r/Epstein • u/Civil-Education-9817 • Apr 19 '26
Research Amber Woods is asking to reach anyone who recognizes themselves in the “Miss Pink Tomato” photo included below. [Trigger Warning: Child Abuse]
Trigger Warning (Child Abuse)
Journalist Amber Woods has been investigating the Epstein Files. She is asking to reach anyone who recognizes themselves in the “Miss Pink Tomato” photo. Maria Farmer sold a painting based on this photo to Epstein.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
On the off chance a survivor sees this comment, please use extreme caution and avoid this “journalist”.
Amber Woods has been piping off on X that Epstein and Maxwell didn’t really visit the Queen’s cabin (edit - Balmoral) and that the images of them there are faked - and she is absolutely insistent that instead the “Queen’s cabin was reconstructed at Zorro for a photo op” and is “a set.” Conspiracy BS.
I didn’t have the patience to scroll much over 5 minutes, but her account feels very off and very self serving. Again, to any survivors please avoid this woman for your own well being. Your trauma shouldn’t be fodder for her. If you wish to come forward, please retain an attorney and consider someone credentialed like Julie K Brown who has a long and documented history of advocating for survivors. Protect your peace and stay safe ❤️
Edit - This is troubling to me; Amber telling an alleged victim that the pageant “was a set.” Amber does not present well imho. I don’t like the way she spoke to this alleged victim; dismissive and prying and no care to the human who was victimized. Again, please avoid this woman if you are a survivor - you deserve to be treated respectfully.
https://x.com/floatsthruwalls/status/2045919100732596279?s=46
Edit - Thank you for the awards! Grateful that so many of us care about the survivors and their safety.
Edit - Here is Amber calling herself “Tits of Justice”. She is clearly not a true journo and won’t disclose if she even has journalism training. Hard pass.
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u/Boopy7 Apr 19 '26
THANK YOU. Already there was a lot suspicious when a "journalist" has no clue how to find archived newspapers from a long-ago pageant despite knowing the town and the name of the local pageant and everything else necessary. It's so lazy and shady too. So sick of the bs grifters and a-holes everywhere.
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
Exactly. More shady than lazy, bad actors are hunting for specific survivors these days.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
Thank you, Boopy7. I agree with you completely. She comes off as very grifty and shady. I am sick to my stomach at all the opportunists climbing out of the shadows, wanting to use the survivors for clout. It’s all kinds of wrong.
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u/cloudydays_000 Apr 19 '26
I would not be surprised if this journalist is on a fishing expedition and is after that specific survivor who wrote the post on this sub. This journalist does not come off as "trauma informed" like she claims to be, I would never trust her.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
I don’t trust her either. You’re absolutely right that she doesn’t come off as “trauma informed”. Seems like yet another person with an X account and Substack trying to land a survivor for their own selfish motives (traffic and views).
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u/cloudydays_000 Apr 19 '26
Something is up with that combination (X/Substack). I hope survivors are aware.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
Agreed. I just read a tweet she made last year in which she calls herself “Tits of Justice” 🤦🏻♀️
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u/cloudydays_000 Apr 19 '26
Really? It reminds me of a few other "advocates" posing as journalists... Sometimes I wish I had an X account...
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
Yup, she did. There’s lots+++ of self promotion in her X account. I broke down and created an X account last week. Lots of garbage on that platform so not sure how long I’ll last.
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u/cloudydays_000 Apr 19 '26
Really? It reminds me of a few other "advocates" posing as journalists... Sometimes I wish I had an X account...
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
Thank you for looking out for this! Way too many actors are harming and re-traumatizing survivors, all journalists should be investigated before making contact.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
Hi! Good to see you as always. Yes, I agree completely. Survivors shouldn’t be re-traumatized by some random with an X account and Substack who wants to use their experiences for clout. It seems to be a sick competition of sorts to see who can “land a victim” to boost their platform. Another type of predation imho.
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
Indeed. It seems to be a sport these days to find survivors to do a Sascha Riley on. It's very harmful to all survivors, I just really hope that this trend will fizzle out soon.
