Sarah Kellen

Also recorded as	Sarah Kellen Vickers; Sarah Vickers; Sara Kensington123
Role	Personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, from about the early 2000s43
Federal investigation	Operation Leap Year, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida5
Named as a defendant	In the proposed federal indictment prepared by that office, and in the March 18, 2008 federal grand jury caption65
2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement	Named in the co-conspirators clause7
Deposed	March 24, 2010, in Florida civil litigation; invoked the Fifth Amendment8
SDNY investigation	Identified in a June 2020 search-warrant affidavit as “Employee-2” in the 2019 Epstein indictment and as a Target Subject9
House Oversight Committee	Gave a transcribed interview on May 21, 2026, released June 4, 202610

Sarah Kellen worked as a personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein from about the early 2000s.⁴³ She is one of four women named in the co-conspirators clause of the non-prosecution agreement that resolved the federal investigation of Epstein in the Southern District of Florida, executed in September 2007.⁷ The U.S. Attorney’s Office for that district had prepared a draft indictment naming her as a defendant alongside Epstein, Adriana Ross and Nadia Marcinkova, and the transcript of a West Palm Beach grand jury session of March 18, 2008 is captioned as a criminal case naming the same four.⁶⁵ Ghislaine Maxwell’s defence stated in her own pretrial motions that neither Epstein nor Kellen was charged with federal crimes in connection with that investigation.¹¹ Eleven years later, after Epstein’s July 2019 indictment and August 2019 death, a federal search-warrant affidavit sworn in the Southern District of New York identified her as the person the indictment called “Employee-2” and as a Target Subject of the continuing investigation.⁹ CBS Evening News reported on August 27, 2019 that she had denied wrongdoing, and The New York Times reported on August 29, 2019 that she and her lawyers did not respond to its requests for comment.¹²¹³

Names in the record

Court papers use several forms of her name.¹²³⁷ A subpoena and deposition notice served in Giuffre v. Maxwell in 2016 is captioned “Sarah Kellen (a/k/a Sara Kensington and Sarah Vickers)”.¹ The “Names for Voir Dire” exhibit read to prospective jurors at the Maxwell trial lists her at item 33 as “Sarah Kellen Vickers”.² An FBI link-analysis chart in the bureau’s Epstein file labels her node “Sarah Kellen Vickers” and refers to her throughout as “Vickers”.³ The non-prosecution agreement and the Florida charging papers use “Sarah Kellen”.⁷⁶

Role in Epstein’s household

Government Exhibit 52 at the Maxwell trial was a telephone directory belonging to Epstein and Maxwell.¹⁴ In briefing on its authentication, the government wrote that the household manager Juan Alessi identified in it “the name of Sarah Kellen, who began working for Epstein shortly before Alessi left his employment”.¹⁴ In post-trial briefing the government stated that the evidence at trial established that Kellen started working for Epstein in or about the early 2000s.⁴

An FBI link-analysis chart in the bureau’s Epstein file, case number 31E-NY-3027571, sets out the roles the bureau attributed to Epstein’s employees.³ Its entry for her opens, “Unknown if she was directly responsible for recruiting girls but at least 10 girls state she is the direct point of contact for scheduling his massage appointments in West Palm Beach and New York City.”³ It goes on to say that she greeted arriving girls at the Florida and New York residences, brought them into the massage room, and often paid them afterwards; that she was also Epstein’s personal travel assistant; and that she was “the direct supervisors to Adriana Ross and instructed her to schedule massage appointments, and destroy evidence during the Palm Beach investigation into Epstein’s conduct.”³ The entry closes: “At least 1 victim states that Vickers sexual abused her during a massage session with Epstein.”³ Those are the bureau’s summaries of what witnesses told it, not findings of a court.³ CBS Evening News reported on August 27, 2019 that she had denied wrongdoing; that was a general denial, it did not address the chart, and no response from her to the chart is recorded on this page.¹²³ Maxwell’s later pretrial filing states that neither Epstein nor Kellen was charged with federal crimes in connection with the Florida investigation.¹¹ In testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in May 2026, she said published descriptions of her as Maxwell’s “lieutenant” are “a gross misrepresentation,” that she “had zero power or authority” in the household and “was there only to serve and to submit,” and that Epstein began paying her only after she submitted to his abuse.¹⁵ Her counsel limited that interview to her own victimization; she was not asked about, and did not address, the chart’s account of the specific victim’s allegation above.¹⁶

