A private assistant to Jeffrey Epstein has testified that she was “violently raped” by the infamous pedophile — and that he even managed to abuse her through Skype whereas he was serving time for intercourse crimes.
Sarah Kellen – who was generally known as Epstein’s “lieutenant” and even named as a possible co-conspirator in his 2007 sweetheart federal non-prosecution deal – now says she was truly a sufferer “trapped inside Jeffrey Epstein’s world” for greater than 20 years.
“He groomed me, sexually and psychologically abused me, managed me, manipulated me, dominated me, and gaslit me till I might now not inform which ideas had been mine and which had been his,” Kellen, now 46, instructed the Home Oversight Committee final month, based on a transcript launched Friday.
“It was like residing with a everlasting virtual-reality headset on.”
Kellen, who mentioned she was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness the place ladies “had been required to undergo and obey males,” testified that she first stripped for Epstein when he tricked her into pondering she was being thought of for a possible breakthrough gig as an underwear mannequin.
“I had simply obtained into my bra and underwear, and that appeared logical because it was a Victoria’s Secret casting, and I bear in mind similar to doing slightly flip, turning round so he might see my physique,” she recalled.
She ultimately began working, initially unpaid, as an assistant for Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was “imply and belittling” — however equally terrified of the terrifying “Jekyll and Hyde” pedophile, Kellen claimed.
“I’d witness him convey Ghislaine to tears, who I assumed was the strongest, coldest girl I had met,” she mentioned.
Kellen claimed that “after months of unpaid labor, Epstein instructed me to attract him a shower on [his private] island, then ordered me to undress and get in with him. And he mentioned, ‘The job is yours.’”
“Solely after Jeffrey confirmed that I’d undergo his sexual abuse did he start paying me,” she mentioned of beginning as his assistant in 2001 — claiming she was paid simply “$25,000 a yr for working continuous, on-call 24/7, months at a time with no days off,” with Maxwell allegedly calling her their “slave and minion.”
“I understood the mathematics precisely. I used to be being paid, partially, to be raped,” she instructed the committee.
The abuse continued for years, together with on Epstein’s infamous so-called Lolita Specific non-public jet, and his non-public island, Little Saint James.
“This was not a trip vacation spot; it was isolation,” she mentioned.
Kellen alleged one notably disturbing assault in a Palm Seashore health club the place Epstein “blasted the music so loud so nobody might hear, choked me and violently raped me.”
Shockingly, she claimed that Epstein’s abuse continued even whereas he was serving his 18-month sentence in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“He even Skyped me from a pc contained in the Palm Seashore County Stockade and ordered me to undress for him on digital camera,” she mentioned of the decision that got here “out of the blue” whereas Epstein was in a room with “plain, white partitions.”
She urged that the pedophile — who was allowed to serve a lot of his sentence inside an workplace — “would’ve been given particular therapy whereas behind bars.”
Kellen claimed Epstein “decimated any supply of autonomy” she had as he acted like a dictator.
“He dictated my haircut, my hair colour… He was extraordinarily, extraordinarily, demanding and had no sense of actuality in what it took to get issues accomplished,” she mentioned, saying her years with him left her struggling post-traumatic stress dysfunction.
“Because of the years of abuse, fixed sleep deprivation, and coercive management inflicted by Jeffrey and Ghislaine, psychological circumstances hampered my potential to establish my very own feelings, differentiate actuality from Jeffrey’s manipulated actuality, and crippled me from making choices or asserting company when it mattered most,” she mentioned.
The graphic testimony was the primary time Kellen claimed she had been sexually assaulted.
Beforehand, she was named because the “lieutenant” and is claimed to have “served as each his [Epstein’s] scheduler and a recruiter/procurer of the ladies,” based on a 2010 docket since launched by the Division of Justice.
Epstein was discovered useless in a decrease Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking expenses, and the loss of life was dominated a suicide.
