Former Epstein Assistant Says She Was Groomed, Abused, and Controlled for Years, Reveals Heart-Wrenching Details

The latest person to accuse convicted s-x offender Jeffrey Epstein of s—-- abuse and manipulation is his longtime personal assistant, Sarah Kellen. In testimony submitted to the House Oversight Committee on May 21, Kellen said she was “s-------- and psychologically abused” by Epstein for more than a decade.

Kellen, who was one of the four women named as potential co-conspirators in the non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 between Epstein and federal prosecutors in Miami, previously said that she was “made out to be such a monster, but it’s not true.”

“I’m a victim of Jeffrey Epstein,” she said, according to The U.K. Sun.

According to a copy of her opening statement, Kellen said: “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.”

The House Oversight Committee is investigating the federal government’s handling of cases involving Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Lawmakers said Kellen may have information relevant to that inquiry.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaking to reporters during a break, said, “I believe she was a victim now.”

“I would yield to other members of the committee, especially the female members, and let them give you their opinion,” Comer said, according to ABC News. “But she was very helpful today, and very believable, very intelligent. You know, a terrible story to get there, and she was 21 when she first began being abused by Epstein.”

Comer called Kellen’s testimony “the most substantive, productive interview that we’ve had,” adding that she provided the committee with “three names of people that were involved in abuse.”

Comer said the committee will release the transcript of the interview as soon as possible. “The new names, that’s what we’ve been waiting for,” Comer said. “So today was very helpful, and I hope that we can continue that because we want to see people held accountable. We want to see men, we don’t care who they are, held accountable for terrible, unlawful criminal behavior.”

Kellen said she was recruited for the assistant job by a co-worker at a hotel in Hawaii. “I was 21 years old, far from where I grew up, stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere, with no college degree, no family, no friends, no money, and nowhere to live,” she said.

She said she traveled with Epstein on his private jet to his homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida, and New York.

“After months of unpaid labor, he instructed me to draw him a bath on his island, then ordered me to undress and get in with him, and he said, 'The job is yours. Now you just have to keep it,” she said in the statement. “He then pulled me onto his bed and made clear what ‘keeping the job’ required. Only after I submitted to his sexual abuse did the paychecks begin.”

“I was being paid in part to be r—. I was on call to him every hour of every day,” she said.

Kellen said she continues to suffer from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

She said she feared Epstein because of his connections and continued working for him even after he was jailed.

“He knew everyone in the fashion industry, academics, finance, government, powerful world leaders, dictators, and everyone in between,” her statement said. “From the beginning, he showed me that he was more powerful than basically anyone in the world.”

“Jeffrey was able to fool and manipulate the brightest minds in the world; the victims didn’t stand a chance,” the statement said. “I was a high school dropout from North Carolina. I was a silent body in a chair beside men who started and ended wars. I understood, completely, that if Jeffrey could walk into those rooms, he could walk into any room in the entire world. He could find me anywhere on earth.”

Kellen has also been asked to appear for an in-person transcribed interview before the committee on June 3, 2026, at 10 a.m. in Washington, D.C.