The Second Circuit, affirming Maxwell’s conviction in 2024, recorded that the district court “found that Maxwell ‘supervised’ Sarah Kellen in part because of testimony from two of Epstein’s pilots who testified that Kellen was Maxwell’s assistant”, and that the court found that testimony credible in part because Maxwell was described as Epstein’s “number two and the lady of the house” in Palm Beach, “where much of the abuse occurred and where Kellen worked.”¹⁷

The Florida federal investigation, 2006–2008

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida investigated Epstein from 2006 under the name Operation Leap Year.⁵ Its file contains a proposed indictment, carried in the office’s grand jury presentation materials and hand-dated 4/25/08, captioned United States of America v. Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, a/k/a “Adriana Mucinska,” and Nadia Marcinkova.⁶ Its background paragraph states that Epstein employed her, Ross and Marcinkova to perform, among other things, “services as personal assistants”.⁶ It would have charged her in a conspiracy count under 18 U.S.C. § 371, in a sex-trafficking count under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(2), in a series of counts of enticement of a minor under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), in a travel-conspiracy count under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(e), and, alone among the defendants, in a count under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(d) alleging that, for commercial advantage or private financial gain, she would “arrange and facilitate the travel” of Epstein knowing that he was travelling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct.¹⁸ The draft is dated some seven months after Epstein signed the non-prosecution agreement, whose terms provided that the federal grand jury investigation would be suspended and its pending subpoenas held in abeyance; Maxwell’s later filing records that the investigation was resolved by that agreement instead.⁶⁷¹¹ CBS Evening News reported on August 27, 2019 that Kellen had denied wrongdoing; that general denial predates the release of this material and does not address the proposed charges, and no response from her to them is recorded on this page.¹²

The transcript of testimony before Federal Grand Jury 07-103 in West Palm Beach on March 18, 2008, later filed as an exhibit in the Maxwell prosecution, carries the same four-defendant caption.⁵ The investigation timeline exhibit records an entry of August 28, 2007 in which the attorney Nathan Z. Dershowitz reported to the office that he had left messages with Kellen and with Nadia Marcinkova asking whether he could accept service on their behalf.¹⁹

A statement of undisputed facts filed in Florida state court by Bradley J. Edwards alleges that Epstein “also threatened and harassed Sarah Kellen against cooperating against him as well” during the period when FBI agents were attempting to serve process on Epstein’s assistants in August 2007.²⁰ That is an allegation in a party’s filing. The general denial CBS Evening News reported in August 2019 does not address it, and no response from her to it is recorded on this page.¹²²⁰

The 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement

The agreement was executed on the authority of U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta and drafted by Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Marie Villafaña; the copy filed in Epstein’s 2019 bail proceedings contains three versions of the final page, signed respectively by Epstein, by his counsel Gerald Lefcourt and by Lilly Ann Sanchez, each dated 9/24/07, with the government’s signature line blank on all three.⁷²¹ The clause naming her appears at page 5 of 7:⁷

the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova.⁷

The agreement further provided that upon its execution and a plea agreement with the State Attorney’s Office, “the federal Grand Jury investigation will be suspended, and all pending federal Grand Jury subpoenas will be held in abeyance unless and until the defendant violates any term of this agreement”, and that on successful completion of its terms all outstanding grand jury subpoenas would be deemed withdrawn.⁷ See the 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement.

