Trigger Warning: this audio file contains descriptions of sexual abuse

This is part 1 of 3 of Sarah Kellen’s May 21, 2026 deposition given to the House Oversight Committee. If you would like to read her deposition in full, you can do that here.

Sarah Kellen was one of four assistants given immunity in Jeffrey Epstein’s “Sweetheart Deal” in 2008, which barred them from prosecution, but listed them forevermore as “co-conspirators” in his decades-long sex-trafficking investigation. According to Kellen, it wasn’t so simple—neither she nor the other assistants knew about the plea deal, nor were they ever questioned by law enforcement.

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