Sarah Kellen Tells House Oversight Committee Three New Names of Epstein Abusers

Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant, told the House Oversight Committee three new names of alleged abusers in Epstein’s network during a closed-door interview on Thursday, according to committee chairman James Comer.

“Former Jeffrey Epstein assistant tells House Oversight Committee he abused her for years Sarah Kellen appeared as part of the Oversight panel's ongoing Epstein inquiry”

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Comer said the names were not previously known and that the committee would release a transcript of Kellen’s interview as soon as possible, while he described the development as “The new names, that’s what we’ve been waiting for.”

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Kellen told lawmakers she “worked for and was sexually and psychologically abused by Jeffrey Epstein for over a decade,” and she said the abuse happened “on average on a weekly basis, and was at times violent.”

In her account, Kellen described an incident in Palm Beach where Epstein trapped her in a gym by lowering the metal hurricane shutter, “choked me, and violently raped me,” and she also said Epstein entered her room in the middle of the night and put his fingers inside her.

Comer said the Justice Department did not interview Kellen until 2019, calling that delay an example of mishandling in the Epstein case, and he added, “I’m more optimistic today than I have been a long time.”

Kellen told the House oversight panel that she was not Epstein’s co-conspirator and said she had no idea she was going to be named in Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement from the early 2000s, while ABC News reported her prepared statement said she was “sexually and psychologically abused” by Epstein for over a decade.

Comer told reporters that Kellen gave the committee “three names of people that were involved” with Epstein’s abuse, and he said “These were new names for us,” as the transcript release was described as “as quickly as possible.”

Clarin

Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the panel should consider bringing Kellen back in for an interview under subpoena because there were “a number of questions Kellen didn’t answer in the voluntary setting of Thursday’s interview.”

CNN reported that while Kellen was willing to answer questions about her own abuse, a source familiar with her testimony said she would not share information about the abuse she knew others to have suffered.

Comer also told reporters that after listening to her testimony, he believes Kellen was a victim of Epstein’s crimes, not a potential co-conspirator, and he said, “this was by far the most substantive and productive interview that we’ve had.”

Beyond the congressional testimony, newly released government files described in Clarin say the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump would publish more than three million pages of documents along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images under a law designed to reveal most of the material the agency had collected during two decades of investigation into Epstein.

“Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant gave the House Oversight Committee three new names of alleged abusers in the convicted sex offender’s network — a revelation that committee chairman James Comer described as a promising lead in his panel’s investigation into Epstein’s misdeeds”

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Clarin also reported that the documents include communications involving former White House aides, a co-owner of an NFL team, and billionaires such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk, and it said the files include an email correspondence with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.

In the same batch of records, Clarin said the FBI began investigating Epstein in July 2006 and agents expected he would be charged in May 2007, and it described that a prosecutor drafted an indictment after underage girls testified they had been paid to give Epstein sexual massages.

The New Mexico probes described by NPR add a separate track of consequences, with the state House unanimously creating a Truth Commission headed by Democratic state Rep. Andrea Romero, and Romero said, “We don't know. I mean, that's just it. If that wasn't the case, then what was the case? What happened here?”

NPR reported that the commission is scheduled to release its initial report on July 31, and it said Romero described the commission as funded by $2 million from settlements New Mexico reached with a bank that did business with Epstein.