NOTORIOUS paedophile Jeffrey Epstein surrounded himself with a circle of high-profile celebrities, politicians and businessmen.
The bombshell court files released last week mentioned dozens of them, but it is Epstein‘s tightest inner sanctum that has received the most scrutiny.
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Tim StewartFormer pilot of Epstein’s ‘Lolita jet’ Nadia Marcinkova[/caption]
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Ghislaine Maxwell with Epstein’s former assistant Sarah KellenSplash
Only one member of his inner circle has ever been convicted of being involved in his depraved sexual crimes – his ex-lover and madame Ghislaine Maxwell.
The British-born socialite is currently serving 20 years in prison for her role in trafficking underage women for Epstein.
The unsealed court documents first released last week have reignited public interest in women who court papers indicate may have played some role, but have largely dropped off the map since Epstein’s conviction and suicide in 2019.
The files are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
Details of the lurid sex allegations made against convicted paedophile Epstein and Maxwell are frequent, as are shocking claims about Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and Donald Trump – which all men deny.
Complicating matters further, several of the implicated women also claim to be victims of Epstein’s vile abuse and victims of exploitation themselves.
Authorities were reportedly investigating the alleged role played by Sarah Kellen, alongside Nadia Marcinkova, Lesley Groff and Adriana Ross in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring in 2020.
Allegations were previously made against the women known to be close to him – accusing them of being “recruiters, groomers, sexual partners and friends.”
They would allegedly receive huge salaries and perks in return according to the investigation by the Telegraph.
The four women were at one point granted immunity from prosecution, no charges appear to have been brought against them and they have denied the allegations of wrongdoing.
Sarah Kellen, former assistant
Sarah Kellen, Epstein’s former assistant, was named over 100 times in the files unsealed last week.
In Exhibit A, page 57 of the files released on Wednesday evening, Maxwell’s deposition claimed she had “no idea what Sarah Kellen did”.
In the same documents as part of Epstein’s former butler Alfredo Rodriguez’ 2009 deposition, Kellen is mentioned again.
Rodriguez describes himself as a “human ATM machine”, carrying “cash at all times” to “pay the girls” who came over to give Epstein massages.
He told the court that Sarah Kellen would tell him who to pay: “Sarah told me pay so and so”.
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A motion filed by Guiffre’s legal team also asked for Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova to be subpoenaed along with Epstein.
The motion on page 112 reads: “The three persons to be subpoenaed – Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova – were each involved in the sexual abuse and sexual trafficking at issue in this case.”
Neither Kellen nor Marcinkova were ever charged with any involvement.
Guiffre alleged in her depositions that both women played “key roles” in the sex trafficking organisation.
Kellen, 44, apparently spent recent weeks “quietly waiting” for the Epstein Files to be released to see if her name would be mentioned among countless others.
One unverified source described her as having had a “front-row seat to the debauchery”, although she has never accepted the allegations made against her.
They said: “What she knows would shock the world”, according to the Messenger.
Previously leaked flight logs from Epstein’s private jet dubbed the “Lolita express” saw her name pop up 350 times, with only Maxwell and the shamed financier himself topping her.
Pictures taken after Kellen started working for Epstein in the early 2000s show her with both him and Maxwell, images later shown in court.
Now reportedly hidden away in a Miami Beach “fortress” with her husband, former NASCAR driver Brian Vickers.
The couple’s luxury house is apparently fitted with private entrances and they have “enjoyed basic anonymity and privacy and freedom for many years”.
The source also said that Kellen claimed she was one of Epstein’s victims.
The now 44-year-old mum has apparently kept what she knows under wraps, hoping her information might provide a “get out of jail free card” if she’s ever in need.
“It’s more valuable for her to hold onto the information should she need it to stay free,” the source said.
Sarah Ransome, a British victim of Epstein aged 22 at the time, previously claimed in unsealed court files: “When Jeffrey wanted me, you know, Sarah Kellen or Ghislaine would call me into his bedroom, and I had no choice but to go”.
