Sarah Kellen, Three New Names, and the Expanding Epstein Inquiry (5/22/26)

Sarah Kellen’s closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee is being described by Chairman James Comer as the most substantive and productive testimony the committee has received so far in its Epstein probe. Kellen, one of the four women named as a potential co-conspirator in Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement, reportedly gave lawmakers three new names of people she said were involved in Epstein’s abuse operation. Comer said those names were new to the committee and that Kellen had been “very helpful,” with the committee planning to release the transcript as quickly as possible. That alone makes the testimony significant because Kellen was not some peripheral figure; she worked for Epstein for more than a decade, has long been accused by survivors and court filings of helping schedule massages and manage logistics, and was protected by the same controversial Florida deal that helped keep Epstein’s wider network from being fully exposed.

Kellen’s testimony also directly confronted the central controversy around her role: she denied being Epstein’s accomplice and instead described herself as one of his victims. In her prepared remarks, she said Epstein sexually and psychologically abused, controlled, manipulated, and dominated her for years, claiming she had no real power and was trapped by dependence, fear, and coercion. She also said she was never interviewed by law enforcement before being branded a potential co-conspirator in the plea agreement, arguing that the federal government placed her name in a secret deal with her abuser without hearing her side. For investigators and survivors, though, the testimony does not close the book; it opens a harder chapter. If Kellen provided new names, new context, and a detailed account of how Epstein controlled the people around him, then Congress now has a deeper trail to follow—not only into Epstein’s abuse, but into why the justice system failed for so long to separate victims, facilitators, witnesses, and protected insiders.



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Sarah Kellen gave ‘most substantive’ testimony yet in Epstein probe, Comer says


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