Maxwell later argued that the clause barred her own prosecution in New York, reproducing and analysing it in her February 2021 memorandum in support of a motion to dismiss.²² The motion was denied, and the Second Circuit held on September 17, 2024 that the agreement did not bind the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.²²²³ Maxwell’s petition for a writ of certiorari, filed April 10, 2025, reproduced the clause and excerpts of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility report on the agreement.²⁴

In testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in May 2026, she said she was not told she was being placed in the agreement and was not asked about it beforehand, that “no one from law enforcement ever spoke with me, ever heard my side, ever asked me a single question,” and that she did not learn her name was in the agreement until after it had been signed and made public.²⁵ She testified that she had no attorney at the time and was not questioned by any law-enforcement officer until 2019.²⁶

The Southern District of New York investigation, 2019–2020

The sealed indictment returned against Epstein on July 2, 2019 alleged that a victim arriving at the Palm Beach residence would sometimes be escorted to a room by one of his employees, among them two assistants it called “Employee-2” and “Employee-3”, who were also responsible for scheduling sexual encounters with minor victims, and that Employee-2 placed telephone calls to minor victims in Florida to arrange those encounters, in certain instances from New York.²⁷

An application for a search and seizure warrant for sixty-two electronic devices seized from Epstein, from 9 East 71st Street and from Little Saint James, sworn on June 26, 2020 by FBI Task Force Officer Paul Byrne before Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein, names Kellen and Maxwell as Target Subjects of the investigation, and as at least two potential co-conspirators identified since Epstein’s death, and states that “[t]he individual identified in Exhibit A as ‘Employee-2’ is SARAH KELLEN, a Target Subject of the ongoing investigation.”⁹ The affidavit adds that some file names on compact discs seized from the New York residence were marked “SK”, which it identifies as her initials.²⁸ The affidavit is a sworn statement of probable cause, not a finding. The general denial CBS Evening News reported in August 2019 predates it by ten months and addresses no part of it, and no response from her to the affidavit is recorded on this page.¹²⁹

On August 27, 2019 Judge Richard M. Berman heard the government’s motion to dismiss the indictment following Epstein’s death, and allowed women who said Epstein had abused them to address the court.²⁹ CBS Evening News reported that day that some of them “named Ghislaine Maxwell and Sarah Kellen as recruiters for Epstein and called for them to be held accountable”, and that “[t]hey have not been charged with any crimes, and both have denied any wrongdoing”.¹² Two days later The New York Times reported that Kellen “did not respond to requests for an interview” and that “[h]er lawyers also did not respond to requests for comment”.¹³ No statement from her addressing any particular allegation is recorded on this page.¹²¹³

Civil litigation

She was named as a defendant in civil suits brought by Epstein’s accusers in Florida from 2008.³⁰¹⁹ An internal U.S. Attorney’s Office summary of the civil docket records that in C.M.A. v. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80811-KAM, “Plaintiff sued Epstein and Sarah Kellen (Epstein’s assistant)” and that “Kellen is represented by Bruce Reinhart”.³⁰ The investigation timeline exhibit records, in July 2008, correspondence noting “that B. Reinhart is counsel of record for S. Kellen in civil suits”.¹⁹ Reinhart had been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the same office while Epstein was under investigation there.⁸

She was deposed on March 24, 2010.⁸ Edwards’s statement of undisputed facts records that she was represented at that deposition by Reinhart and “invoked the Fifth on all substantive questions” put to her about her role.⁸ A filing in Doe v. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80893-KAM, records the same invocation.³¹ The general denial CBS Evening News reported in August 2019 came nine years later, and no answer from her to the questions put at that deposition is recorded on this page.¹²⁸

In Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 15-cv-07433-RWS, Virginia Giuffre’s counsel served a Rule 45 subpoena and re-noticed her videotaped deposition for October 12, 2016.¹ Giuffre’s counsel later informed the court that, after the court authorised service by alternative means in June 2016, Kellen had not appeared for the deposition set for July 21, 2016, that a motion for a finding of civil contempt against her was filed on July 25, 2016, and that no response to it had been filed by the return date of August 25, 2016.³²