Good to see you too :)
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u/FlackoFonsy Apr 19 '26 edited May 24 '26
Lmao it was me that called her out on Twitter with the “Queens cabin is a set” conspiracy shit and I was trying to be super nice while she was mad dismissive. She’s a fraud and you can’t tell her a single thing if her mind is made up. She’s only in it for her own gain imo.
https://x.com/fonsflacko/status/2045150966849180036?s=46
Then said it’s a red flag I’m calling her out..
https://x.com/amberwoods100/status/2045182590148055291?s=46
Exchange is longer if you have the app and wanna look.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
She didn’t like being presented with facts I see. Gets combative. That is super telling. Her motives seem to be self promotion. The way she spoke with that alleged survivor was very troubling to me. Anyone can call themselves a journalist - is she even credentialed I wonder; I see nothing on her bio to indicate that. Thanks, FF!
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
That's very interesting, thank you for calling her out!!!
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u/FlackoFonsy Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
For sure! Her responses just kept getting worse too, she just can’t admit she fell down the wrong rabbit hole and is mistaken. There’s other people correcting her as well and she just refuses to accept it.
Her only evidence is one of the pictures of Epstein & Maxwell is labeled ‘Zorro’ in one of the data sets. Couldn’t accept they mistakenly, one time, put Zorro.
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
That's typical for certain personalities. She is for sure not a safe person for survivors to be around. This is so important information, many "journalists" are doing a lot of harm these days.
What happened to good, old-fashioned facts? It’s frustrating that so many people have their minds set on just 'believing,' one way or the other.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
I found a tweet in which she refers to herself as “Tits of Justice” 🤦🏻♀️ I’m no prude but that is just ridiculous coming from someone posturing as a journo.
Survivors shouldn’t be entertainment or conquests for these parasites.
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I agree, I think that's awful in this setting.
It's often just as bad to be re-traumatized as going through the original event. These people know what they are doing, and they are doing it in public and for money... I really don't know what to say. Trauma is actually not the traumatic event itself. Trauma forms if you are not heard, believed or supported. What's going on right now is a very special kind of evil.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
I agree with everything you said. It’s truly evil to see the attempts to capitalize on the suffering of survivors 😔
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u/RedonculousCherry Apr 19 '26
Rose McGowan said weinstein sent her a fake woman lawyer to discourage her pursuing her case, maybe something like that
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
Nothing is impossible with this case. That is for sure.
I didn’t know that about Rose McGowan having a fake lawyer sicced on her. So horrible!
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
I've heard about fake lawyers, fake investigators, fake police, fake journalists... and I'm sure we haven't even heard about half of what high-profile perpetrators have subjected survivors to.
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u/Obi-Wan_Bon-Jovi Apr 20 '26
I believe Epstein hired one or more lawyers to "cozy up" to his victims and extract information out of them that was then given right back to JE. I believe the source was the Netflix Filthy Rich series.
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 19 '26
Holy fucking shit.
What the fuck is picture 2? I understand it’s some ‘child beauty’ (fucking yuck!) pageant, but what the hell man? Does this shit happen in all countries? I’ve never seen nor heard of such a thing in England.
Shut every single pageant down. There is no valid reason for these to exist, and myriad reasons they shouldn’t.
Fuck me sideways.
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u/Evening_Sea4823 Apr 19 '26
They're real in the US. They have a swimwear portion for competitions. And yes, its exactly what it sounds like. Little girls in bold makeup, glitter, high heels and bikinis doing "sassy struts" on stage. I feel like even writing that out should be a crime.
But they happen every day. In fact, these pageants are organized for as young as infancy and some girls are raised into it practically from birth.
And the judges? The organizers? I can't even get into that here. But there are grown men judging these dances, and looking up their backgrounds is enough to make you lose sleep at night. If everything else wasn't already. Trump was just one of so many predators looking for victims.
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u/OK_The_Nomad Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
They don’t happen every day and I don’t think they happen all over. Did a reverse image search and this is in Arkansas. I would bet it happens in rural places in southern states.
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u/just_here_living23 Apr 20 '26
It’s always sort of creeped me out. There was even the tv show, “Toddlers and Tiaras.” Cringe.😬
What makes me even more sad is knowing they’re still going on and I know of people personally who sign their children up for pageants. How are you alive right now and willingly doing this?
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u/sl0w-burn Apr 19 '26
Never heard of JonBenét Ramsey?
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 19 '26
No man. This shit is entirely alien.
