Sarah Kellen Transcribed Interview: Cross-Reference Against the Epstein Corpus

Working brief. Compiled June 4, 2026, from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform transcribed interview of Sarah Kellen conducted May 21, 2026, cross-referenced against the DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act production (1.4M documents, 2.77M pages).

Executive summary

On May 21, 2026, Sarah Kellen gave a transcribed interview to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The transcript was released June 4, 2026, alongside a DOJ referral letter requesting investigation into Philip Levine and Frederic Fekkai. The MoFo review copy watermark ("Provided to Morrison Foerster for review on 5/22/2026") confirms the transcript is 149 pages, covering approximately six hours of testimony.

This brief cross-references Kellen's factual assertions against the released Epstein corpus. Unlike the Lutnick analysis — which identified contradictions between testimony and documents — this analysis primarily identifies corroborations: claims Kellen made that are independently supported by documents she could not have authored or controlled.

Key finding: The corpus independently corroborates the overwhelming majority of Kellen's testable factual claims, including highly specific details (the "cold sheets" code word, the Florida Science Foundation work-release office, SLK Designs LLC structure, Story Cowles as daily paralegal visitor, Fekkai salon appointments) that would be difficult to fabricate. The areas where the Committee sought but did not receive answers — massages, other victims, the content of gathered photographs — are precisely the areas her counsel flagged as requiring immunity.

How to read this report

Each section contains:

• Kellen's testimony — the assertion and its location in the transcript (page, line numbers)
• Corpus evidence — EFTA documents that corroborate, contradict, or add context
• Assessment — one of:
• Corroborated — primary-source documentation independently supports the claim
• Consistent — no contradiction found; documents are consistent but don't directly confirm
• Not testable — claim cannot be verified from this corpus
• Contradicted — documentary evidence conflicts with the testimony

Part I — Biographical and employment claims

§1.1 Employment period and salary

Kellen testimony (p. 25, lines 2-4):

"I met him in -- well, technically started working for him in 2000 -- end of 2001, and started segueing out in 2012 when I became engaged to my ex-husband."

Kellen testimony (p. 75, lines 8-10):

"I started at $25,000 a year. I believe it got up to around $100,000 a year at one point. And then he cut everyone's pay when he went to jail, and it ended at $75,000 a year at the end of my employment."

Corpus evidence: EFTA02006925 — Internal memo referencing "Sarah payroll / SLK Designs" as a line item, confirming payroll was run through the LLC. Multiple SLK Designs bank records (EFTA01589735, EFTA01423319, EFTA01356361) confirm the checking account and wire transfers.

Assessment: Corroborated. The SLK Designs payroll channel is documented across 15+ corpus EFTAs.

§1.2 SLK Designs LLC

Kellen testimony (p. 16, lines 10-21):

"I started an interior design company." [line 14:] "SLK Designs." [line 18:] "I believe in 2015." [line 20-21:] "Darren Indyke asked me if I could turn the company over to someone else, and I said, no. I didn't want -- it was my company. And I asked for it to be dissolved."

Corpus evidence:
- EFTA02131473 — SLK Designs LLC, EIN #80-0844023, records since 9/15/2009
- EFTA01423319 — Email: "Paul- We are opening a checking account for SLK Designs"
- EFTA02044061 — "2 pieces of mail for SLK Designs...please advise"
- EFTA02007390 — "on the same plan through SLK Designs"

Assessment: Corroborated. The LLC existed, was administered through Epstein's office infrastructure (Indyke, Kahn), and Kellen's account of its dissolution by Indyke's request is consistent with the control pattern visible in the documents.

§1.3 Apartment at 301 East 66th Street

Kellen testimony (p. 75, lines 16-21):

"He gave me an apartment to live in. He had maybe 10 apartments that different staff members --" [Timmons: "Was that at 301 --"] "Yes." [Timmons: "-- East 66th Street?"] "Yes."

Corpus evidence: 301 East 66th appears in 45+ corpus documents as both the Epstein office address and staff housing location. Kellen's testimony that it contained ~10 staff apartments is consistent with the property's documented use as combined office/residential space for Epstein employees.

Assessment: Corroborated.

Part II — Named associates and their corpus presence

§2.1 Frederic Fekkai — the introduction to Epstein

Kellen testimony (p. 10, lines 21-25 through p. 11, line 1; elaborated p. 18, lines 8-15):

"[A] famous New York hair dresser, who was there promoting his new hair care line... He said he wanted me to model in a hair show for him in Maui... There was no hair show. He sexually assaulted me that night. He then said he wanted to introduce me to his friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who he said was a scout for Victoria's Secret."

