One document filed by the Palm Beach Police Department recounts an alleged encounter between Epstein and the artist Suzannah B. Troy. According to that document, in 2006, Troy visited Epstein’s New York residence; the meeting was allegedly arranged by Ghislaine Maxwell, his associate who is currently serving 20 years after being convicted of child sex trafficking and other charges. Troy, who would have been in her 40s at the time, tried to sell Epstein some of her paintings, but he “did not appear interested.” Still, they continued speaking anyway, the report says. “She provided massages for Epstein,” the document claims, “and sometime during their relationship, she felt she was being used by Epstein and terminated the relationship.” (This act and others were done by “consenting adults,” the officer wrote, echoing Troy’s words at the time.)
In an email, Booth told ARTnews that she encountered Epstein via Maxwell in 1996, not 2006, the year specified in the police report. She said that she massaged Epstein, but that he did not rape her, and that the police report was “clearly not accurate information.” “Jeffrey wanted to buy one of my artwork that was in 1996 as well,” Booth wrote. “I never saw underage, children, male or female, and Maxwell and Epstein were never in the same room ever with me.” Booth moreover claimed that Epstein “stole” one of her works and that she had previously contacted a lawyer about this.
The Palm Beach Police Department notes that Troy painted a work called Techno-Penis-Head based on the encounter. A painting with the same title—which appears on Troy’s website, where it is dated to both 1997 and 1999, nearly a decade prior to her alleged relationship with Epstein—features multiple phalluses, along with written phrases such as “Men think with their dicks, if they can get enough blow-jobs, penetrate as many orifices as they think they can.
