JEFFREY Epstein's first whistleblower has revealed she has a second brain tumor after surviving a previous one that "wrapped her head like an octopus".
Artist Maria Farmer, 52, who was Epstein’s receptionist in the nineties and the first to contact the FBI about how he sexually abused her has already suffered from a brain tumor, which was operated on in 2019 after lying undetected for 20 years - and has since battled lymphoma.
Now doctors have found a second brain tumor, which was only discovered when Farmer was grieving for her close friend Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein's old mentor.
The pair had developed a close friendship before his death last month and he was even due to move in with her.
When she realized he hadn't called for a number of days she became upset and thought she was having a stroke.
"He called me every day, at least once a day, he was lonely, and I'm lonely, and we kept each other going," Maria told The U.S. Sun.
"All of a sudden, I realized because I was caught up in these new drawings, five days had gone by and I hadn't talked to him. I just knew instantly he was gone,' says Farmer.
"I was talking to my friend and I started sobbing and she said: 'What's wrong?'
"Then she couldn't understand what I was saying, my faculties had gone.
"So I was like: 'Oh my God, I think I'm having a stroke.' I didn't know what was going on.
"I went to the hospital and they thought I was having a stroke because I had all the signs of it. But then they did the scans and it's...
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