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This is a special Friday afternoon report. I am coming through because I have some exclusive breaking reporting on Sarah Kellen's testimony before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee yesterday. She spoke before this the con a number of congressmen behind closed doors and the actual testimony will be revealed in a few days. We'll get a written transcript but we know that she named three men as men who were tied to Epstein's abuse. And the names that she revealed are prominent figures in Epstein circle. Now I just want to start by saying the names were not public until I broke the news last night. But the three names, they are the celebrity hairstylist Frederick Fakai, the fashion photographer Patrick de Marcellier and the former Miami beach mayor Philip Levine. And I'm going to go over all of this. Why they matter, what connects them and how actually their connections go to the highest levels of power. I'm talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton and Donald and Melania Trump. They have a long history with Epstein. These people, they are all over the Epstein files. In fact, one of them, an Epstein survivor told me she was sent to by Jeffrey Epstein for a haircut for Kai and she said that she was sexually abused by him. I asked for comment on this and I've been waiting to hear back. I've been communicating to through his, through his ex wife Elizabeth Fakai and she denied it but we'll get into her denial as well. But I just want to go into all of this and more. So why does Sarah Kellen's testimony matter? Well, Sarah Kellen is really one of the first lieutenants you could say or the first AIDS to Jeffrey Epstein who's come and has testified and she was basically working for Galen Maxwell and she was managing the girls and she was, was managing them, their payments, booking coming. I mean she was young and she was in her teens but she was older, she was like 19. And a lot of the girls like Courtney Wild who was Jane do one she really ad they admired, they admire Sarah, Sarah Kellen. And Sarah Kellen's story is complicated. You know what she told the committee is something that she's told other people that she believes that she's a victim too of Jeffrey Epstein even though she was named as one of the four co conspirators. And in that sweetheart deal that Jeffrey Epstein got in that non prosecution agreement that extended to the co conspirators that they would not be prosecuted. This in the 2004 case when he was, he was charged with sex trafficking a minor. Well, you know she's come forward and Said, well, I was, I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein as well and by his friends and her family. I mean, she comes from a very dysfunctional background. She escaped an abusive family. So she has come forward painting herself as a victim, which others have as well. The truth is, is that Epstein, as part of this ring, recruited girls and then had them recruit their friends. The thing that I find most troubling is when it was the, the teenagers from the high school and that they were encouraged to bring their friends, they would get a hundred or $200 to bring their friends to be trafficked. And it was a pyramid scheme in a local high school and outside of Palm beach, where the girls were not. Were not, you know, were quite young. And it's really sad. And, and I think a lot of them hold a lot of resentment against Sarah Kellen for really running this operation. Outside of Ghislaine and a few others. Now, there are other assistants who still haven't come forward, like Leslie Grof, and you can see her all over the files. But I'm going to go into these three men, okay, the three men she names who are no strangers to the Epstein scene story. Okay, First I want to go into Philip Levine. He was the Miami beach mayor. Okay. And I know that probably seems, you know, you're like, why does this guy really matter? Right? Well, he's worth about $300 million, first of all, and he ran for governor in 2018. Now, by the way, if you go to tarapalmieri.com that's T A R A P A L M E R I dot com, excuse me, you will see the red letter where I broke this news last night. And if you become a paid subscriber, you would get that news first before anyone else. The first organization to actually be able to confirm my reporting was the Miami Herald, Julie K. Brown, who broke so many of the Epstein stories and who is executive producer of a show that we worked on together. She followed it today and gave us some credit. So as you can see in this article, flight logs, emails and long standing ties, it's the men named by Epstein's former aide. Please, you know, you can go there to this story and you will be able to read the emails that I pulled up that show this long standing relationship between Epstein, Glenn Maxwell and the three men that are named. But first, I'm going to go into Philip Levine. Philip Levine is interesting. Okay, Philip. Well, first of all, he's a government official. And when, you know, Jeffrey was released from his probation, if you see that date, it is July 14, 2010. That is when he was released from his probation for soliciting a minor for prostitution. He says to him in an email, just want you to know that I am happy that everything has come to a positive ending for you during these tough times. You are a great guy and I know all good things will come to you going forward in Europe for a while and hope we can catch up soon. Your friend, Philip. Yeah. Okay, so this is a guy who is essentially saying. And a government official essentially saying, sorry about what happened to you. Now, he wasn't a mayor at the time, but he was a very influential person. He was involved in the cruise ship industry in Miami, which is very lucrative. So he's sending this email now. I want to preface this by also saying that he has long denied his relationship with. With Jeffrey Epstein. In fact, to the Miami Herald, he said they never had a friendship or business relationship, although records show a much longer and more involved association dating back to at least 2003. Okay. In 2013, when he ran for mayor, Epstein asked if he could donate to his campaign. And he sent him a link. And then. Okay, and just