Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal assistant, told the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that she was repeatedly raped and abused by the convicted sex offender — and handed lawmakers the names of three previously unknown alleged offenders.
Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced the development after Kellen's closed-door, transcribed interview, calling it "by far the most substantive and productive interview that we've had. She was very brave."
Kellen, 46, was named as a "potential co-conspirator" in Epstein's 2007 nonprosecution agreement with Florida federal prosecutors, but she has long maintained she was also one of his victims.
In her opening statement, obtained by reporters, Kellen said the abuse "happened on average on a weekly basis, and was at times violent."
She described one harrowing incident in graphic detail: "It included Jeffrey entering my room in the middle of the night and putting his fingers inside me, waking me up from my sleep. It included an occasion in Palm Beach when he trapped me in the gym by lowering the metal hurricane shutter... choked me, and violently raped me."
Kellen anticipated skepticism about why she remained with Epstein for more than a decade.
"I had nowhere else to go," she told the committee. "I had no money, no family, no education, and no sense that I deserved any better."
She also pushed back on her co-conspirator designation, saying she was never given a chance to tell her side.
"I was not told this was happening. I was not asked about it," Kellen said. "No one from law enforcement ever spoke with me, ever heard my side, ever asked me a single question."
Comer said Kellen also described her own abuse "at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell" — and that the three names she provided were offenders the committee "hadn't heard before."
The committee has not publicly released the three names.
