Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant Sarah Kellen has dodged prosecution for sex trafficking despite being repeatedly mentioned in his grand jury files from 2005.
Kellen was named three times by Epstein’s victims in the transcript of a court hearing in Palm Beach, Florida, during the original investigation into the late pedophile’s sex trafficking ring.
Victims described her greeting them at his now-razed seafront mansion and then leading them upstairs to the massage room.
Once there, Kellen set up the oils for the massage before Epstein arrived and sexually assaulted or raped them.
One victim described how she contacted Kellen to make an appointment to see Epstein, the first of ‘hundreds’ of times she would go to his house to be sexually assaulted.
Also named repeatedly was Nadia Marcinko – also known as Marcinkova – a model from Eastern Europe who victims said they had sex with at Epstein’s command.
Both women were named as alleged co-conspirators under Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal with prosecutors in Palm Beach in 2008.
Unsealed court documents allege Marcinko, who has never been charged with any crime, procured young women for Epstein, a claim her lawyers have denied.
But under the extraordinary terms of the deal they were exempt from prosecution.
Another woman mentioned in the grand jury files, which were released this week, was Ghislaine Maxwell but she eventually did go on trial and was found guilty in 2021 and is serving a 20 year prison sentence.
An Epstein victim told DailyMail.com: ‘I have never understood why Sarah Kellen did not face prosecution.
‘She was deeply involved in Epstein’s operation. She should face justice just like Ghislaine Maxwell did’.
In the 176 pages of grand jury transcripts is testimony from Joseph Recarey, the late Palm Beach police detective who was one of the main officers investigating Epstein.
He told the court he interviewed one girl who had just graduated from high school and said she sent six others to Epstein.
Based on her claiming she was like Heidi Fleiss, the notorious Hollywood madam, she appears to be Haley Robson.
The girl said that she first met Epstein when she was 17 and was taken to his house where she met a woman called Sarah, who appears to be Kellen.
Recarey said that the girl told him: ‘She was taken to the house. She was introduced to Epstein’s assistant by the name of Sarah.
‘Sarah then would escort her upstairs, prepare the room for massage by putting out the ointments and the different oils’.
When the girl refused Epstein’s advances he told her he would pay her to bring other girls to him.
Epstein said: ‘The younger the better’, Recarey told the grand jury.
Perhaps the most disturbing account came from one victim who said she began going to Epstein’s aged 16 and went there ‘hundreds of times’.
This victim identified Sarah Kellen by her full name and said she led her up to the massage room where Epstein began to masturbate at her.
Recarey said: ‘She recalled that the appointment was set up for that day.
‘They (the victim) contacted Mr Epstein’s assistant, Sarah; later identified as Sarah Kellen; where the appointment was made.
‘She (the victim) was taken (to the house). She remembered it was on the weekends because she only worked on the weekends as she was still going to high school’.
According to the victim, she was forced to take part in threesomes with Nadia Marcinko, who Epstein is said to have bought from her parents when she was 14.
Epstein referred to her as his ‘Yugoslavian sex slave’ although she was actually born in Slovakia, part of the former Czechoslovakia.
Epstein persuaded the teen to give oral sex to Marcinko during a threesome by offering her another $200 if she did it for five minutes, she said.
The victim had been told that Epstein would never penetrate her as he had a ‘deformed’ penis but one time he ‘grabbed (her) and placed her head on the massage table and inserted his penis in her vagina’
According to the victim, Marcinko bought sex toys for them to use as a present for Epstein’s birthday one year.
Another victim, 18, also named Marcinko while recounting how she was abused by Epstein from the age of 16.
She was paid $200 each visit and one time he asked her to touch Marcinko’s breasts, which she did.
A third victim identified Kellen and described being introduced to Epstein’s assistant called ‘Sarah’
Recarey said the stories were ‘consistent with all the girls’.
He said: ‘They would be introduced to the assistant who would lead her upstairs and prepare the room for the massage in the master bathroom area.
‘She would put a blanket over the massage tables and provide the ointments that Mr Epstein would like to have used’.
In the case of this victim, who was 16, she was paid $300 for her first visit and then each follow up visit became more and more sexual.
Kellen has previously denied any wrongdoing and said she is not a ‘monster’.
Her parents have previously said that she was ‘vulnerable’ when she met Epstein having become estranged from them when she was 18 because she stopped being a Jehovah’s Witness, the religion her mother and father follow.
Her parents Thomas and Mary Kellen told DailyMail.com in 2020 that they feared she was ‘brainwashed’ and somebody might kill her.
After leaving Epstein’s orbit Kellen married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and the two live in an apartment in New York.
Calls to Kellen were not immediately returned.
The other two women who were named as co-conspirators in Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, Lesley Groff and Adriana Ross, have also denied wrongdoing.