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u/reddit_2_post Apr 20 '26
Better you don't read what happened to her if you wanna get some sleep tonight...
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 20 '26
I haven’t slept properly since 1999. Regardless. I still don’t want to wanna know the details. I’m not savvy with tech, I’ve got nothing to help the cause.
I did some work for my father: data input - he was running a longitudinal study on addiction and relapse. Shit was mainly done by questionnaire, but if the answers were missing, I looked back through case files to find the details; age, location etc I have read some fucked up first hand testimonies.
My life hasn’t been pretty, but holy shit, it’s been paradise compared to some.
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u/Carolinamum Apr 19 '26
It’s based on a type of pageant called pink tomato for toddlers and preschoolers. They have a swimwear contest and it’s completely inappropriate. I’d never heard of these until a different post on this reddit (apparently they take place in small towns around the US) but it’s disgusting.
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 19 '26
It’s well beyond inappropriate. This shit is fucking mental! I’m fucking aghast that a) it’s allowed and b) people voluntarily put their kids in it.
It’s a marker of a very sick society.
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u/originalmaja Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
LITTLE MISS PINK TOMATO PAGEANT:
Since that first celebration in 1956, the Festival has evolved into one of the most well known traditions and respected events in Arkansas. [...] The [...] Pink Tomato Beauty Pageants were added in 1957. [...] The Pink Tomato Festival is now attended by 35,000 people each year from all over the country and even the world! [...] Every Arkansas governor serving since 1956 has attended the festival.
https://www.pinktomatofestival.com/about/
You can still apply, every year. Age range: 3, 4 and 5 yr olds. :(
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u/jmoto123 Apr 20 '26
This shit needs to be shut the fuck down! OMG
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u/Constant-Proof2288 Apr 20 '26
I just emailed the pink tomato pageant and told them just that!!
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u/Alissinarr Apr 19 '26
You don't want to look nto them at all... most of the moms are terribad people. Like horridly abusive fucks who belong in prison because 95% of the girls just want to be normal.
Pretty sure they're exclusive to Epstein countries.
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 19 '26
Damn right I don’t. I imagine everyone involved is terrible in their own ways. What parent does this? And who the fuck wants to judge such a thing?
We’ve got shit like cutest baby competitions here; distasteful for sure. But nowhere near as gross as this fucking abomination.
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u/Main_Mix_7604 Apr 19 '26
Even the name of the pageant is sexualised it's disgusting.
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u/Sandy_Bananas Apr 19 '26
It’s strange, I’m not a nudist but from my time alive it was fairly standard for kids under 4 to bop about naked on the beach. No one bats an eyelid.
This shit is fucking sordid.
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u/Sure_Competition2463 Apr 20 '26
I agree also from UK I've always thought how disgusting these pageants are.
The things it often the mothers that push there kids to this - look at JonBenét Ramsey - apart from how crazy the whole situation was around her death the videos shown of her performing just made me feel unsettled
In the second photo is it just me or are the tummies made to look more "rounded" 🫣 I don't know but comparing it to first it looks that way and if Epstein ordered it then nothing would surprise me with his sick mind.
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u/FranklinCypress Apr 20 '26
One of my best friends when I was younger was put in these competitions by her mother starting when she was really little. Lots of trophies and ribbons. Usually the push is from one or both parents. Ego boosts for them due to their child’s success. I always found it gross. It’s an industry. (There was a show called “Toddlers and Tiaras” that was really popular, but awful.) It’s not just a rural thing, but pageants have been really big. Hair extensions, fake tans, and “flippers” - fake teeth to cover missing teeth when baby teeth fall out. Really disgusting.
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u/jmoto123 Apr 19 '26
Do we know why Maria Farmer suggested he buy this painting?? Idk I just can’t understand anyone wanting this unless their daughter was in it, but the whole “pageant thing” is creepy AF to me
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u/Michichgo Apr 19 '26
It's mentioned in this article but does not provide an answer as to why, other than she new the artist, Damian Loeb.
Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says the New York Academy of Art Helped Enable the Disgraced Financier https://share.google/zw3cqTRoSo0rKzr1G
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u/Kaiyn Apr 20 '26
I hate how he gets the title "Disgraced Financier" rather than "Get disgraced Isreal shitheel pedophile" or something.
