2026-05-21 22:51:45 GMT / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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发布于2026年5月21日，美国东部时间下午6:51
杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的前助手萨拉·凯伦于5月21日在华盛顿特区国会山出席众议院监督委员会的闭门采访作证。
杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的长期助手向众议院监督委员会提供了三名新的、隶属于这名已定罪性犯罪者网络的所谓施虐者姓名——委员会主席詹姆斯·科默称这是其团队调查爱泼斯坦恶行的一个重要线索。
科默表示，这位名为萨拉·凯伦的助手在周四的闭门采访中提供了这些姓名。他拒绝透露这些人的身份，但称他们此前从未被曝光，并承诺将尽快公布凯伦采访的完整 transcript。
“我们一直在等待的就是这些新名字，”科默说道，并补充道，“我今天比很长一段时间以来都更乐观。”
凯伦在爱泼斯坦的人脉圈中是一个极具争议的人物，她与这位声名狼藉的已故金融家的合作让她得以接触到其活动的大量细节。2007年，执法部门将她列为爱泼斯坦的潜在同谋，许多人认为她帮助爱泼斯坦招募并虐待少女。但她自称是爱泼斯坦虐待的受害者，尽管执法部门曾就她可能协助爱泼斯坦一事展开调查，但一些观察人士承认她的处境十分复杂。
在周四长达数小时的闭门证词中，凯伦表示自己并非爱泼斯坦的同谋，也不知道自己会被列入21世纪初爱泼斯坦的不起诉协议名单。相反，根据凯伦向CNN提供的开场发言副本，她作证称自己“受雇于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦，并遭受了他的性虐待和心理虐待”。
凯伦以极其详细的描述讲述了她所称遭受的性虐待。
“我想让委员会知道，虐待平均每周都会发生，有时还会使用暴力，”凯伦在发言中说道，“其中包括杰弗里在深夜闯入我的房间，将手指伸进我的体内，将我从睡梦中惊醒。还有一次在棕榈滩，他把我困在健身房里，放下金属防风卷帘，把音乐开到震耳欲聋的程度，让没人能听见，然后掐住我的脖子，对我实施暴力强奸。”
民主党众议员梅兰妮·斯坦斯伯里告诉记者，她向凯伦询问了她在爱泼斯坦新墨西哥牧场的经历，目前该牧场正在接受州调查，凯伦表示那里就是她遭受爱泼斯坦虐待的地点之一。
凯伦称，多年来，她根本无法摆脱爱泼斯坦的强大控制：“我无处可去。我没有钱，没有家人，没有受过教育，也不觉得自己配得上更好的生活。”
斯坦斯伯里表示，她还询问凯伦是否认为爱泼斯坦的同谋吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦应该被转移到更低安保级别的监狱，或是应该获得总统赦免。对于这两个问题，凯伦都给出了否定的答案，甚至还将爱泼斯坦的一些不当行为归咎于麦克斯韦。据斯坦斯伯里透露，凯伦称“麦克斯韦将爱泼斯坦变成了他后来那样的怪物”。
众议院监督委员会主席、共和党众议员詹姆斯·科默（肯塔基州）在周四华盛顿特区国会山杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的前助手萨拉·凯伦出席众议院监督委员会闭门采访作证前向记者发表讲话。
科默表示，司法部直到2019年才对凯伦进行讯问，他认为这正是调查人员此前处理爱泼斯坦案件时失职的一个例证。CNN已就此事联系司法部置评。
“每次我们约谈某人，都会有更多证据表明政府辜负了受害者。这是显而易见的，”科默说道。
科默表示，在听完凯伦的证词后，他认为凯伦是爱泼斯坦罪行的受害者，而非潜在的同谋。
“在我们迄今为止约谈的所有人中，这无疑是最实质性、最有成效的一次采访。她勇敢地站了出来。我无法想象她详细讲述自己遭受爱泼斯坦和麦克斯韦虐待的经历有多困难，”科默说道。
但其他人表示，他们还有更多问题要向凯伦询问。民主党众议员拉贾·克里希纳穆尔蒂表示，委员会应考虑通过传票让凯伦再次接受采访，因为在周四的自愿采访中，凯伦还有许多问题没有回答。
“我想了解更多关于其他参与者、其他机构、其他女性的情况，还有谁是这起案件的潜在同谋，”克里希纳穆尔蒂说道。
另一位熟悉凯伦证词的消息人士告诉CNN，尽管凯伦愿意回答有关她自身遭受虐待的问题，但她不会透露任何她所知晓的他人遭受虐待的信息。
此外，凯伦称自己从未目睹过唐纳德·特朗普总统的任何不当行为，但她作证表示，鉴于爱泼斯坦在其所有房产中都悬挂着特朗普的照片，她认为爱泼斯坦和特朗普曾经关系密切，该消息人士补充道。
科默表示，凯伦作证称爱泼斯坦曾去过海湖庄园健身，但特朗普将他赶了出去，因为爱泼斯坦“对一名会员的女儿动手动脚之类的”。
Epstein’s longtime assistant accused three previously unknown abusers connected to him, Oversight chair says
2026-05-21 22:51:45 GMT / CNN
By Annie Grayer, MJ Lee
38 min ago
PUBLISHED May 21, 2026, 6:51 PM ET
Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen arrives to testify at a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on May 21 in Washington, DC.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant gave the House Oversight Committee three new names of alleged abusers in the convicted sex offender’s network — a revelation that committee chairman James Comer described as a promising lead in his panel’s investigation into Epstein’s misdeeds.
