non-sexual, seeming to suggest that the actions Farmer described did not constitute abuse. “After Thailand you said you were not raped,” Menninger said, citing Farmer’s earlier testimony of what she’d told her mother about her New Mexico experience. “Yes,” Farmer said. “You said you were not sexually abused,” Menninger said. “I said I wasn’t raped,” she said. “ You meant that you were not sexually abused,” Menninger said.
In the afternoon, Farmer’s high school and college boyfriend David Mulligan testified. Mulligan and Farmer are still friends who speak around once a month, he said. He has a masters in special education but currently works as a baker. He said she’d told him over time during their relationship about her experiences with Maxwell and Epstein. The topic had come up when they were starting to become “physically affectionate with each other,” he said.
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