Can Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Succeed in Painting Her as the Victim?

On Friday, the prosecution in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial called to the stand a fourth, and final, accuser. Annie Farmer described, among other disquieting incidents, a supremely creepy 1996 weekend she spent visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico. After being lured there under the guise of some sort of vague student enrichment workshop (to be led, apparently, by Epstein), the then 16 year-old Farmer unexpectedly found that she was the ranch’s lone guest. Isolated in the middle of the desert, Farmer says she was subjected to disturbing, unwanted attention...