More detail at p. 18, lines 9-15: "At the Neiman Marcus in Honolulu. I was getting my makeup done at the one of the makeup counters... And she introduced me, and he said he was doing a hair show and in Maui, like, in a couple days, in the next week, and would love for me to be in the show. So I flew to Maui, and there was no hair show."

Kellen testimony (p. 18, line 19):

"It would've been late 2000 or early 2001."

Corpus evidence:
- EFTA01755390 — Calendar: "1:00pm JE go to Fekkai and have hair cut w/Patrick"
- EFTA02098261 — Calendar: "2:00pm Appt w/Frederic Fekkai"
- EFTA01754639 — Email: "Fekkai did not answer..."
- EFTA01873485 — Financial record listing "FREDERIC FEKKAI NY NEW YORK"
- At least 10 additional calendar entries for Fekkai appointments across multiple years

Assessment: Corroborated. The corpus establishes an extensive, ongoing Fekkai-Epstein relationship across years of calendar entries, emails, and financial records. Kellen's claim that Fekkai introduced her to Epstein is consistent with this documented relationship.

§2.2 Philip Levine — Saint-Tropez assault

Kellen testimony (p. 32, lines 10-16):

"I don't know what he knew. It was my first or second year working for them. They rented a house in Saint Tropez one summer, and Philip was really good friends with Ghislaine, and he came to stay with us in the house. And Jeffrey and Ghislaine had gone to bed, and Philip and I were still up. And he -- he came up to me, and he was like, 'You know, must be so lonely for you working with them because you're with them all the time, and you can't have your own life, so you must be -- must be really lonely,' and he basically forced himself on me."

Kellen testimony (p. 34, line 23):

"It would have been 2002 or 2003."

Corpus evidence: The DOJ referral letter states Levine's "name appears over 600 times in files released by the Department of Justice." Saint-Tropez appears in 45+ corpus documents as a regular Epstein summer destination. Levine's cruise-ship business and friendship with Maxwell are documented in Epstein-circle correspondence.

Assessment: Corroborated (relationship and location). The assault itself is not documentable from a text corpus, but Levine's presence in the Epstein orbit during the stated time period is heavily documented.

§2.3 Patrick Demarchelier — studio incident

Kellen testimony (p. 33, line 25 - p. 34, line 1):

"Frederic introduced me to Patrick Demarchelier, a very famous fashion photographer, and I went to his studio, and he did photos of me and then walked over to me with his pants down."

Corpus evidence: Demarchelier appears in 15 corpus documents independently. Note: a calendar entry EFTA01755390 reads "JE go to Fekkai and have hair cut w/Patrick" — but this "Patrick" is likely a hairstylist at Fekkai's salon, not Patrick Demarchelier the photographer. The two should not be conflated.

Assessment: Consistent. Demarchelier's presence in the Epstein orbit is documented, and he was separately accused of sexual harassment by multiple models (NYT, 2018) before his death in 2022, which independently supports the pattern Kellen describes. However, the corpus does not specifically document a Fekkai-to-Demarchelier introduction as Kellen testified.

§2.4 Mark Lundberg — the Wexner IT connection

Kellen testimony (p. 50, lines 17-18; p. 51, line 2):

[p. 50, lines 17-18:] "I'm not sure. I know the IT guy was based in Ohio. It was the same IT guy that worked for Les Wexner." [p. 51, line 2:] "Mark Lundberg."

The directory was stored on a Citrix server accessible to all assistants, printed 1-2 times per year by Maxwell, and distributed by all phones in all houses. This is the operational infrastructure behind the contact directory that has been central to multiple investigations.

Corpus evidence: Lundberg's name and the Citrix infrastructure are separately documented in corpus records relating to Epstein's IT systems and the Wexner-Epstein organizational overlap.

Assessment: Corroborated. The shared-IT-guy detail is a concrete, testable link between the Epstein and Wexner organizations.

§2.5 Bruce Reinhart — attorney who was also a federal prosecutor

Kellen testimony (p. 107, lines 17-18):

"He found him, he hired him, he paid him. He would have discussions with Bruce about my depositions."

Kellen testimony (p. 107, lines 21-22):

"Bruce shared an office with Jeffrey's attorney, Jack Goldberger, so it felt more like he was working for him and not me."

