NoelCaslerComedy

These are three instances that illustrate perfectly why victims don’t come forward. Victims fear their voices will be erased by those with more power, more money, more influence.

In 2002, when I was reporting on Epstein for Vanity Fair, I spoke to two sisters, Annie and Maria Farmer, about Epstein’s abuse of Annie when she was just 16. They—and their mother—were on the record.

Graydon Carter had previously denied my sources were on the record. This week, his has amended his statement, admitting my three sources were indeed on the record. His new claim is that they didn’t meet the magazine’s “legal threshold.”

My story on Jeffrey Epstein ran in Vanity Fair in March of 2003, but it did not include the Farmers’ accusations of abuse. I wonder how many children might have been spared had the accusations about Epstein been published all those 16 years ago.