This petition calls for Eileen Guggenheim to be removed as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New York Academy of Art. Epstein was on the Board of Trustees for seven years.
Maria Farmer had sold a painting to a German buyer for $12,000. Guggenheim told her she had to sell it to Epstein for $6,000, saying “‘You will be selling to them. They are great benefactors of the academy and you are going to make them happy. Do you understand?'” Epstein had told Maria that “if I sold him one of my paintings for half price he would help me with my career.” Farmer ultimately relented. and agreed to the reduced fee of $6,000 and “embarrassingly” informed the German collector that she was mistaken and the painting had already sold.
Guggenheim then took Maria to Epstein's ranch with some other students, where Epstein and Maxwell handed out prosthetic breasts and told the students to put them on. Epstein offered to provide Farmer studio space to work on a series of paintings for the set of the film As Good As It Gets. He arranged for her to travel to the Ohio mansion of his associate, Leslie Wexner, and his wife Abigail. While there, Epstein and Maxwell sexually assaulted her. The next morning she called Eileen Guggenheim and told her what happened. “I was sobbing and said Epstein and Maxwell are sick people and I think I could have been raped,” Farmer said. In response, Guggenheim allegedly “blamed me and mocked me.”
Guggenheim had Maria do a painting of her daughter and paid her only $3,000, when Maria's paintings were getting about $20000 each. She used Maria is an unpaid babysitter and a housecleaner, and got Maria to clean her sister's apartments on the Upper East Side and on Central Park South.
This Artnet article and this one show some of the artwork collected by Epstein--images of some very young, near naked children.
I thought this petition was great, until Kirby Sommers added claims about NBC exect Steve Burke to it, which are unsubstiated, based on a hoax.
She changed the text after many, many people had already signed it, and they don't even know what they are supporting now.
Kirby Sommers (not her real name, btw.) and fishy ex-cop Mark Dougan tried to convince everybody that they had evidence of Burke raping a child.
Then it turned out the footage didn't show a man raping a child, but two adult actors in a Spanish porn clip (the woman is clearly of age, and has a couple of tattoos).
As of today, Kirby insists that this is footage from an Epstein blackmail video, and labels everyone who disagrees 'a troll' and a 'bad actor'. This is nuts. Especially since the pman and the woman in the video are of age, and are speaking Spanish, and because the video has been on the clearnet for ten years or so.
She even outed someone as a survivor, who told her in confidence that he is an abuse victim.
"malicious agents of disinformation couldn't have damaged the credibility of Epstein-concerned citizen journalists and survivors of Epstein more if they tried. Hopefully people wake up to this quickly so no more harm is done."
It’s worth noting that the video she ran with claiming to be Steve Burke via alleged Epstein files was screen captured from online porn. Instead of retracting, Kirby doubled down, blocking all who questioned her false narrative"
She also doxxed the real life name of a Twitter user who has criticized her for passing the porn video with adult actors as a child rape video from Epstein's blackmail archive -
"Well, that didn't take long. @Kirbysommers "promised" to not share my ID. Then, she did it anyway. Here's the proof. Why anyone takes this bald-faced liar seriously is beyond me."
I read yesterday evening that Farmer has reached out to Kirby Sommers, and asked her to remove the Steve Burke paragraph from the petition. Not sure whether Sommers will comply, though.
Maria Farmer and Virginia Roberts-Giuffre need to severe ties to Kirby Sommers in order to stay credible. Sommers has caused so much damage already.
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Piscina ago
This petition calls for Eileen Guggenheim to be removed as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New York Academy of Art. Epstein was on the Board of Trustees for seven years.
Maria Farmer had sold a painting to a German buyer for $12,000. Guggenheim told her she had to sell it to Epstein for $6,000, saying “‘You will be selling to them. They are great benefactors of the academy and you are going to make them happy. Do you understand?'” Epstein had told Maria that “if I sold him one of my paintings for half price he would help me with my career.” Farmer ultimately relented. and agreed to the reduced fee of $6,000 and “embarrassingly” informed the German collector that she was mistaken and the painting had already sold.
Guggenheim then took Maria to Epstein's ranch with some other students, where Epstein and Maxwell handed out prosthetic breasts and told the students to put them on. Epstein offered to provide Farmer studio space to work on a series of paintings for the set of the film As Good As It Gets. He arranged for her to travel to the Ohio mansion of his associate, Leslie Wexner, and his wife Abigail. While there, Epstein and Maxwell sexually assaulted her. The next morning she called Eileen Guggenheim and told her what happened. “I was sobbing and said Epstein and Maxwell are sick people and I think I could have been raped,” Farmer said. In response, Guggenheim allegedly “blamed me and mocked me.”
Guggenheim had Maria do a painting of her daughter and paid her only $3,000, when Maria's paintings were getting about $20000 each. She used Maria is an unpaid babysitter and a housecleaner, and got Maria to clean her sister's apartments on the Upper East Side and on Central Park South.
This Artnet article and this one show some of the artwork collected by Epstein--images of some very young, near naked children.
think- ago
I thought this petition was great, until Kirby Sommers added claims about NBC exect Steve Burke to it, which are unsubstiated, based on a hoax.
She changed the text after many, many people had already signed it, and they don't even know what they are supporting now.
Kirby Sommers (not her real name, btw.) and fishy ex-cop Mark Dougan tried to convince everybody that they had evidence of Burke raping a child.
Then it turned out the footage didn't show a man raping a child, but two adult actors in a Spanish porn clip (the woman is clearly of age, and has a couple of tattoos).
As of today, Kirby insists that this is footage from an Epstein blackmail video, and labels everyone who disagrees 'a troll' and a 'bad actor'. This is nuts. Especially since the pman and the woman in the video are of age, and are speaking Spanish, and because the video has been on the clearnet for ten years or so.
She even outed someone as a survivor, who told her in confidence that he is an abuse victim.
another Twitter user -
She also doxxed the real life name of a Twitter user who has criticized her for passing the porn video with adult actors as a child rape video from Epstein's blackmail archive -
TL;DR - please do not sign this petition as long as the false claims about the porn video are on it.
Please stay away from Kirby Sommers, she has done great harm to survivors and the citizen investigator community.
If you would like to follow the dicussion, these two accounts have posted a lot of info re the Sommers / Dougan hoax:
@susokukan and @littlebirdy22
@MercurysBall2 @gamepwn @darkknight111
Piscina ago
Thank you. I didn't know that.
think- ago
Np.
I read yesterday evening that Farmer has reached out to Kirby Sommers, and asked her to remove the Steve Burke paragraph from the petition. Not sure whether Sommers will comply, though.
Maria Farmer and Virginia Roberts-Giuffre need to severe ties to Kirby Sommers in order to stay credible. Sommers has caused so much damage already.