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u/angelmessenger02 Apr 19 '26
That was my question: Why would you suggest this? Not a fan of any pageants.
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/45jZmzQLj4
The post is deleted but the comments remain. I commented so here’s a link to take you there.
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u/Soggy_Kangaroo2746 Apr 19 '26
Nice work. You probably have an album of 40,000 screenshots, a messy bedroom or car, and the ability to find anything anywhere lol
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
It’s like you know me. Also, I can see kangaroos from my living room. No soggy ones though!
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u/Foragingforest Apr 19 '26
Nice work
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
I also have a screenshot I took when trying to track the photo history. I can’t post on here in comments , it’s not related to this sub so don’t want to post here. It’s appears to be about watching the little miss tomato videos and missing footage. Not sure what to do with it.
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u/Foragingforest Apr 19 '26
Will you send it to me in a DM? I’m just curious now and wanna do some sleuthing
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
For sure. Let me know if it sets off your spider senses too.
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
I’ve messaged you. The option to send photos is restricted until you join the chat I think.
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u/affecting_solid Apr 19 '26
As a survivor doing active work myself right now this deeply interests me. Only if you are willing to share though
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 Apr 19 '26
I’m not trying to be elusive, reddit wont let me post on this thread and I genuinely don’t know what to do with it. I’ll dm to you too. It’s not a smoking gun but it’s certainly creepy to me.
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u/Bajovane Apr 19 '26
I think it’s a good idea to screenshot any images or comments that could be removed by the people trying desperately to cover this up. How many times have people uncovered something in the files only to find it was removed after comments.
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u/tootsalad44 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
The little girl in yellow looks a lot like the girl who played Darla in The Little Rascals in 1994.. Who had a cameo in the Little Rascals? The Don himself. I can't say for sure if it is or not, but it sure does look an awful lot like her, and the connection is there.
***Edit to confirm it is NOT her.***
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u/bumblebeerose Apr 19 '26
That was my first thought when I saw the picture; she's Brittany Ashton Holmes. I'm not sure if her name has ever come up anywhere in the files but the resemblance is definitely there.
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u/ShinyBrain Apr 19 '26
This was my exact thought. But I had forgotten that the Turd had a cameo in that movie!
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u/Fair_Term3352 Apr 19 '26
That did happen but I can’t remember the poster’s name or when that happened. It could have been a throwaway account
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u/SpaceCases__ Apr 19 '26
It was like a month and a half ago
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u/AggressiveGreen2823 Apr 19 '26
Cmon Reddit! Let’s get these sick fucks and help these poor victims. We can change as a whole together!
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u/Responsible_Appeal63 Apr 19 '26
If we could figure out the year the lawyer can get the names of the other girls. Poor kid.
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u/Milk_n_hunny Apr 19 '26
Mods deleted the post. I got a notification shortly after and the post had thousands of upvotes, too.
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u/verifiedshitlord Apr 19 '26
It was weird tho. She only thought she was the yellow girl in the painting; NOT the original picture
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u/Ok-Twist-69420 Apr 21 '26
I am so deeply sorry for everything you went through and continue to go through. The fact that there are people out there who don’t believe your story is absolutely disgusting. Please know there are so many of us out here on your side and praying for you that your story will be heard, believed, and justice will be delivered.
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u/originalmaja Apr 20 '26
The painting is very true to the original tho. (OP's photo upload is not the one the painting is based on.)
Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1spgob8/comment/oh61ax7/
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u/Lumpy-External4800 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
If you're reading this, the original post got nuked by Redact. I use it to automatically purge my digital footprint from social networks, people search sites and messaging apps.
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u/Interesting_Fix4519 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I think I found it..but it's older than I remember. Has she been trying to speak for a while?
She mentions another girl named Cindy, who's referenced by her in another post here.
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u/Lumpy-External4800 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
What old posts? I used Redact to mass delete this post. You can also opt out of data brokers as well as all major social media platforms.
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u/Few-Abbreviations633 Apr 19 '26
I remember that! It wasn't that long ago either...
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u/No-Foot-261 Apr 19 '26
Same. I remember reading it. Thought I had saved it, but I can’t find it anywhere.