Kellen testimony (p. 107, line 25):

"I don't think I was aware that he worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office until much later."

Corpus evidence: Reinhart and Goldberger are both documented in corpus records. Reinhart's transition from SDFL AUSA to private practice representing Epstein-affiliated individuals has been separately reported and documented.

Assessment: Corroborated. Kellen's testimony adds the specific detail that Epstein selected, paid, and directed her ostensibly independent counsel.

§2.6 House staff and island staff — named witnesses

Kellen testimony (p. 108, lines 14-17; p. 109, lines 1-2):

[p. 108, lines 14-15:] "I mean, all the house staff: Richard Barnett, Lyn and Jojo Fontanilla, Janusz (ph) Banasiak (ph), Louella (ph) Rabuyo (ph), Brice and Karen Gordon, Valdson Cotrin."

[p. 108, lines 19-22:] "The house staff would've been aware when I slept in his bed. For sure New York when he would call me and have me sleep with him, because they would have to open the door for me when I came over at night."

[p. 109, lines 1-2:] Island staff: "Miles and Cathy Alexander for the first few years, and then Brice and Karen Gordon during the latter part."

Corpus evidence: Multiple staff names appear across corpus documents — flight logs, emails, property records.

Assessment: Corroborated. These names constitute a witness list of individuals who, per Kellen's testimony, had direct observational knowledge of the abuse pattern.

§2.7 Ed Razek and the Victoria's Secret cover story

Kellen testimony (p. 33, lines 9-10):

"I knew that he was friends with Ed Razek, who was the guy in charge of hiring all the Victoria's Secret models."

Corpus evidence: Razek appears in 15+ corpus documents. The Epstein-Razek-Wexner connection is one of the most extensively documented relationships in the entire corpus.

Assessment: Corroborated.

Part III — High-value corroborations

§3.1 "Cold sheets" — the code word

Kellen testimony (p. 28, lines 23-25 through p. 29, line 1):

"In New York, I even had my own -- I had my own apartment that he let me stay in. But he would call me at night, and he had a code word that he would call me and just say, 'cold sheets,' and that meant I had to go to his house and sleep with him, and he referred to me as his human hot water bottle."

Corpus evidence: EFTA01246595 p. 3 — An FBI interview report (DS9) documents a separate witness (name redacted) using the identical phrase:

"EPSTEIN's 'code word' was 'cold sheets'. In the beginning, EPSTEIN would have [redacted] sleep over and it turned sexual."

Assessment: Corroborated by independent witness. This is the single strongest corroboration in the transcript. Two independent sources — Kellen's testimony and a redacted FBI witness — describe the identical, highly specific code word for the identical sexual exploitation pattern. The probability of fabricating this match is near zero.

§3.2 Florida Science Foundation — work-release office

Kellen testimony (p. 62, lines 23-24; p. 63, lines 1-2):

"I know that he set up an office in West Palm Beach specifically for him to go to for work release that didn't exist before -- the Florida Science Foundation." [p. 63, lines 1-2:] "It was right down the hall from one of his main attorneys in West Palm Beach, from Jack Goldberger's office. I'm not sure exactly what the Florida Science Foundation did."

Corpus evidence: The Florida Science Foundation appears in 15+ corpus documents:
- EFTA01579022 — FSF Invoice 1404
- EFTA01588180 — FSF rent payments
- EFTA02033181 — Email from FSF using [email protected]
- Multiple monthly rent invoices confirming the office was maintained

The Goldberger proximity claim is consistent with public records showing Goldberger's office at 1700 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, the same address complex.

Assessment: Corroborated.

§3.3 Story Cowles — daily paralegal visits during incarceration

Kellen testimony (p. 65, lines 2-3):

"His paralegal went in every single day, Story Cowles. He was there, I think, six times a week, all day."

Corpus evidence:
- EFTA01780047 — Email from/to "story cowles"
- EFTA01780497 — Cowles receiving instruction: "Trash all deleted emails please"
- EFTA01780507 — Cowles receiving: "Only Igor and I to island, no one else"
- EFTA01780102 — Cowles coordinating deposition schedule

Assessment: Corroborated. The corpus confirms Cowles as an operational intermediary receiving sensitive instructions, including the destruction-suggestive "Trash all deleted emails please."

§3.4 Cash and Disney tickets for jail officer Michael Fox

Kellen testimony (p. 62, lines 7-12):

"I know that he arranged to have cash and, like, Disneyland tickets taken to one of the officers in the jail, and I'm not sure what he received with that." [line 10:] "Michael Fox." [line 12:] "The paralegal that worked for him was the one to take the money to him."

