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Jeffrey Epstein accuser urged FBI to investigate Trump decades ago – report

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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump as they pose at Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997. Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images

An artist who first accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual assault almost three decades ago has told the New York Times that she had urged law enforcement officials back then to investigate powerful people in their orbit – including Donald Trump.

The artist, Maria Farmer, was among the first women to report Epstein and his partner Maxwell of sexual crimes back in 1996 when, according to a new interview with the Times, she also identified Trump among others close to Epstein as worthy of attention.

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