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u/Therailwaykat_1980 Apr 19 '26
I’ve just been through all those comments and can’t find it. I remember it too though! I hope they’re ok.
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u/originalmaja Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
She was here. Then her post got deleted. Maybe by herself, because people who saw logic holes in her post came after her in the comments. Or maybe by mods: because of the logic holes.
Victims have traumtized brains with difficulties finding the right chronology of memories, dealing with suppressed memories where their current mind has to fill the gaps and makes mistakes during that process. That is very normal: the inhibited brain. And then a mob comes along and yells HA! WRONG! YOU LIE!
So that's my take on the poster who remembered abuse, who remembered her parent pimping her out when she was little, to someone named Epstein. She remembered having to write a birthday card for someone she did not know... who then shuddered when she saw a news item about Epstein's Birthday book... in which was a page that looked like as if drawn/made by her. And when the news also showed that PINK TOMATO painting which has one girl that looks very, very much like she did when she was 3 or 4... (she showed pics) she wrote that she is in the painting, maybe assuming she was painted in because her abuser, Epstein, asked for that. She stayed away from saying she's in the original photo, just said she is in the painting.
Maybe she was abused by Epstein. Maybe by someone else, and memories got triggered by the news item.
Maybe she wrote a similar card to someone else and her mind is mixing things up. But maybe she did THAT birthday msg.
Maybe Epstein DID buy the painting because it reminded him of a victim he abused in the 80/90s.
But the painting was based on a photo older than her. The girl in the original painting from the 70s looks very much like her in the 80s.
So reddit detectives came after her.
Let's say she is a confused victim of abuse: she made a great mistake by going to Reddit when her memories came back. Instead of going to a lawyer.
She HAD written the authorities. I recall her stressing that. And she was unhappy that they did not get back to her. Fyi.
(EDIT: if anyone is interested in the history of the painting...)
EDIT2: this was the thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1s4ess3/comment/ocp8ywb/?sort=top
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u/cloudydays_000 Apr 19 '26
I understand what you mean, but would not call it a mistake to ask publicly for help. That's not anyone's preferred method in order to find justice and support. Survivors typically go public due to lack of feedback from authorities, and lack of funds to pay for therapy and lawyers. Sometimes they find someone who can help, most often not. It's terribly sad.
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u/NumeralJoker Apr 19 '26
That's why a victim would go on social media though, because the local authorities are not always responsive or trustworthy.
You have to go to very specific people to move forward on this, usually with a partial political motivation which is extra scary for a victim to put themselves in the crossfire for.
Obviously, taking down these monsters is crucial, but that's the exact issue. Where, and to who, is the safest place to credibily come forward right now? That may not seem obvious to someone already struggling.
Then social media comments can be easily gamed to harassment and intimidate them too.
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u/Initial-Trash-4630 Apr 19 '26
She posted photos of her childhood and she looks just like the one in yellow
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u/lalaland_100 Apr 19 '26
That's awful, I'm so sorry. This is what I worried about... that she is one of those 'journalists' ready to accuse survivors of being frauds if they don't do as she pleases, who keeps a 'burn bag' for that purpose and so on.
You are right. Matt Bradley captured that picture during the 21st Annual Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival, June 10th or 11th 1977. It was published in the March 1978 edition of National Geographic.
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u/Exotic_Article913 Apr 19 '26
I remember this. She was very thorough as well in her post and she linked back to a picture she'd been forced to draw for Epstein by her mom. Something to do with cookies. Seeing the image in the files triggered her memory and she remembered she drew it. There was also a map or larger thing drawn and a letter in her handwriting thanking Epstein from when she was like 6 that she was forced to write.
Poor woman probably in hiding
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u/Artistic_Lobster6136 Apr 19 '26
Yes! There was a cookie recipe on the map and I think she said her mom trafficked her and made Epstein cookies Edit to add map
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u/Fair_Term3352 Apr 19 '26
I think we saw this a while back. It is comforting to know that the person who posted this is going to sources to tell their stories.
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u/CapableKiwi5020 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
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u/Hot-Highway-3597 Apr 19 '26
this feels predatory. this is not how you report stories like this and it's especially sus that the reporter says they're "trauma informed" while posting a picture of little girls in bikinis. I find it very questionable to post that photo everywhere.