On January 26, 2017 a plaintiff proceeding as Jane Doe 43 sued Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Kellen, Lesley Groff and a fifth defendant in the Southern District of New York under the civil remedy of the federal trafficking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1595.³³ Epstein, Groff and Kellen answered jointly through counsel in a Rule 26(f) report that the complaint was factually and legally infirm and should be dismissed.³³

The Maxwell prosecution

At the Maxwell trial the government presented the testimony of a witness who testified under her first name alone.⁴ In post-trial briefing the government wrote that she “testified about receiving such calls from Sarah Kellen, who worked as a personal assistant to Epstein”, and that she “also testified about an incident in which Kellen took nude photographs” of her for Epstein.⁴ The government relied on that evidence to argue that the sex-trafficking conspiracy charged in Count Five involved a participant who was not involved in the Mann Act conspiracies charged in Count Three.⁴ Kellen was not a party to that prosecution. The general denial CBS Evening News reported in August 2019 predates the trial and addresses no part of that testimony, and no response from her to it is recorded on this page.¹²⁴

“Sarah Kellen Vickers” appears as item 33 on the “Names for Voir Dire” exhibit, a court list read to prospective jurors and filed with Judge Alison J. Nathan’s post-trial housekeeping order of February 4, 2022.² At sentencing the district court applied a four-level leadership enhancement to Maxwell on a finding that she had supervised Kellen, and the Second Circuit affirmed.¹⁷

Testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 2026

Kellen gave a transcribed interview to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 21, 2026, which the Committee released on June 4, 2026.¹⁰ Her counsel stated at the outset that the interview would address her own experience only and asked that she not be questioned about other victims.¹⁶

Her account of her own recruitment and abuse

In an opening statement she said she “worked for and was sexually and psychologically… abused by Jeffrey Epstein for over a decade,” and that a hotel co-worker introduced her, at 22, to Epstein and Maxwell as a couple looking for an assistant.¹⁰ She said Epstein first assaulted her on Little Saint James, that he later “pulled me onto his bed and made clear what keeping the job required,” and that “only after submitting to his sexual abuse did the paychecks begin.”³⁴ She said the abuse “happened on average on a weekly basis and was at times violent,” described an occasion on which Epstein trapped her in a Palm Beach gym, lowered the hurricane shutters, and “choked me and violently raped me,” and said it continued after his 2008 Florida guilty plea: “He even Skyped me from a computer inside the Palm Beach county stockade and ordered me to undress for him on camera.”³⁴ She said she was sexually abused at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch as well as in Florida and New York and on the island.³⁵ Asked whether she had reason to suspect that prepubescent children were also being abused, she said no.³⁶

The removal of items from Epstein’s properties, 2005–2006

She testified that Epstein twice directed her to gather items from his properties for his attorneys. Sometime in 2005, she said, she overheard Epstein telephone another of his assistants, whose name is redacted in the transcript, and tell her to go to the Palm Beach house and get “the computers” for his attorney, whom she believed to be Roy Black; she said Epstein had also retained a private investigator, William Riley, though she did not know when he “came into the scene.”³⁷ On Valentine’s Day 2006, she said, Epstein called her away from a dinner with her then-boyfriend to his New York townhouse, where the attorney Darren Indyke and, she believed, Gerald Lefcourt were present, and told her to gather “directories and printed photographs” from around the house for the attorneys, copies, she said, of a directory Maxwell had had made of contact information for the women who gave Epstein massages, which Maxwell had printed and distributed to the houses once or twice a year.³⁸³⁹ Asked whether this meant items were intentionally destroyed or withheld from the police, she said she did not understand at the time what the attorneys intended to do with what she collected.³⁸

Allegations against others

She testified that of the people in Epstein’s circle, three others personally abused her: Ghislaine Maxwell, Philip Levine and Frédéric Fekkai; a fourth, Patrick Demarchelier, attempted to but did not.⁴⁰