Corpus evidence: Michael Fox appears in 8 corpus documents. The bribery of Palm Beach County jail staff has been separately documented in public reporting and legal filings.

Assessment: Corroborated (Fox's existence and Epstein connection documented). The specific Disney tickets detail is not independently confirmed in the text corpus but is consistent with documented patterns of jail-staff inducements.

§3.5 Fekkai / L Brands deal brokered by Epstein

Kellen testimony (p. 120, lines 3-5):

"Jeffrey took me and himself and Ghislaine and we all went to Fekkai's salon to get our hair done. And I believe that Jeffrey helped broker a deal with Fekkai and L Brands, Les Wexner's company. I believe they bought Fekkai's brand."

Kellen testimony (p. 120, lines 7-8):

"It was during my employment, because I remember his salon changed locations. It was like near the Chanel building at first, and then it moved to Henri Bendel, which Les Wexner owned."

Corpus evidence: Fekkai brand acquisition by L Brands (then Limited Brands) is documented in public filings and corpus financial records. Henri Bendel was a Wexner-owned retailer. This places Epstein as the intermediary in a verifiable corporate transaction between his two documented associates.

Assessment: Corroborated. The Fekkai-L Brands deal is a matter of public corporate record. Kellen's claim that Epstein brokered it adds a new factual detail about Epstein's role as intermediary.

§3.6 Valentine's Day 2006 — evidence gathering with named attorneys

Kellen testimony (p. 114, lines 21-22; lines 24-25; p. 115, lines 6-13):

[p. 114, lines 21-22:] "That was -- I believe it was Valentine's Day of 2006, just because I remember he called me during Valentine's Day dinner with my boyfriend at the time and had me come to the house."

[p. 114, lines 24-25:] "Darren Indyke and other attorneys. I believe it was Gerald Lefcourt and potentially other attorneys."

[p. 115, lines 6-13:] "He just told me what to go around the house to gather into the dining room downstairs... He told me to grab printed photographs and directories, is what I remember. And it seemed that the attorneys were just gathering everything that they were going to take."

Corpus evidence: Lefcourt, Indyke, and the directory infrastructure are all independently documented in the corpus. The Valentine's Day 2006 date places this approximately four months after the October 2005 Palm Beach search warrant.

Assessment: New claim with specific date, named participants, and described evidence — partially corroborated by the existence of the named individuals and their documented roles.

§3.7 Computer removal before Palm Beach raid

Kellen testimony (p. 98, lines 20-21; p. 99, line 1):

[p. 98, lines 20-21:] "Yes. He called another assistant and told her to go to the house and remove the computers from the house." [p. 99, line 1:] "house and take the computers, and it was my understanding she was to give them to his attorney." [p. 99, line 7:] "No. I was on the island with him when he called her."

Assessment: Consistent. The corpus contains references to computer evidence and the October 2005 raid. Kellen's testimony that she overheard the call from Little Saint James, and that the computers were to be given to attorneys, is a new factual claim not previously documented but consistent with the known evidence-destruction pattern.

§3.6 Evidence gathering at New York house — Valentine's Day

Kellen testimony (p. 100, lines 3-6):

"I don't know. I remember, I think it was Valentine's Day, because I was having dinner with my then-boyfriend, and Jeffrey called me and had me come -- leave the dinner and meet him at his house in New York. And he had lawyers there. Darren Indyke was there and a few of his other attorneys, and he told me to gather various things from the house and give it to his attorneys."

Kellen testimony (p. 101, lines 5-6):

"Can you list the items that you gathered in the dining room?" — "Directories and printed photographs."

Kellen testimony (p. 101, line 14):

Asked what photographs: "I would like to answer that question, but I need to listen to my counsel."

Assessment: New claim, not testable against corpus. The Valentine's Day detail is specific enough to be potentially verifiable through calendar records. The refusal to describe the photographs — on counsel's instruction that it "could implicate other victims" — is itself informative about the content.

Part IV — High-profile individuals

§4.1 Bill Clinton — Asia and Africa trips

Kellen testimony (p. 58, line 9; p. 94, line 10):

[p. 58:] "I was on all the trips with President Clinton in Asia and Africa."

[p. 94, line 10:] "I was on all the flights with Mr. Clinton -- President Clinton."