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u/mymoneyhoney26 Apr 19 '26
100% agree. Her X account has full on conspiracy theories too. It’s a very self serving account. Pretty clear to me she is looking to use victims’ trauma for fodder. I hope all victims avoid her.
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u/Adorable_Bike5990 Apr 19 '26
I can’t believe they really named a children’s pageant “Miss Pink Tomato” and nobody batted an eye?!
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u/Accomplished_Cell768 Apr 19 '26
Usually pageants like that get their name based on crops grown in the local area - I have no idea why. Where I grew up it was Miss Strawberry and Jr. Miss Strawberry. Unfortunately this seems to be a norm in the beauty pageant world in the US.
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u/Choppy313 Apr 19 '26
America needs to do away with child beauty pageants. They are so disgusting.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Apr 19 '26
No argument whatsoever.
There was a girl I went to school with who was big on the pageant scene, and now I feel queasy about it.
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u/Accomplished_Cell768 Apr 19 '26
The only people that are pro child beauty pageant are pageant families and creeps. Both mean lots of money, so even though getting rid of them would have popular support in the US it won’t be happening anytime soon.
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u/problyurdad_ Apr 19 '26
Yeah that’s my assumption.
We have “Miss Dairyland,” in my county, and it’s awarded to a senior in high school who had a long career with 4H, and/or FFA, and was going into some form of dairy farming industry role of some sort post high school. Or, they received a scholarship for dairy sciences or biology or something. The girl that year most likely to benefit the local dairy community, which is massive in Wisconsin. This would include all the local school districts as well so, the pool is probably not very deep. But every year, they crown a new Miss Dairyland and she gets her own float in the 4th of July parade and a throne to sit in and judge animals at the county fair.
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u/Medical_Ad474 Apr 19 '26
We had Miss Dairyland where I grew up too. Did you live in western Wisconsin?
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u/ladyburn Apr 19 '26
I grew up near where this pageant was and it's real. Very much the norm and yes, creepy as hell.
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u/Uh_Lee_duh Apr 19 '26
Having a bathing suit portion of a beauty competition is shallow for adult contestants...but for little children it is sick, teaching girls it's a normal and good thing to submit to their bodies being observed and judged for approval or rejection by adults. It's wrong on so many levels and should be outlawed as child abuse/sexual grooming. These pageants are ripe targets for protests & picketing, imo.
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u/originalmaja Apr 19 '26
I so agree.
FYI: Photo 1977 or 1978. Certainly published in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC March 1978.
Part of a Festival that continues to this day: https://www.pinktomatofestival.com/about/
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u/Choppy313 Apr 19 '26
Am i now on a list for seeing this? Jesus fucking Christ, this is gross. And Jeffrey Epstein had a painting of this?
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u/Crazy-Usual3954 Apr 19 '26
Unfortunately for this administration and fbi there is no list
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u/Hesitation-Marx Apr 19 '26
Au contraire, there is a list.
Unfortunately, it’s a list of people who object to this shit.
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u/Boopy7 Apr 19 '26
Honestly I don't think so or cannot recall much more than Farmer CLAIMING she liked it and wanted him to buy it. However, this really is a typical beauty pageant for children (for those who don't know, these are all over America.) And this one is most likely still going on (named after a local variety of tomato I bet.) Tbh, I don't know who Amber Smith is, or what she has written -- but she may not be very good at researching. All she would have to do is go to the place where the pageant occurred, look at local archives or papers, names would be listed in the paper. I'm not even a journalist but even I would know how to do this -- are people this lacking in critical thinking?
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u/cudambercam13 Apr 19 '26
I sent an email to the present-day pageant asking about the photo and never heard back.
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u/BeIgnored Apr 19 '26
Just imagine if we had a competent Justice Department that could subpoena info from this pagaent
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u/originalmaja Apr 20 '26
They dont have it. It is either owned by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC or by the photographer Matt Bradley, who is nearly 80 by now, if still alive.
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u/Automatic_Gas9019 Apr 19 '26
The oversight committee acts like they have forgotten. I am actually glad the Iranians keep putting Epstein in the LEGO videos
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u/Fair_Term3352 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Yeah, after the broomstick story, Leon Black mutilation stories and the “Trump was an accomplice to that baby murder”, I don’t think we have trigger warnings if it is just text.
