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One Year Later: Maria Farmer Writes to Virginia Giuffre on the Anniversary of Her Passing (4/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to take a
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  look at a letter that was written by Maria Farmer
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  that was published by USA Today, and it's a letter
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  to Virginia talking about all the progress that's been made
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  and how Virginia and her legacy continues to play a
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  gigantic part in all of that. So we're just going
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  to read the letter without any sort of commentary. For me, Virginia,
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  I've missed you every day. It's been a year where
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  you've changed everything. Your love will be eternal, and you
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  would be so deeply proud of your family for continuing
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  your vital legacy. Your family and survivors are finally being heard.
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  My sister Annie Farmer help pass a law to force
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  the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. Predators
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  such as Andrew Mount Batton Windsor are finally being held
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  accountable for what they did to you. And a video
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  that included you was projected onto windsor Castle's wall. You
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  did something no one else did, and every day your
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  sister survivors worked tirelessly around the clock to ensure this
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  nightmare doesn't happen again. Sometimes it's hard to believe that
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  any of this has actually happened. We both know that
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  talking about something, saying it out loud, can be the
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  action that makes an event actually feel real. For so
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  many years, you were the person who listened. You witnessed
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  my life, and that meant it was real and reality.
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  It was a rare gift for someone who spent so
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  many years ignored and unheard. In nineteen ninety six, I
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  contacted the New York City Police Department and FBI to
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  tell the same story that is being told today. In
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  the mid nineties, Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell lied to
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  my family, lured me to isolated locations, and sexually abused
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  and assaulted me. Then they threatened my life and well
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  being if I were ever to report what happened. I
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  just wanted to protect my little sisters and the other
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  teenagers out there being deceived and destroyed by Epstein and
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  Maxwell's dark web of trafficking and abuse. I wanted to
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  protect you, Virginia, even before I knew you. So I
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  did what everyone is told to do. I went to
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  the FBI, hoping for help from those meant to keep
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  us safe from harm. Instead, they hung up on me.
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  For a decade, I lived under threats of violence and
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  destruction under Maxwell. A decade later, in two thousand and six,
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  the FBI contacted me again. The officers came to our homes,
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  interviewed us, and instructed us to testify in the federal
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  trial in Florida. They promised the Epstein, Maxwell and their
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  accomplices would be held accountable. Then they abandoned us. We
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  felt duped again. I can't imagine telling that version of
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  myself all we would achieve in the next twenty years.
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  I think she would have been proud of us. I
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  think she would have been very grateful and relieved to
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  know I found a friend like you along this deeply
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  painful road. I wouldn't have made it this far without
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  your friendship and your faith. You're the reason I'm surviving cancer.
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  It's the strength that you gave me that kept me
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  moving forward when it felt so much easier to quit.
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  It can make you feel crazy having so many people
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  ignore you, or disbelieve you, or simply not care about
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  you or what happened to you at all. But I
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  had you Annie, and other survivors like Margique Chartouni, who
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  always understood the truth that courage keeps me going. Today,
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  I'm sure it won't surprise you to know that we
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  still have a long way to go. With your family
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  and friends by my side, anything is possible. Though more
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  files have been released, countless others have been unjustly kept
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  out of the public eye, including my full nineteen ninety
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  six FBI report. Those that have been made available are redacted,
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  inconsistently and in a factively putting survivors at risk while
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  prioritizing the protection of powerful predators across the ocean. Prince
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  Andrew has been stripped of his title and evicted from
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  his royal residence, and former British ambassador Peter Mandelsson has
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  been arrested, but in the United States, billionaires like Les
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  Wexner face no consequences. The FBI continues to ignore the
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  voices of survivors to shirk its most essential responsibility to
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  the American people, including our children. There are still days
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  when I wonder if anybody's listening. Your book is the
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  best seller. Millions of real people picked it up because
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  they wanted to listen to your story. You're finally being heard.
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  You'll always be remembered as a champion for protecting vulnerable
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  young teenagers like yourself. You and I often wondered what
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  would have happened to the countless people Epstein and Maxwell
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  victimized had the FBI taken us seriously all those years ago.
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  How many would have lived normal, happy lives and never
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  known the humiliation and terror of their abuse. The devastation
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  Epstein and Maxwell caused was not inevitable. It was a
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  decision made every day for decades. You promised your daughter
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  she would grow up in a better world than the
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  one you inherited through your relentless activism and powerful voice.
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  That promise has come true, one where criminals are held
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  to account and kept far away from the levers of power,
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  One where children are protected like our most valuable resource
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  because they are. We're still walking down the trail that
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  you blaze for us, Virginia, and I can't wait for
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  you to see how far we go. It never gets easier,
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  or maybe it just hasn't yet, But every time I've
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  called on my courage, you have delivered it right to
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  my doorstep. I want to thank you for always doing that.
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  Even still, I miss you. I love you, Signed Maria.
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  All the information that goes with this episode can be
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  found in the description box.