She said Maxwell was “present and participated in my abuse at least one occasion I can remember on the island,” and that Maxwell “would show me how to please Jeffrey, how to massage his feet.”⁴¹ Asked later in the interview how many people she believed Maxwell had personally abused, she said “I didn’t witness anything but my own abuse with her,” and that she had not personally witnessed Maxwell participate in the abuse of anyone else.⁴² ABC News reported that Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal sentence, could not be reached for comment on this allegation; it noted that she has more generally maintained her innocence and argued that the government prosecuted her as a substitute for Epstein, a position that does not address this specific account.⁴³

She said Philip Levine, later the mayor of Miami Beach and a 2018 candidate for Governor of Florida, sexually assaulted her twice at his house in Saint-Tropez in about 2002–2003, once when he “basically forced himself on me,” and again on a separate occasion.⁴⁴ She testified she has not sued him or filed a criminal complaint against him.⁴⁵ A spokesperson for Levine denied that any assault occurred, telling CNN, ABC News and NBC News: “Nearly a quarter century ago, our client had a brief intimate encounter with another consenting adult. Any allegation suggesting otherwise is not true.”⁴⁶⁴³⁴⁷

She said Fekkai abused her in Maui before he introduced her to Epstein; that account, and Fekkai’s denial through his spokesman, are set out on his own page.⁴⁰

She said Patrick Demarchelier, “a famous fashion photographer,” tried to assault her but that “nothing happened”: “He walked over to me with his pants down, and I refused to —”; asked whether he accepted her refusal, the transcript records a nonverbal response.⁴⁰ Demarchelier died in 2022, as CNN reported when it sought comment from his representatives; no response from him exists and none could.⁴⁸⁴⁶

Statements concerning Bill Clinton and Donald Trump

Asked repeatedly whether she was ever abused while Bill Clinton was on Epstein’s plane or in a room with them, she answered no each time, including as to a stay in Clinton’s hotel room in Brunei: “No, not — definitely not with Bill Clinton there. I don’t remember if anything happened privately with Jeffrey on that trip.”⁴⁹ She said Clinton and Epstein “seemed to be friendly for a short period of time” around trips Epstein arranged to Asia and Africa, that it “didn’t seem like it lasted,” and that she never arranged meetings between the two.⁵⁰

She said she was introduced to Donald Trump once, for about five minutes, at Mar-a-Lago’s gym in about 2001–2002, and that she did not see or witness anything untoward in the interaction.⁵¹ She said she had never met Melania Trump, and that she separately met Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump socially, years later, through her second husband.⁵¹

The December 2018 payment

She testified that in December 2018, after she described a period of financial strain to Epstein, he telephoned Richard Kahn and said, “Wire Sarah this money,” resulting in a payment of $250,000; she said Epstein separately dismissed the Miami Herald’s November 2018 series on him, in the same conversation, as “old news,” and told her not to mention the payment to anyone without saying why.⁵²

Her assessment of Epstein’s death

Asked whether she believed Epstein was the kind of person who would commit suicide, she said no: “I believe he was too much of a narcissist, that it was too soon… He was a coward. I just don’t see him… going through with something like that.”⁵³ That is her stated opinion, not a finding of any inquiry, and is reported on this page as such.

Related

• People: Adriana Ross; Lesley Groff; Nadia Marcinkova; Ghislaine Maxwell; Alex Acosta; Marie Villafaña; Brad Edwards; Virginia Giuffre; Sigrid McCawley; Alfredo Rodriguez; Survivor testimony in the Epstein record.
• Cases: 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement; SDNY 2019 indictment; Palm Beach Police investigation; CVRA litigation.
• Topics: Operation Leap Year; Epstein staff and assistants; Maxwell trial exhibits.
• Places: 9 East 71st Street; Little Saint James.