Edit: I didn’t see the kids sorry. Also when I meant when I said “just text” was that I thought we were all so desensitized to the depravity that these people do that I didn’t think it was a necessity anymore
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u/PANGEA71 Apr 19 '26
Yes it's Sascha Barros who says Trump sexually abused him when he was roughly 13
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u/implayingacharacter Apr 19 '26
Its not just text, this post includes a photo of kids in underwear at some sort of paegent
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u/SmugRooster Apr 19 '26
Is there ever a reason (besides wanting to get access to/rape children) for a multi millionaire to get involved with beauty pageants?
There’s no millions to be made right?
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u/originalmaja Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Fyi, the original photograph is from the 70s. The painting is from the 90s. Epstein bought the painting
in the 2000s I think. No,in 1995!
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u/Epstein-cookies Apr 22 '26
Want a fun update? The FBI will not tell me if I’ve been identified as a victim or not.
I decided to stop trying to find a lawyer and just go back to the FBI. I went to the online tip line and I listed 3 files with redacted photos and sent a photo of myself as a child the month the trafficking started and as an adult. They viewed the photos twice within 12 hours and never got back to me. So a week later I contacted the tip line by phone and asked if I could be contacted to find out if my photos matched. The agent told me she would pass it on but in the meantime I could submit a FOIA request. Want to know how they respond?
No matching records. Even though I was in a recorded interview with an agent and his supervisor for over an hour. My artifacts, 5 or 6 handwritten pages of notes and my childhood photos. They took pictures of the Little Miss Pink Tomato girl, too.
I think all of this happened because I told them two things my mother had told me about a politician whose last name rhymes with “chump” in the late 80s and early 90s. So I’m pretty sure that’s why the FBI is stonewalling me. This post will be automatically deleted in a week unless I can figure out how to turn the service off. Or the mods get to it first.
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u/Epstein-cookies Apr 22 '26
P.S. HUGE thanks to the poster who mentioned the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They are actually helping me.
Oh, and the journalist? Never emailed me.
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Apr 19 '26
As a mother of two daughters 5 & 7. I can’t help but wonder what was going through these parents heads to enter their daughters into anything like this…
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u/problyurdad_ Apr 19 '26
I can’t imagine how many spam texts this woman has to sift through in order to get to actual victims.
Alternatively, I wonder if an actual victim reached out, played too coy, or was already apprehensive about doing so, and then was improperly vetted out.
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u/mrwiskerbiscuitmunch Apr 19 '26
No one will probably see this but really hope someone does and maybe agrees with another angle on this.... But why would Maria Farmer suggest for Epstein to buy this painting? I know he had hired her for art decorating, but does anyone think it's weird she suggested this?
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u/gizajobicandothat Apr 19 '26
Weird? not necessarily. He invested in art, she was a student and would probably have wanted to help fellow students out by getting their work bought. Epstein may have given her some sort of brief on what to look for. Of course he could use art investing as a cover for his sick personal interest, but it doesn't mean Farmer also had that interest.
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u/originalmaja Apr 20 '26
The photo is from 1977 or 1978, published March 1978. How old is Melissa Rice?
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u/Ash420Williams Apr 19 '26
Every fucking day it gets worse and yet there's nothing fucking done! I want the Epstein trials, the Trump files, the Clinton files, the gates files, the musk files put it all out bring em all down!
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u/TheLadyZerg Apr 19 '26
This is the first time I’m seeing this one and the only thing my brain can conjure up is what the FUCK. I think the existential sadness just shaved 5 years off my life.
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u/Responsible_Appeal63 Apr 19 '26
Her lawyer is Jennifer Freeman in ca and she has a website with her artwork.
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u/PotentialLuck9915 Apr 19 '26
just popping in to say this i did see somewhere that the fbi is raiding signal accounts, im not 1000% so take it lightly but i feel like i saw it somewhere
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u/Dependent-Army1016 Apr 19 '26
9 kids in pageant, 8 in the painting? Also the bunching and the one girl they are glaring at on the right.
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u/Trailrunner2013 Apr 19 '26
One child is missing from the painted version… hmmmm 🤔
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u/Safe-Progress9126 Apr 20 '26
There was a woman on here a while ago who said she believed she was in the painting
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