A woman named Sarah Kellen (also known in some reports as Sarah Kellen Vickers) is widely described in legal filings and media accounts as Maxwell’s principal assistant or “lieutenant.” She is alleged to have managed recruitment logistics, scheduled “appointments,” arranged travel between properties owned by Epstein and Maxwell, and served as a gatekeeper for young women entering that circle. For example, an Economic Times profile says Kellen “has long been described as one of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s closest lieutenants, playing a role that survivors say went far beyond that of an assistant.”


But while Kellen is regularly labelled as the lieutenant, her status remains strikingly unsettled from a criminal-justice perspective: despite repeated naming in civil suits, depositions and media coverage, she has not been criminally charged (at least publicly) to the same extent as Maxwell. That gap raises major questions: either law-enforcement chose not to pursue her, or the evidence against her has been insufficient (or suppressed) for prosecution. As one commentary in The Telegraph put it, “The name Sarah Kellen came up time and time again … yet she is still walking free.”


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