“Sarah Kellen knew for every girl that she organised to go on that island (Little Saint James in the US Virgin Islands) or to be picked up by a car to go to the New York mansion, she knew that these girls were there to be abused repeatedly.”
Testimony from Epstein’s former housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez
A motion detailing subpoenas for Kellen and Marcinkova
Nadia Marcinko, pilot of ‘Lolita Express’
Ex-model Nadia Marcinkova – is thought to have flown Epstein’s notorious Lolita Express jet and now runs her own aviation company.
She was at one point alleged to have acted as the shamed financier’s former “squeeze” and another one of his “recruiters.”
According to police files from a 2005 Palm Beach inquiry, Epstein once dubbed her his “sex slave” that he had bought and dragged away from her home in Yugoslavia aged 15.
It’s been claimed Epstein would pay girls to have sex with her while he watched and took photos to hang on his walls.
And the Miami Herald reported in 2018 that she had visited Epstein “more than 70 times when he was in Palm Beach custody” following the criminal conviction.
But Marcinkova has not accepted the allegations made against her and has also claimed she was one of his many victims.
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Nadia Marcinkova (left) with Sarah Kellen (right)
In Exhibit A, page 40, Maxwell tells the court that she remembers meeting Nadia Marcinkova and described her as ” a friend of Jeffrey’s”.
The files also state that Marcinkova was named with Kellen “among four named ‘potential co conspirators of Epstein’” in court docs related to Epstein’s guilty plea to solicitation in Florida in 2008.
Page 115 of Wednesday’s files described Kellen and Marcinkova as “evading service” when they were repeatedly served subpoenas to be questioned in court.
When they were questioned about Epstein’s crimes with underage girls, they both used their fifth amendment rights.
She was reportedly around 19 when first pictured with Epstein.
Snaps show them sitting at a table together with Epstein in a dressing gown.
And she appears in another picture, arms linked with Sarah Kellen.
Maxwell’s testimony mentioning Marcinkova
Court files claimed Marcinkova and Kellen had been evading subpoenas
Testimony from Kellen and Marcinkova where they plead the fifth
Lesley Groff, assistant
Less is known about Lesley Groff, another woman caught up in Epstein’s world who worked as his executive assistant for 20 years.
In 2005, she apparently boasted that the pair were so close she could “know what he is thinking”.
Epstein’s victims have described her as one of his “schedulers” at the New York mansion, although she has denied this.
One victim, Jennifer Araoz, claimed Epstein raped and abuse her from age 14 – with Ms Groff scheduling the “massages” where this abuse took place.
Groff’s lawyers reportedly said investigations into her by prosecutors for the past two years have not led to any charges.
She also denied having anything to do with Epstein’s sexual crimes via a lawyer in 2019.
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Adriana Ross, former associate
Former Polish model Adriana Ross has also been accused of helping to organise Epstein’s massages.
And Ross, like Kellen and Marcinkova, has remained silent when questioned about the crimes committed.
Last week’s newly unsealed files show her refusing to answer questions involving Bill Clinton laid out in court as part of a deposition for one of Epstein’s accusers.
The 2010 testimony shows her invoking her 5th Amendment right not to answer in court so as to avoid self-incrimination.
Ross was also named as a “possible co-conspirator” in court docs related to Epstein’s guilty plea to solicitation in Florida in 2008.
She has never been charged with a crime.
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Ghislaine Maxwell
Prosecutors described Maxwell as having “preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them and served them up to be sexually abused by Epstein”.
The on-off couple met after the socialite spent years rubbing shoulders with rich and powerful people, through a mutual friend in 1991.
Countless pictures, testimony and evidence depicts the close relationship shared between them in the years that followed.
It was that tight and evidently twisted bond that led Maxwell to traffic underage girls for Epstein to abuse.
Maxwell and Epstein dated on and off over the yearsThe Mega Agency
Countless pictures dragged up in court show them cosying up to each otherThe Mega Agency
ReutersMaxwell at court for her sentencing hearing in June 2022[/caption]