NEW YORK—After two weeks of witness testimony, the prosecution in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial rested its case in federal court in lower Manhattan on Dec. 10. Over the two weeks, four alleged victims of Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were called to testify, with Annie Farmer as the final one, also Dec. 10. Unlike the other alleged victims, Farmer used her actual, full name. The previous witnesses used either just a first name, or a pseudonym. Under direct examination by prosecutor Lara Pomerantz, Farmer testified that her older sister, Maria, worked for Epstein in 1995. The sister was 25 and Farmer was 16. Farmer first met Epstein at his New York residence, when she visited her sister there, traveling from her home in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 1995. Farmer was under the impression that Epstein would help her with her college applications. At one point he suggested an international trip …
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