to be clear, they're so close that there are 435 emails involving Levine, Epstein and Maxwell, and there are a dozen contact entries for Levine in Epstein's phone records. So, you know, here's another. There are a few other emails in there where he's asking Epstein for coffee and Epstein. And he's connecting Jeffrey Epstein to various business people. But then it gets weirder and raunchier. And this is with Galen Maxwell, who refers to her as. Who refers to him as boyfriend. Okay. And yeah, I think if you're reading that, I don't even really feel comfortable talking about it. But yes, hung like a horse. So she is saying that he told. She. Ghislaine Maxwell is telling Philip Levine that he told a woman that he was hung like a horse. They have some exchange about that. You can read all about it in the red letter. They have a very weird, blurdy relationship. They talk about Glenn, talks about consummating it. She calls him her boyfriend, says he wants to see her. You know, there's a lot going on there. And then I want to take it one step further. The Clinton connection. Okay, so when Galen Maxwell testified this summer in August 2025, before the acting Attorney General, then the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanch, she said that it was Philip Levine. See that guy in that picture with Bill Clinton, who introduced her to Bill Clinton, which we know ended up being a very long Running relationship that lasted for a very, very long time. One in which after Bill Clinton left office, he ends up traveling on the Lolita express with them. And there are obviously a lot of pictures of that. So Philip Lavine is the guy to thank for that. So go to the red letter, check it all out. I'm going to ask Abby to pull up the article so you can see it for yourself on the screen. And that is where you can actually read and see more of these. There it is. Flight logs, emails and long standing ties than men named by Epstein's former aid. So go to tower palmary.com and you can actually read these emails and go through my intensive reporting yourself. I'm going to keep going. Frederick Fakai. This was Epstein's stylist. Okay. He sent his victims, his aides, women he was trying to curry favor with, like Kathy Rumler, Obama's former deputy counsel, Sir Frederick Faki, and even Maxwell reportedly described the relationship with Epstein as friendly, very friendly. And you know, records show that he attended Epstein Diam Kapoor, that he would go to his home for house calls, that, that actually Epstein had a, an account running at Frederick's salon for 15 years. Okay. There's a great email in which he is inviting Fakai or asking the Kai if he should invite the former Prince Andrew to Monday. Boom Boom. He's referring to the Boom Boom Room, which is an exclusive club at the Standard Hotel. Again, you can read all of these intimate emails in the red letter. I break it all down, all the investigative journalism. One survivor, Joanna Schoberg, said she overheard Epstein on the phone with someone saying, quote, the Kai is in Hawaii. Can we find some girls for him? She said this in testimony in 2024. And like I said, one survivor told me that she was sexually abused by Fakai after Epstein sent her for a haircut. And then when she notified Epstein of the abuse, he said, well, he can be a blank buddy. Yes. So I reached out to Fakai's ex wife Elizabeth, who he's still close with, trying to get in touch with him. She said he would be in touch with me if he wanted to comment. But her reaction was, there's no bleeping way. He's a lot of things, but he's not abusive. Why would a person who's not that kind of personality, why would a person with that kind of personality take Epstein girls? Okay, so, yeah, it was a bit all over the place, but he's denying it, obviously. And he has not reached out. Neither has Philip Levine. I've made multiple attempts to contact him. I texted him. I've called him. He has decided not to respond. Now we're going to go into Patrick De Mar. He is a famous fashion photographer, and this is the Trump connection. Okay? The Boston Globe did this huge expose. Boston Globe famously brought down the Catholic Church, by the way, for their sex scandal. But they found multiple women accusing him of sexual harassment and misconduct. And he was the biggest fashion photographer of his time, like Princess Diana loved him. But he was also a prominent figure in Epstein's orbit, which is this whole modeling world, which is also where Melania Trump and Donald Trump fit in. De Mar is in Epstein's flight logs. He's socially connected to Epstein. You know, and then In a 2012 email, Epstein wrote, you know, am after London. I'm going with Patrick De and Russia Vogue to St. Petersburg. So, you know, he, he also had a relationship with him in which they were traveling together. And this is 2012. This is years after he was a convicted sex offender. And here is the part that is the connection to President Trump. Okay? He famously shot one of the best known portraits of Donald and Melania Trump in 1999 at Trump's residence in New York. And this is the one of the mock Oval Office, almost foreshadowing what was to come. And also, just they. They also serve together, Demarchelier and Trump as celebrity judges during major modeling competitions, including the 1991 Elite model look of the Year contest hosted at Trump Plaza in New York. And that is where a lot of teen models complained of sexual misconduct by another judge and friend of Epstein, magician David Copperfield. So as you can see, so many influential people continue to socialize, conduct business, and exchange favor with Epstein long after the public knew what he was doing. The real, to me, the question really is, what have investigators known all along and have some simply done nothing about? Right? And clearly, if Sarah Kellen is telling this, they had, you know, they've had this information for a long time. And James Comer says they haven't. This is new to investigators. They are going to follow up and they are going to. To continue, you know, to investigate this. We'll see if that's actually true. They should be subpoenaing all of these girls. But, yeah, I think if you guys, if you want to see all of my investigative reporting, I've been