Who Is Sarah Kellen?

Intrigued by the list of Epstein's co-conspirators on page 5 of his 2008 non prosecution agreement, I decided to look them up. The most prominent, whose name came up Thursday in the Maxwell trial, is Sarah Kellen. It appears that there's no good single source on her. The Cut says she is sometimes known as Sarah Kensington.

Kellen kept all of the names and numbers of girls who gave Epstein erotic massages and would call around to see who was available to “work” when Epstein was at his Palm Beach mansion. Some of these girls later told Palm Beach detectives that it was Kellen who would show them upstairs when they arrived at the house and set up the massage table for them.

One of Epstein’s victims, Sarah Ransome, said that Maxwell and Kellen coached her on how to pleasure him. “It was Ghislaine and Sarah Kellen that showed me how to please Jeffrey,” Ransome said.

According to the New York Post,

Kellen was Epstein’s personal assistant for at least 10 years and has been named in lawsuits as the “lieutenant” and second in command for the moneyman’s accused madam, Maxwell, who is currently facing serious sex crimes charges.

According to the lawsuits, she allegedly kept lists of young women to recruit as “massage therapists” for her boss, booked travel for them and even took them to his room where they were abused.

According to The Daily Beast,

Sarah Kellen, Epstein’s former assistant who allegedly kept a Rolodex of young girls to recruit for her employer, is now married to NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Along with traveling with her husband, the 39-year-old (who also goes by the name Sarah Kensington) is the owner of an interior-design firm, SLK Designs.

“Sarah Kensington makes a living doing what she loves in life, interior design,” a Facebook page connected to SLK Designs states. “She is the owner of SLK Designs LLC. and has studies at several schools including the University of Hawaii and New York School of Interior Design.”

. . . Although online mentions of it are scarce, records show the business once operated from a building in midtown Manhattan owned by Epstein’s brother. Also, per the Daily Beast, “The condominium listed to take SLK Designs deliveries, at 301 E. 66th St., is the same address where Epstein allegedly rented units to house models.”

. . . The page also notes that Sarah “is working with a number of clients on various projects including renovating several corporate apartments in New York, the Caribbean, and Paris. For the houses that Sarah manages, she does a number of duties which can involve organizing staff schedules, looking for and interviewing housekeepers and chefs, purchase and source items that are needed for the household (flatware, dishes, furniture, art, etc.), design floral arrangements, and interior design.”

Those duties seem pretty much the same as what Ghislaine Maxwell also did for Epstein, general household administrator, but now just without the nymphets. The story continues,

In 2013, Kellen married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers.

According to the New York Post,

Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged “sex slave” recruiter Sarah Kellen and her NASCAR-driver husband Brian Vickers have caused misery at celebrity condominium in SoHo, according to neighbors who complain of their endless apartment renovation.

The couple lives in the three-bedroom, $10-million penthouse of the Mercer Greene building, where Vickers is president of the condo board.

. . . Residents also complain about the disturbance caused by Vickers’ and Kellen’s own projects. “They’ve also done their own renovations over the last five years,” despite spending much of the time elsewhere, said one condo owner. “It’s the other homeowners that have to put up with it.”

Vickers and his firm Requiro Terra LLC are currently facing a lawsuit filed by Midhattan Woodworking Corp., who claim they completed work on the penthouse’s interior in 2016 costing $668,201, and are still owed $64,921.01. The work included a “shoe pullout wardrobe cabinet” and teak adornments to the shower door. Vickers didn’t respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.

However, Kellen complains that she is actually among Epstein's victims. The Maxwell trial has brought out Epstein's patterns of grooming underage victims in part by paying for their education, which also appears to be reflected in the careers of former associates like Melanie Walker, but at the same time, Epstein also provided apartments to other key women in his entourage. In Kellen's case, he seems to have set her up in business as well.

Questions remain. How was Epstein able to negotiate a non prosecution agreement for Kellen and an unknown number of others in her position? How much of a nest egg did he provide for her? How was that pricey condo, with its associated lifestyle, funded? But maybe most important, Kellen seems to have been just as culpable in trafficking underage teens as Ghislaine Maxwell, but so far, she's avoided any accountability, even to the extent of not having to testify against Maxwell. Why wasn't she even a witness in this trial? What might the defense have brought out in cross examination, for instance?