Gallery viewers inspect the “Trump and Epstein Through The Years” timeline at the Donald J. Trump and Jeffery Epstein Memorial Reading Room on Thursday, Oct. 8th, 2026. The reading room is located at 618 Neil Ave. will be available to visit Oct. 8th to Oct. 11th, 2026. Credit: Michael Goulet | Campus Photo Editor.
Rows of physical copies of the Epstein files fill bookshelves in a single room. All told, the files take up 3.5 million pages spread across 3,457 book volumes, together weighing 17,000 pounds.
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room display in Victorian Village also drew survivors of Epstein and of former university physician Richard Strauss Thursday, where they renewed their demand that Ohio State remove Les Wexner’s name from campus buildings.?
“I’m calling on [Ohio State] to finally distance themselves from [Wexner] once and for all,” Epstein survivor Annie Farmer said. “No more equivocation, no more delays. The time for silence is over. The time for acceptance is over. Survivors deserve better. This community deserves better. Ohio State deserves to be an institution free from the shadow of those who enabled abuse.”
The display is featured at The Sanctuary on Neil — located at 618 Neil Ave. — from Friday to Sunday. Organized by the Institute for Primary Facts, the display is a free and public reading room that features bookshelves of the Epstein files printed out, put into large, physical book volumes.
The display featured a room called the Les Wexner Wing, which included two seats and a desk with a phone with a sign prompting people to call the university president’s office to demand the removal of Wexner’s name from all university buildings.
The room also featured a sign that explained Wexner’s alleged history with Epstein.
“For years, Epstein managed Wexner’s personal fortune and held power of attorney over his affairs. Wexner’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the Epstein files,” the sign read.
The billionaire founder of L Brands and the university’s largest donor Wexner’s name appears on the university’s medical buildings, including branches around Ohio, the Wexner Center of the Arts — which is named after Wexner’s father, Harry L. Wexner — and the Wexner Football Complex within the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
The university has received over 500 requests to remove Wexner’s names from these buildings. University President Ravi Bellamkonda said that the university could decide if Wexner’s name will remain on these buildings by the end of the year.
Farmer said that her sister, Maria Farmer, was assaulted at a property owned by Wexner in New Albany and that the FBI did nothing to investigate her sister’s 1996 police report.
“It’s always been difficult for me to believe that Les Wexner was not aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” Farmer said. “He was not only a personal friend; he was a financial client. Their ties run deep, and their entanglement was profound and deliberate.”
Strauss survivor Mike DiSabato said that Wexner’s name being on the Woody Hayes Athletic Center is unacceptable.“This man’s name, Mr. Wexner, is associated not just with the Ohio State University, but with perhaps the greatest and most treasured name in this university’s history, Woody Hayes,” DiSabato said.
Strauss was a physician for the university from 1978-98, and he abused at least 177 students, mostly male athletes. He died by suicide in 2005, per prior Lantern reporting.
“I would put Woody Hayes in the top two or three people that I have ever met in my life, and to have Wexner’s name, who hides behind his money, is really showing me what Ohio State really is,” Al Washington, former Ohio State linebacker and Strauss survivor said.
Other features of the exhibit include a large timeline of President Donald Trump and Epstein’s alleged relationship, dating back to 1987, various art from Maria Farmer, a reflection room where visitors are welcomed to write anything they may be feeling from the exhibit and a quiet, candle room that served as a tribute for the victims and survivors of Epstein.
