Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant has dropped a bombshell new claim about the sick predator’s time behind bars, alleging he bought special treatment in jail with cash and Disneyland tickets.
Sarah Kellen, who worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, told the House Oversight Committee the disgraced financier allegedly arranged for gifts to be delivered to a Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy while he was locked up in Florida.
And according to Kellen, those alleged favors may have helped Epstein get access to a computer — which she claimed he then used to continue tormenting her from jail.
Kellen made the stunning allegation after Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, asked if she knew of any ways Epstein received special treatment while in custody.
“I know that he arranged to have cash and, like, Disneyland tickets, taken to one of the officers in the jail and I’m not sure what he received with that,” Kellen testified.
Kellen said she first learned about the alleged payoff from Epstein’s paralegal, Story Cowles, who allegedly complained about having to drive a long distance to personally deliver the cash and tickets.
The claim adds even more fuel to years of outrage over Epstein’s 2008 Florida jail sentence, which critics have long blasted as a disgracefully soft deal for a convicted sex offender.
Kellen also gave chilling testimony about what she says Epstein did to her behind closed doors.
She said the wealthy predator groomed, manipulated and psychologically controlled her for years after hiring her in the early 2000s.
“He groomed me, sexually and psychologically abused me, controlled me, manipulated me, dominated me, and gaslit me until I could no longer tell which thoughts were mine and which were his,” Kellen testified.
She compared the experience to “living with a permanent virtual-reality headset on.”
Kellen, now 46, was granted immunity from prosecution in Florida as part of Epstein’s controversial non-prosecution agreement, the same deal that has outraged victims and watchdogs for years.
Kellen claimed Epstein’s abuse did not stop when he was finally put behind bars.
In one of the most disturbing parts of her testimony, she said Epstein allegedly used a computer inside the Palm Beach County Stockade to contact her.
“He even Skyped me from a computer inside the Palm Beach County Stockade and ordered me to undress for him on camera,” she told lawmakers.
Kellen said years of abuse, sleep deprivation and coercive control left her emotionally damaged and unable to fully separate her own reality from the one Epstein allegedly created around her.
She also placed blame on Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate, saying the psychological conditions caused by both Epstein and Maxwell “crippled” her ability to make decisions or assert herself when it mattered most.
Kellen identified the Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy as Michael Fox.
But the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has denied the claims. A spokeswoman told the Miami Herald that Fox retired from the agency in 2020 and said the allegations did not come up during the Epstein investigation.
“The Epstein investigation did not reveal these allegations, and they were never investigated in connection with that case,” spokeswoman Therese Barbera said.
Barbera also said a 2021 investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found no inappropriate or criminal activity by sheriff’s office members connected to Epstein’s work release or permit detail.
Still, Kellen’s testimony is already raising fresh questions about how Epstein, one of the most infamous predators in America, allegedly managed to keep getting perks even after he was locked up.
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