Jeffrey Epstein appeared in Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter’s office in 2002 during a furious effort to suppress the truth about his sick sexual practices — which the magazine did not publish.
The pedophile went straight to Carter after journalist Vicky Ward spoke to two of his victims, Annie and Maria Farmer, who had blown the whistle on his dirty practices.
Maria Farmer was a 25-year-old graduate student at the New York Academy of Art when Epstein hired her as an art scout.
She told Ward how in 1996, Epstein sexually assaulted her at the home of billionaire Victoria’s Secret owner Les Wexner in Ohio — and Ghislaine Maxwell held her hand.
Her sister Annie told Ward that Maxwell sexually assaulted her by groping her breasts when she was just 16 and trained her to massage Epstein’s feet.
Epstein’s meeting with Carter came just before Vanity Fair published a profile of him in March 2003 — without any reference to the Farmer revelations — under the headline: “The Talented Mr. Epstein.”
Jeffrey Epstein with former president Bill Clinton. Newly released emails say Clinton tried to stop Vanity Fair from publishing the truth about pedophiles, but The Post was told it was Epstein himself. Former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, whose office Epstein left after threatening a magazine reporter who spoke to two of his victims. WireImage Vanity Fair reporter Vicky Ward was threatened by Epstein when she reported on his abuse in late 2002 — but her revelations were not published in the magazine when the story came out in March 2003. Patrick McMullan/PatrickMcMullan
Epstein’s pressure campaign came into focus on Friday after the release of thousands of pages of previously redacted court documents showing that the pedophile’s most high-profile victim, Victoria Guiffre, had claimed that former president Bill Clinton tried to censor Vanity Fair.
Emails in the group show that she wrote, “When I was doing research on VF yesterday, it worried me what they wanted to write about me since B. Clinton came into VF and threatened them not to write a sex-trafficking article about her best friend. JE”
Ward told The Post that he believed Giuffre had made a mistake. Carter also said that Clinton did not show up at his office. “This is absolutely not the case,” a spokesperson for the former Vanity Fair chief told The Post.
Maria Farmer, who was 25 when she was attacked by Epstein and Maxwell, told Ward about her ordeal in 2002, but her account was never published. CBS This Morning’s Annie Farmer was just 16 when Ghislaine Maxwell groped her breasts and taught her how to massage Jeffrey Epstein’s feet. He told Ward his story but it was also censored.
“I never heard of Bill Clinton coming into office,” said Ward, who now writes Vicky Ward Investigates. “I think Jeffrey Epstein was mixed up when it got to Virginia.
“Jeffrey Epstein, while the piece was going through fact-checking, showed up in the office. A fact checker named Mary Flynn emailed me and said that Jeffrey Epstein was standing in Graydon’s office.”
The email read, “Bless you – guess who just showed up at Graydon’s office? Jeffrey Epstein.”
The move came after Epstein’s all-out attempt to prevent the truth from coming out in Vanity Fair.
Virginia Giuffre told Mail on Sunday reporter Sharon Churcher her concerns about “B. Clinton.” Ward told The Post that Clinton had “conflated” with Epstein.
“He and I have become very contentious,” Ward said. “I have put Annie and Maria Farmer’s allegations against him and Maxwell. They use nukes.”
“He said he’d get a witch to curse my unborn child if he didn’t like the story.”
When Ward heard Epstein was in the office, she was on maternity leave.
“I called my editor immediately and said, ‘What is Jeffrey Epstein doing there?'” he told The Post. “The idea that he’s standing in Graydon’s office is appalling.”
Carter, in 2019, told the New York Times that Epstein had been present at Vanity Fair’s offices, but not his own.
Virginia Giuffre with attorney David Boise. In a recent document release, he maintains that “…B. Clinton entered [Vanity Fair] and threaten them not to write sex traffic[k]article about his best friend JE” REUTERS
“When we were covering the story, I had asked him for a picture, and he showed up in the office one day and he was sitting in our lobby,” said Carter, who edited Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017. “I don’t know how he got there.”
A spokesperson told The Post Friday, “There is nothing new to comment on.”
Ward and Carter have been at odds over why Farmer’s revelation was removed from the story.
Carter told The New Yorker in 2022 that several executives, including Vanity Fair’s legal counsel, did not feel that Ward’s reporting would stand up in court and released Farmers’ account as a result. He also said that Ward’s report was not widely believed in the magazine.
Ward told The Post, “Graydon said I didn’t have enough resources. But I have them on record. So, what else does he need?
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein “went nuclear” when they heard that sexual assault victims Annie and Maria Farmer would be in Vicky Ward’s Vanity Fair story, she told The Post. ZUMA24.com
“Graydon said I was a terrible reporter and source. He employed me for another 10 years. So I can’t possibly be that bad.”
Vanity Fair also omitted reporting on Epstein in 2007, the year he was first federally investigated for preying on underage girls, writer John Connolly told The Post in 2020, before his death in 2022.
The Carter family found a cat’s severed head on the porch of their country home in Connecticut, Connolly claimed in 2020. “It doesn’t matter, it was left by Epstein or someone on his behalf,” he said.
That Monday, “I came into the office and Graydon was still upset,” recalled Connolly, who had been an NYPD detective. “He asked if we should still do the story. I said no…it’s not worth it. Epstein surrounds himself with people who can be intimidating if you’re not a tough guy.”
Carter, however, said that he and his wife believed the cat’s head was left by “disgruntled supporters of George W. Bush,” and said: “To suggest that it affects my editorial judgment is . . . wrong.”
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