The assistant, Sarah Kellen, provided the names in a closed-door interview on Thursday, Comer said. He declined to name the individuals, but said they were not previously known and promised to release a transcript of Kellen’s interview as soon as possible.
“The new names, that’s what we’ve been waiting for,” Comer said, adding, “I’m more optimistic today than I have been a long time.”
Kellen is a polarizing figure in Epstein’s orbit whose work with the disgraced late financier gave her access to significant information on his activities. In 2007, she was labeled by law enforcement as one of Epstein’s potential co-conspirators, and many believe she helped him recruit and abuse girls. But she has described herself as a victim of Epstein’s abuse, and some observers acknowledge her experience is complicated, even if law enforcement did investigate her for possibly aiding Epstein.
Throughout hours of closed-door testimony on Thursday, Kellen said she was not Epstein’s co-conspirator and had no idea she was going to be named in Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement from the early 2000s. On the contrary, Kellen testified she “worked for and was sexually and psychologically abused by Jeffrey Epstein,” according to a copy of her opening remarks shared with CNN.
Kellen described in graphic detail some of the sexual abuse she says she endured.
“I want this Committee to know that the abuse happened on average on a weekly basis, and was at times violent,” Kellen said, according to the remarks. “It included Jeffrey entering my room in the middle of the night and putting his fingers inside me, waking me up from my sleep. It included an occasion in Palm Beach when he trapped me in the gym by lowering the metal hurricane shutter, blasted the music so loud that no one could hear, choked me, and violently raped me.”
Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury told reporters that she asked Kellen about her experience at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, where a state investigation is ongoing, and Kellen said that was one of the places she was abused by Epstein.
Kellen said that for years, it was simply not possible for her to leave Epstein’s powerful grip: “I had nowhere else to go. I had no money, no family, no education, and no sense that I deserved any better.”
Stansbury said she also asked Kellen if she believed Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell should have been moved to a lower security prison or if Maxwell should receive a presidential pardon. To both questions, Kellen said no, and even cast blame on Maxwell for some of Epstein’s wrongdoing, saying “Maxwell turned Epstein into the monster he became,” according to Stansbury.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) speaks to reporters before Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen testifies at a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday in Washington, DC.
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Comer said that the Justice Department did not interview Kellen until 2019, arguing that was an example that investigators had mishandled the Epstein case. CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
“More evidence emerges every time we bring somebody in that the government failed the victims. That’s the obvious,” Comer stated.
Comer said that after listening to her testimony, he believes Kellen was a victim of Epstein’s crimes, not a potential co-conspirator.
“Of all the people that we’ve interviewed thus far, this was by far the most substantive and productive interview that we’ve had. She was very brave coming forward. I can’t imagine how difficult it was for her to go into detail about the abuse that she endured at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell,” Comer said.
But others said they had more questions for Kellen. Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the panel should consider bringing Kellen back in for an interview under subpoena because there were a number of questions Kellen didn’t answer in the voluntary setting of Thursday’s interview.
“What I want to hear is more discussion about other actors, other entities, other women, who else were potential conspirators in this,” Krishnamoorthi said.
Another source familiar with Kellen’s testimony told CNN that while Kellen was willing to answer questions about her own abuse, she would not share any information about the abuse she knew others to have suffered.
And while Kellen said she never witnessed any inappropriate behavior by President Donald Trump, she testified that she believed that Epstein and Trump were once close given that Epstein had photographs of Trump hanging around all of Epstein’s properties, the source added.
Comer said that Kellen testified that Epstein used to go to Mar-a-Lago to workout, but Trump kicked him out because Epstein “hit on a members’ daughter or something.”
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