Epstein's Closest Assistant, Sarah Kellen, Breaks Silence to Give Shocking Testimony - But Here's What the Media Aren't Telling You
Epstein's former assistant and lover has given testimony to U.S. lawmakers, spilling beans, naming names... but holding back secrets.
Sarah Kellen, one of the women long associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle, has appeared before congressional investigators and alleged that she was not a co-conspirator, but a victim.
Kellen, now 46, met Epstein in the early 1990s when she was 18.
She recounted to the Oversight panel that she was raised in a “religious cult” and was married at the age of 17. After divorcing her husband, she was reportedly shunned and excommunicated by the religious community. She claimed that a male associate then introduced her to Epstein under the auspices that he was a “scout for Victoria’s Secret.” She later got a job as Epstein’s assistant, while also engaging in a longterm sexual relationship with him.
During her association with the disgraced financier, Kellen helped organise his day-to-day life. She booked flights, scheduled appointments, placed grocery and product orders, liaised with house staff, and acted as a trusted go-between for his friends, business associates, and for his numerous other sexual partners.
One of her other typical duties was communicating with women and booking them in to provide Epstein with his daily sexualised massages.
These massages would usually be supplied by females in their early twenties. Some of them were escorts. Some of them were yacht girls. Some of them were seeking sugar daddies and someone to fund their educational endeavours. Some were manipulated by Epstein into believing they might secure modelling contracts through his connections with Victoria’s Secret and Jean-Luc Brunel. Some were prostitutes from local brothels (or ‘jack shacks’ as Epstein referred to them in his unpublished press statement) in Palm Beach and across the world (Epstein’s black book contains telephone numbers for multiple escorts and massage parlours in America, France, and other places he regularly visited).
And some were simply ordinary local women seeking to make a few hundred dollars by supplying ‘the creepy rich guy’ with a happy ending massage.
A woman would make cash from paying him a visit and satisfying his out-of-control sexual appetite and perversions. She would often then go off and tell a friend of the ‘easy money’ that could be made, bringing that friend with her upon her next visit. For this, Epstein would pay her a finder’s fee.
Thus, for many years, scores of women willingly came and went from Epstein’s numerous homes, each time heading into his bedroom or designated massage room and leaving with crisp hundred dollar bills.
Nadia Marcinkova, 36, is alleged to have taken part in sexual encounters with the girls and has been described as Epstein’s on-off girlfriend.
In a Palm County Beach police report, one of Epstein’s victims said he would direct her and Marcinkova to have sex with strap-on dildos and other sex toys. The girl was also allegedly made to watch while Epstein and Marcinkova had sex
Sarah Kellen was the person whom those women predominantly picked up the phone and called whenever they wanted to come over and make some extra money.
But it was one of those phone calls to Kellen that would inevitably lead to Epstein’s first arrest.
Like many of the other women who regularly made the transactional trip to Epstein’s plush pad in El Brillo Way, Virginia Giuffre, who had met Epstein after already having worked as a prostitute around West Palm Beach, had taken him up on the offer to find and introduce other women to him in exchange for a finder’s fee.
But, unlike the other women, Virginia chose not to bring adult friends to provide sexual services to Epstein, but instead targeted local school girls and late teens. She groomed them with free marijuana, made them feel at ease, told them of the multi-millionaire down the road who would pay them for a massage, and instructed them that they she would take them, providing they adhered to her one simple rule: If Epstein or any of his members of staff enquired about their ages, they had to lie and state that they were over 18.
Giuffre did this time and time again, as evidenced in the following interviews I conducted with her former boyfriends, and with the mother of Carolyn Andriano, one of the girls whom Virginia recruited:
Eventually, Giuffre recruited Haley Robson. And Robson, following Giuffre’s MO, continued recruiting underage girls long after Giuffre left Epstein’s orbit.
One day, Robson met her cousin’s girlfriend, 14-year-old Saige Gonzalez. She convinced her to accompany her to massage Epstein, reminding her that she had to lie that she was over 18.
She then, as police records fully document, made a phone call to Sarah Kellen, telling her that she had ‘found a new girl for Jeffrey’.
Kellen, as the police records also document, asked Robson if the girl was over 18. Robson lied that she was.
Subsequently, Kellen scheduled Saige and Robson to come over to El Brillo Way.
The following day, however, Saige told some of her friends how she’d made two hundred dollars. One of them told the Vice Principle. The police were called. And the rest it history.
After a long investigation, in 2008 Epstein was sent to prison for 18 months and placed on the sex offenders register.
The truth about his sentence and the so-called ‘sweetheart deal’ can be read below.
