‘Sara Kensington’ – very regal new name for girl in Epstein sex case
A BEAUTIFUL blonde who allegedly recruited schoolgirls for sexual encounters with a paedophile friend of Prince Andrew has been ‘rewarded’ with a lavish jet-set lifestyle, complete with a new identity.
According to legal documents, Sarah Kellen, 31, managed a harem of under-age ‘sex slaves’ at a Palm Beach mansion in Florida where the Duke of York was treated to massages by Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier who is under investigation by the FBI for alleged sex-trafficking.
As revealed by our photograph, however, Kellen is now moving in rather more elite circles . . . after dyeing her hair brown and adopting a false name.
As Sara Kensington, she has become a fixture on the US social scene, buying tickets to charity parties, dating a scion of a railroad dynasty and driving a vintage open-top sports car.
Using two other aliases – Sarah Lynnelle and Sara Bonk (her mother’s maiden name, rather than any admission of guilt) – to cover her tracks, she divides her time between Epstein’s Florida villa and New York. She shares a luxury flat in the city with Epstein’s 29-year-old personal assistant, Story Cowles, whose mother is married to the heir to a railroad fortune. The flat is registered to an Epstein relative.
Kellen was named as Epstein’s co-conspirator in a 2005 police investigation into the 58-year-old tycoon’s ‘erotic massages’ by under-age girls. She was granted immunity from prosecution after he used his political connections to strike a controversial pleabargain deal under which he served just 13 months in jail.
Kellen and Cowles visited him regularly, according to prison logs reviewed by The Mail on Sunday. Cowles described himself at the time as a ‘paralegal’. After Epstein was released, Cowles, who has an arrest record himself for careless driving and possession of marijuana, described himself as Epstein’s ‘personal assistant’.
In an interview during subsequent civil proceedings, Kellen was asked if the Prince had sexual contact with girls whom Epstein employed as ‘masseuses’. She refused to answer, citing her constitutional right to remain silent.
Legal experts say she is potentially a key witness in the new FBI inquiry into Epstein. It was launched after one of his former employees, Virginia Roberts, told this newspaper that he required her to have sex with his friends and flew her to London for the first of what she says were three meetings with Andrew.