Coverage

• CBS Evening News, August 27, 2019, reported that some of the women who spoke at that day’s hearing named Ghislaine Maxwell and Sarah Kellen “as recruiters for Epstein and called for them to be held accountable”, and that “[t]hey have not been charged with any crimes, and both have denied any wrongdoing”.¹²
• The New York Times, August 29, 2019, “How a Ring of Women Allegedly Recruited Girls for Jeffrey Epstein”, described her as having been “accused in multiple lawsuits of scheduling girls to have sex with Mr. Epstein in his Palm Beach mansion” and reported that she “did not respond to requests for an interview” and that “[h]er lawyers also did not respond to requests for comment”.¹³

Footnotes

1. Plaintiff’s Re-Notice of Rule 45 Subpoena and Re-Notice of Taking Videotaped Deposition Duces Tecum of Sarah Kellen (a/k/a Sara Kensington and Sarah Vickers), Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 15-cv-07433-RWS (S.D.N.Y.), dated September 26, 2016, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00592742 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. “Names for Voir Dire,” court exhibit attached to the order of Judge Alison J. Nathan, Document 593 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed February 4, 2022; item 33 on exhibit p. 2, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00008863 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. FBI link-analysis chart, Jeffrey Epstein, case 31E-NY-3027571; node label and entry read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01653420 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

4. The Government’s Memorandum in Opposition to the Defendant’s Omnibus Post-Trial Motions, Document 621 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed February 25, 2022, pp. 30–31. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00009563 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

5. Testimony before Federal Grand Jury 07-103, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 18, 2008, filed as Exhibit C to Document 293-3 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE; caption at transcript p. 1, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00004663 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

6. Proposed indictment carried in “Grand Jury Presentation — Operation Leap Year,” U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida; caption and background paragraph 1 at document pp. 22–23, hand-dated 4/25/08, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00192670 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

7. Non-Prosecution Agreement, In re: Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, September 2007, page 5 of 7, filed as Exhibit 1 to Document 6-1 in United States v. Epstein, No. 1:19-cr-00490-RMB (S.D.N.Y.). https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000290 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

8. Same statement, ¶¶ 57–58, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00081180 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

9. Application for a Search and Seizure Warrant and affidavit of FBI Task Force Officer Paul Byrne, Case No. 20 MAG 6719 (S.D.N.Y.), sworn June 26, 2020, application p. 1 and affidavit ¶¶ 12, 16–17 (pp. 12–13 of the run), read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01653490 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

10. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Transcribed Interview of Sarah Kellen, May 21, 2026, p. 9, released Jun 4, 2026; read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩² ↩³

11. Omnibus Memorandum of Ghislaine Maxwell in Support of Her Supplemental Pretrial Motions Relating to the S2 Superseding Indictment, No. S2 20 Cr. 330 (AJN), brief p. 2, read from the page image: “Epstein, himself, was never charged with federal crimes in connection with the Florida Investigation; nor was Kellen.” This is an assertion in a defence filing. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00103758 ↩ ↩² ↩³

12. FBI Public Affairs, “Director’s AM News Briefing,” August 28, 2019, p. 3, summarising the CBS Evening News report of August 27, 2019 by Mola Lenghi; read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00161007 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

13. “How a Ring of Women Allegedly Recruited Girls for Jeffrey Epstein,” The New York Times, August 29, 2019. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

14. Government brief on the authentication of Government Exhibit 52, Document 533 in United States v. Maxwell, No. 1:20-cr-00330-PAE, filed December 9, 2021, p. 4. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00008273 ↩ ↩²

15. Same interview, p. 11, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

16. Same interview, p. 48 (counsel limiting the interview to the witness’s own experience), read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩²

17. United States v. Maxwell, No. 22-1426-cr, Document 109-1, decided September 17, 2024 (2d Cir.), opinion pp. 24–25, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000002 ↩ ↩²

18. Same proposed indictment, Counts 1, 11, 12–23, 24 and 25, at document pp. 27, 61–70; Count 25 read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00192670 ↩

19. “Epstein Investigation Timeline,” Exhibit A-1 to the written response of AUSA A. Marie Villafaña to the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility, transmitted 10 May 2019; the exhibit itself carries no author, addressee or date, and is identified from the exhibit index at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00225378 p.44, pp. 11 and 41 of 51. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00224943 ↩ ↩² ↩³

20. Statement of Undisputed Facts of Bradley J. Edwards, filed as an exhibit to Document 291-15 in Doe v. United States, No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla.), January 21, 2015, ¶ 20, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00081180 ↩ ↩²

