Overview
- Kellen gave a closed-door deposition to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday in which she said Jeffrey Epstein sexually and psychologically abused her for more than a decade and that some abuse continued while he was jailed.
- Committee Chairman James Comer said Kellen provided three names of alleged abusers that investigators had not previously heard and that the interview was the panel’s most substantive to date.
- Kellen rejected her earlier label as a ‘‘potential co-conspirator’’ from the 2007 non-prosecution agreement, saying she was groomed, coerced, and had no realistic way to leave Epstein’s control.
- The committee plans to release a redacted transcript of her testimony, and investigators may pursue follow-up steps including subpoenas and additional interviews as they build a report due later this year.
- No criminal charges have been filed against the three men named in reporting, and the new allegations are driving renewed questioning of Justice Department decisions shown in records the DOJ released earlier this year.