Maria Farmer reports Epstein/Maxwell assault to NYPD, five days before separate FBI complaint

Artist Maria Farmer reports the sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Les Wexner’s Ohio estate, the theft of nude photographs of her 16- and 12-year-old sisters, and threats made against her, to the New York Police Department. This is a distinct document from the FBI complaint Farmer filed five days later on September 3, 1996 (see 1996-09-03–maria-farmer-fbi-complaint-epstein-maxwell) — NYPD advised her to also call federal law enforcement, and her lawsuit against the government cites a copy of the NYPD police report bearing this date. USA Today’s December 2025 reporting, drawing on Farmer’s civil lawsuit and the DOJ’s Dec. 19, 2025 Epstein-files release, is the source establishing both dates; no earlier reporting on Farmer’s case (2019 Daily Beast, Business Insider, Guardian coverage) specified a precise date for either report.

This entry corrects a prior cascade-timeline entry dated 1996-08-26, which conflated the NYPD and FBI reports under an unsourced date matching neither document.