21. Same document, the two versions of “Page 7 of 7” and the addendum signature pages, read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000290 ↩

22. Memorandum of Ghislaine Maxwell in Support of Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment for Breach of Non-Prosecution Agreement, Document 142 in No. 1:20-cr-00330-AJN, filed February 4, 2021. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00002573 ↩ ↩²

23. Same opinion, p. 6 (the co-conspirators clause, read from the page image) and the holding on the reach of the agreement. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000002 ↩

24. Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Maxwell v. United States, filed April 10, 2025; the clause appears in Appendix A at 5a, read from the page image, and excerpts of the OPR report appear in the later appendices. https://epstein-data.com/DOJ-OGR-00000034 ↩

25. Same interview, pp. 13–14, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

26. Same interview, p. 41, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

27. Sealed Indictment, United States v. Jeffrey Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (S.D.N.Y.), ¶¶ 15, 18. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01265886 ↩

28. Same affidavit, ¶ 36, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01653490 ↩

29. Transcript of proceedings, United States v. Epstein, No. 19 Cr. 490 (RMB) (S.D.N.Y.), August 27, 2019, filed as Document 53 on September 3, 2019, transcript p. 3, read from the page image of the copy in the released files. The copies in the released files black out the names of the women who spoke and of the people they named, and no name is taken from them here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00019994 ↩

30. U.S. Attorney’s Office internal summary of the Epstein civil suits, entry 8 (C.M.A. v. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80811-KAM), document p. 9. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00192835 ↩ ↩²

31. Plaintiff’s filing, Document 197 in Doe v. Epstein, No. 08-cv-80893-KAM (S.D. Fla.), entered July 2, 2010, p. 17. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00222648 ↩

32. Letter of Sigrid S. McCawley to Judge Robert W. Sweet, September 13, 2016, filed as Document 433 in Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 15-cv-07433-RWS. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00592742 ↩

33. Joint Rule 26(f) Report, Document 28 in Jane Doe 43 v. Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, and Natalya Malyshev, No. 1:17-cv-00616-JGK (S.D.N.Y.), filed April 5, 2017, p. 1, read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00310348 ↩ ↩²

34. Same interview, p. 12, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩²

35. Same interview, p. 136, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

36. Same interview, p. 37, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

37. Same interview, pp. 113–114, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

38. Same interview, pp. 100–101, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩²

39. Same interview, p. 50, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

40. Same interview, p. 95, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩² ↩³

41. Same interview, p. 74, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

42. Same interview, p. 145, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

43. James Hill, “Lawmakers ask DOJ to investigate additional alleged abusers named by former Epstein assistant,” ABC News, June 4, 2026. https://abcnews.com/US/lawmakers-doj-investigate-additional-alleged-abusers-named-former/story?id=133567240 ↩ ↩²

44. Same interview, pp. 83–85, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

45. Same interview, pp. 87–88, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

46. Annie Grayer and Nicky Robertson, “New details revealed of Epstein assistant’s abuse allegations as GOP lawmakers call for DOJ investigation,” CNN, June 4, 2026. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/epstein-assistant-transcript-doj-referral ↩ ↩²

47. NBC6, “GOP lawmakers seek sex assault investigation of ex-Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine amid Epstein probe,” NBC 6 South Florida, June 4, 2026. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/gop-lawmakers-seek-sex-assault-investigation-of-ex-miami-beach-mayor-philip-levine-amid-epstein-probe/3817011/ ↩

48. Annie Grayer and Nicky Robertson, “Here is who Epstein’s longtime assistant accused of sexual abuse,” CNN, May 22, 2026. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/politics/sarah-kellen-epstein-abuse-allegations ↩

49. Same interview, p. 93, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

50. Same interview, p. 94, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

51. Same interview, pp. 141–142, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩ ↩²

52. Same interview, pp. 128–129, read from the page images. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩

53. Same interview, p. 38, read from the page image. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPDWYcqxugpod1-b98xuayS-RkUtrcyS/view ↩