working with the phones overnight. It's been like 16, 17, 18 hours of calls and digging through files. Go to the red letter. Taraplmeri.com Become a paid subscriber, support this kind of independent Journalism, relentless independent journalism. And I think we're gonna. Hopefully this will, will open up some more avenues for our victims to come forward and feel comfortable talking, because she's one of the few who's been willing to name other names besides Virginia. Jeffrey, we've got some reactions to this. That's so creepy. I worked in the Frederick Beverly Hills. Just one comment. Sarah Cullen is the woman who, who Epstein left millions of dollars to. I don't know that, that he was actually, that he actually left money to her, but she was his assistant and they were quite close. And I think that's why a lot of these women are quite upset to hear her describing herself as a victim. Comer calls her brave. She does have a complicated story. And, you know, this is a really. Oh, by the way, if you go to this code right here, you can go straight to the red letter and read this reporting for yourself, and you can become a paid subscriber to support fiercely independent journalism. David makes a really good point. I assume these men will have their day in court where they can cross examine their accusers. You know, the right the Constitution gives all Americans. Just small stuff like David. I also think it's interesting that they have not been brought in to be questioned, these men either, because obviously they would have a lot of information about Epstein circles. So I think it's a bit of a. Both goes both ways. Thanks, Christine. I appreciate that. I think it goes both ways. Everyone does deserve their, their, their time in court. They're, they're all afforded a right to a defense. But, you know, the more you look into these men, and I'm going to keep digging, I think you do see a pattern in which they had a very intimate relationship with people who are quite open about a brain of sexual abuse. And, and they haven't denied it on the record yet, which is strange to me. And maybe they're waiting, they're getting their lawyers, they want to be ready. But soon these files, and I mean, this testimony will be on the record. It is on the record. On Congress. She testified under oath. David, let's not forget that Sarah Kellen did testify under oath. And she, if she's lying, she's perjuring herself, that's. There's big risk there, and we'll see what they do with it. Will we actually see some men being prosecuted based on her testimony? I hope, you know, I hope that the wheels of justice turn and they have their chance to defend themselves. That that's a fair question. You know, I, I do think to myself, though, that because Sarah Kellen worked for Epstein for so long and according to the victims I've spoken to, has seen all of it, she would know more people than just three names. And of the many men around Epstein, these are probably three of the least powerful men, although they are very connected and obviously Patrick is dead. But it's interesting to me that the names that she said, but, you know, maybe that's all she felt safe talking about. And we'll see what, what happens if they call in the other aids to Epstein. I don't understand why survivors aren't being called in one by one either to testify because I think they would feel probably more comfortable speaking under oath. It would protect them from defamation and all other issues that they have feared. And that's why they haven't spoken openly about the names. And obviously they just fear of retaliation from very rich and powerful men. Jesus. Well, he, he did. She didn't name him, so perhaps he doesn't care. Tom Crown, I'm sad to say you might be right. He says, I highly doubt any of these will see the inside of a corner court. They have the devil Republican party protecting them. Yeah, definitely. I mean, there's certainly a bias against prosecuting men during this administration, although they didn't do much prosecuting in prior administrations either. So this has gone back for decades. And yes, it's, it's, it's an incredible story and I hope that we learn more. And if you guys have any tips, you know, you can always send them to me@tara palmary.com you know, by becoming subscribers, you can email me and message me directly and we can keep this community going. So many of you have shared information with me as I break these stories and it's really, really, really important to me that we keep the conversation going. And if you have information about Levine, Demarchelier, Kellen or Frederick Fakai, I would be happy to hear it. I, you know, Jenna asks, have you interviewed Amanda Onaro? I have, I've spoken on the phone with Amanda. Amanda is waiting for her husband to arrive in Brazil before she does any interviews. So see what happens. I mean, she's clearly fearful. She's got the weight of the US government against her and she has her access to her son on the line, sadly. So we'll have to wait until Amanda feels comfortable. But I'm gonna take a few more questions, guys. Got my brother's wedding this weekend, so that's why I'm in my parents house. Yeah, this is. Who was the FBI, FBI director back then? What what administration you're talking about. Sketchy Roads Rhodes, FBI director during Biden was. Oh, my God. How could I forget this one? I've been writing about him so much. He was Bill Burs, the former deputy. State. State Department. Thanks, Christine. Former former deputy at State Department under Carrie. And someone that Epstein was closely tracking even invited him to the island. So, yeah, guys, please head to the Red Letter. I've got to take off and read the full report. You will learn way more. You'll get to read it up close, go through the files and see some independent reporting. I think it's strange that no one followed me for a day, not until the Miami Herald. Julie K. Brown. So that's why you should subscribe. Thanks so much for your time. Thank you all for your support. I hope you have a really great Memorial Day weekend. As always. If I get some breaking news, you'll get it straight to your inbox. If you join the Red Letter. And I will, I'll, you know, jump here and there on YouTube when I can. Talk soon. Bye.