Jeffrey Epstein (center) appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla., in July 2008. Read more Uma Sanghvi / AP

by Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister , Associated Press Published Dec. 3, 2025, 5:17 p.m. ET

NEW YORK — One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell‘s most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department’s request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”

Annie Farmer weighed in through her lawyer, Sigrid S. McCawley, after the judges asked for input from victims before ruling on whether the records should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante, who sexually abused young women and gi

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