The House Oversight Committee on Thursday released the transcript of its interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s former personal assistant and called on the Justice Department to investigate sexual assault allegations she made against a former politician and celebrity hairstylist.
Sarah Kellen, who worked as an assistant for Epstein for more than a decade beginning in 2001, testified before the committee late last month about the late convicted sex offender’s network of co-conspirators. According to the transcript, Kellen alleged that she was sexually assaulted by both Philip Levine, the former mayor of Miami and a Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and French celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai. She said Fekkai abused her in a hotel room in Maui, “when he asked me to come be in a hair show that didn’t exist,” and that Levine abused her in a house in Saint-Tropez. She told the committee she was unsure if either man abused anyone else.
Kellen alleged that Fekkai introduced her to Epstein.
Representatives for Levine and Fekkai have not responded requests for comment from MS NOW.
In a letter committee chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and other committee leaders wrote to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche relaying the allegations, they note that Levine’s name appears more than 600 times in the Epstein files and that Epstein sent the girls he abused, and staffers, to Fekkai’s salons. The letter asks the department to “use all available tools, including immunity for certain witnesses, to investigate the allegations against, and any other criminal conduct committed by” the men.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MS NOW on Thursday morning.
The letter to Blanche also notes that the committee “seeks to understand why Ms. Kellen was not interviewed or otherwise contacted” from when she began working for Epstein in 2001 until he was arrested in July 2019.