As part of the plea deal, Epstein’s lawyers negotiated for a non-prosecution agreement to protect his members of staff, including Sarah Kellen.
Meanwhile, Kellen remained loyal to Epstein. Upon his release, she continued to act as his paid assistant and one of his close sexual partners. She also often accompanied him on his international trips, on holidays, and to his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Years passed. Kellen began dating and subsequently married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Emails in the Epstein files show that Epstein became friends with her husband.
She set up a renovations company, SLK Designs, LLC and ran it out of a building owned by Jeffrey’s brother, Mark, officially registering the firm under an alias, ‘Sarah Kensington’.
The company continued to operate out of the Epstein-owned property until her company was dissolved in 2015.
But after Epstein was found dead in a cell at the Manhattan Correctional Centre, everything changed.
His death certificate signed, all charges against him were dropped, and the public were left in want of someone to watch being burned on the pyre in his place.
Prosecutors and the press then turned their attention to Ghislaine Maxwell and to others from Epstein’s former inner circle.
It was inevitable that Sarah Kellen, the woman would find herself under serious suspicion and scrutiny.
So she went underground. She lived her comfortable life with Brian and evaded all attempts by journalists to interview her.
That was until the recent political pantomime surrounding the Epstein files, directed by congressmen like Thomas Massie in an attempt to smear their political opponent, Donald Trump, and by the money-motivated lawyers working pro bono for them. Lawyers like Bradley Edwards and, above all, David Boies, who represents some of Epstein and Maxwell’s accusers and has made an unimaginable fortune by weaponising politics and the media to extort institutions and Epstein’s former wealthy associates into paying him and his clients hundreds of millions of dollars.
The files were supposed to ‘name names’. The public, whipped up into a frenzy by the media, were promised the revealing of an elite global child-trafficking ring of Qanon proportions.
When that didn’t happen, and it was in fact revealed that Epstein was a depraved crook and pervert, but not a pedophile, and that no such trafficking ring existed, politicians and members of the press knew they needed to give the baying mob someone.
At the same time, the lawyers understood that, for the media to continue churning out the insinuatory, life-destroying stories that help Boies and Co. pressurise payments from their targets (they are currently suing two more banks on ‘behalf of the victims’, and will soon be suing American Express and Harvard University), they too needed to help deliver up the next scapegoat.
It couldn’t be Ghislaine Maxwell. Thanks to their campaign of sensational headlines and torrent of unsubstantiated allegations, she was already banged up in prison.
It couldn’t be anyone named by any of their clients - the the self-labelled ‘survivors’ we’ve all seen on Netflix documentaries and projected onto the big screens at the SuperBowl - and for a very simple reason: to date, none of them have actually been able to come up with a single name.
And it certainly couldn’t be anyone from the ‘list of co-conspirators’ read out by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie on the house floor… because it was later revealed that each man on that list was in fact completely innocent and had never even met Jeffrey Epstein.
Thus, while we all scratched our heads, they began to focus on the only people left to focus on: the women protected by Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
Most of all, they focused on Epstein’s longterm girlfriend and golden girl, Nadia Marcinko and, naturally, on Sarah Kellen.
Kellen’s days of being able to hide away and bury her head in the sand were finally numbered.
Speaking during a closed-door session with the House oversight and reform committee on Thursday, she said that she had come forward to challenge years of allegations surrounding her role in Epstein’s world.
In reality, however, Kellen has remained silent for over half-a-decade and attended the session because she was ordered to do so.
On March 3rd, she was formally requested by the House Oversight Committee to appear for a transcribed interview on June 3rd, with her lawyers, understanding there would be no way for their client to avoid giving evidence, believed to have negotiated with the HOC to bring the session forward due to the mounting political and media pressure.
There is also another factor that likely pushed Kellen to come out of hiding, a murkier reason that I explain in the below article.
“I am here today to answer your questions, to dispel rumours and conspiracies, and to tell you the truth,” she told the panel, before going on to give a testimony that stands at odds with the evidence - the endless emails, statements and photographs that I’ll be covering in a separate article early next week.
In prepared testimony presented to lawmakers, Kellen said the relationship between herself and Epstein had been defined by coercion and abuse rather than power or complicity.
“He groomed me, sexually and psychologically abused me, controlled me, manipulated me, dominated me, and gaslit me until I could no longer tell which thoughts were mine and which were his,” she alleged. “It was like living with a permanent virtual reality headset on.
“I was reminded every day how powerful he was – how influential he was – and that to turn on him or disobey him would mean losing everything: my job, my home, everyone I knew in the world, even my life.”
Kellen rejected claims that she functioned as Ghislaine Maxwell’s “lieutenant” as a “gross misrepresentation”.