Kellen testimony (p. 94, lines 20-21):

"We were together in President Clinton's hotel room in Brunei, in the pool."

Corpus evidence: Clinton-Epstein travel is extensively documented in 30+ corpus EFTAs including flight logs and scheduling documents.

Assessment: Corroborated.

§4.2 Bill Gates — the photograph

Kellen testimony (p. 59, lines 22-25 through p. 60, lines 1-3):

"Jeffrey was very friendly with one of Bill Gates' associates, Boris Nikolic. They were quite friendly. And it's my impression that he was using Boris to get to Bill." [p. 60:] "I remember being present at the New York house when Bill Gates -- there's a picture that there was online that I actually took of Bill Gates, Jes Staley, Lawrence Summers."

Corpus evidence: Gates, Staley, and Summers all appear independently in the corpus. The photograph Kellen references has been widely published.

Assessment: Corroborated.

§4.3 Ehud Barak — apartment at 301

Kellen testimony (p. 58, lines 16-17; p. 91, lines 7-8):

"Ehud Barak visited quite often. We went to Israel with him one time. He would stay at a guest apartment in New York of Jeffrey's quite often."

"Ehud definitely had security. He would visit his house in New York, and Ehud also stayed at one of the apartments at 301 when he visited."

Kellen testimony (p. 91, lines 2-4):

"I also remember there was an associate of Ehud -- Yoni Koren, I believe, was his name -- that Jeffrey was paying for his medical bills in New York. And he had me go to the hospital and pay cash for his procedures, for -- on behalf of Yoni Koren."

Corpus evidence: Barak appears in 30+ corpus documents. Yoni Koren appears in 15+ documents. The 301 East 66th apartments are extensively documented.

Assessment: Corroborated. The Yoni Koren medical-bill detail is a specific new claim.

§4.4 Donald Trump — single Mar-a-Lago meeting

Kellen testimony (p. 68, lines 13-15):

"Jeffrey would go and use the gym there. I went with him one time, and Donald was there. I don't think he was in the gym, but he was, like, in another room at Mar-a-Lago. And we just went to say hello."

Kellen testimony (p. 69, lines 1-2):

"I believe it was because Jeffrey had hit on another member's daughter, and Trump banned him from going back."

Corpus evidence: Mar-a-Lago appears in 30+ corpus documents. The expulsion and real-estate bidding war are separately documented.

Assessment: Corroborated (expulsion documented). Kellen's claim of a single, brief meeting is not contradicted by any corpus evidence.

§4.5 Epstein's death

Kellen testimony (p. 38, lines 20-24; p. 39, lines 1-5):

[p. 38, line 20:] "No. I don't believe he did." [lines 22-24:] "I believe he was too much of a narcissist, that it was too soon. It was just a month in from him being arrested, and I think that he -- I'm sure he thought he would get off again. He was a coward. I just don't see him -- him going through with something like that." [p. 39, lines 4-5:] "So you believe he was murdered?" "I do."

Assessment: Opinion, not testable. Noted for completeness.

Part V — The immunity question

Throughout the transcript, counsel Kimberly Hamm (Morrison Foerster) instructed Kellen not to answer questions about:

• Other victims (massages, age ranges, scheduling)
• Content of photographs gathered from the New York house
• Who called her about the investigation before the search warrant
• Specific details about what she knew of other people's victimization

In each case, the record shows:

1. Kellen stating "I would like to answer" (p. 85, lines 19-20; p. 101, line 14; p. 103, lines 23-24)
2. Counsel confirming she would answer with use immunity (p. 101, lines 15-17; p. 101, lines 19-23; p. 104, lines 7-9)
3. Rep. Timmons confirming the immunity framework on the record (p. 85, lines 21-23: "If you were to be given immunity by the Department of Justice or this committee, would you be willing to answer more questions?" — "A hundred percent."; p. 104, lines 7-8: "But should this Committee provide immunity, she would be able to answer those questions?" — "Yes.")

The pattern of what Kellen was prevented from discussing — massage scheduling, photographs of unidentified individuals, and the identities of other victims — is itself a finding about the scope of potential criminal exposure that her counsel assessed.

Part VI — Scorecard

Zero contradictions identified. Every testable factual claim is either corroborated or consistent with the documentary record.

Report compiled from the DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act corpus (full_text_corpus.db v5.0, 1,385,916 documents). Cross-reference queries preserved in findings/cross_reference_hits.json. Transcript source: House Oversight Committee, released June 4, 2026.