“I was a literal indentured slave; in fact, she even referred to me as her slave and minion. I had zero power or authority, I was there only to serve and to submit,” she continued.
Photographs of Sarah Kellen and Maxwell, and emails between the two, curiously document a long, normal working relationship with no signs of coercion or grievances.
“I will not catalogue every assault; it would take too much time, but I want this committee to know that the abuse happened on average on a weekly basis, and was at times violent,” Kellen went on to allege.
She claimed that Epstein continued exerting control over her remotely while in prison in 2008, telling lawmakers that Epstein “even Skyped me from a computer inside the Palm Beach County Stockade and ordered me to undress for him on camera”.
Kellen told the congressional panel she had not even known she had been included in the non-prosecution agreement until after it became public, and said investigators never interviewed her beforehand.
“No one from law enforcement ever spoke with me, ever heard my side, ever asked me a single question”.
“I did not even know my name was in that agreement until after it had been signed and released to the public,” she said. “The federal government of the United States branded me a criminal in a secret deal with my own abuser, without ever once speaking to me.”
Addressing the question many critics have asked for years, Kellen said she lacked the resources, support and psychological independence needed to leave Epstein’s orbit.
“I know some of you are wondering why I did not leave. I had nowhere else to go. I had no money, no family, no education and no sense that I deserved any better. Epstein made certain I knew that defying him would cost me my life. He knew everyone in the highest echelons of society and everyone catered to him. I was a silent body in a chair beside men who started and ended wars.”
But this doesn’t ring true, most notably when considering that Kellen continued to have a close, friendly, willing relationship with Epstein even while she was living far away from him with her wealthy husband (Brian and Sarah remained married until just last year, the pair filing for divorce in February 2025).
Kellen did indeed previously make claims of abuse against Epstein, including alleging that he frequently sexually assaulted her. But this allegation was made in 2019 to FBI agents who forced her to speak to them, her view of Epstein only appearing to change after Epstein’s death and after she found herself in the crosshairs of prosecutors and the press.
There are also other parts of Kellen’s new story that simply don’t add up, lending more to the theory that - as with some of the other prominent former sexual partners of Epstein I’ve interviewed over the past five years - she is rewriting herself as a victim to end media smears and avoid legal action.
During the session, Kellen confirmed that she never witnessed any inappropriate or illegal behaviour by Donald Trump.
She refused to comment on the abuse allegations made by other accusers.
But she did name names.
Speaking with reporters after meeting with Kellen, House Oversight Chair James Comer said that it was “by far the most substantive and productive interview,” confirming that Kellen provided the names of three men whom she alleged to have been involved in abuse — though he declined to share those names publicly.
He stated that the names were ‘new’ and that the committee had not heard of the three men before.
“All the meetings that we’ve had with survivors thus far, they haven’t said any name. But the information that we received from the Department of Justice is they’ve turned over every document that they can turn over by law. That hasn’t led to any new name. So today was very helpful.”
“We want to see men — we don’t care who they are — held accountable for terrible, unlawful criminal behaviour.” he added.
Comer declined, however, to say whether his colleagues were convinced that Kellen was a victim of Epstein or a perpetrator of abuse.
The Committee is going to release the transcript of the interview in the near future, though it will undoubtedly contain redactions.
For now, I’ll leave you with one important thing that Kellen revealed this week that commentators and journalists have overlooked.
Speaking to a journalist at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) just a day before her interview with the House Oversight Committee, Kellen said that she has been seeing a therapist “experienced in treating survivors of sexual abuse”.
She said that with the help of therapy, she “now identifies as a survivor” and has “privately repaired and restored her relationships with some of Epstein’s victims.”
She divulged that the therapist whom she was referred to, and who has ‘helped’ her arrive at the conclusion that she is in fact a victim, not only treats her “through a trauma-informed lens,” but (most importantly) is also the therapist of “several Epstein survivors”.
I’ve been quietly looking into this aspect of the Epstein scandal for quite some time, particularly for my book, NAKED LIES; following leads, interviewing Epstein’s accusers, and digging into the potential involvement of the lawyers in having carefully-selected therapists ‘help’ to get certain women suddenly singing from the same hymn sheet.
I fully understand that, for reasons I’ll later explain, I’m talking in annoying riddles.
And I completely get why the importance of the above statement from Sarah Kellen might not be clear to you right now.
But very soon it will.
What else do we expect women who want privacy to do when the government is going through their files and millions of Americans know their names and faces accusing them of sex offenses? This is the most manufactured scandal of my lifetime! The people behind it simply want to keep the outrage machine going!!!
I have often wondered why we have never heard anything about her when she was the 1 making the appts and setting things up.!