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Warrants Were Prepared to Arrest Others in Millionaire Sex Scandal
July 28, 2006 12:24 PM
Palm Beach police were planning to arrest two women in connection with their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier who has been charged with solicitation, though police say he also engaged in illegal sexual activity with minors.
According to police investigative documents obtained by ABC News, police prepared and submitted arrest warrant requests in May for Sarah Kellen, Epstein's assistant, standing on the right side of the picture, and Haley Robson, pictured in the middle, who police say was paid by Epstein to bring over young and underage girls to his house to massage Epstein.
Kellen was to be arrested as a principal in the first degree on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors and as a principal in the first degree on one count of lewd and lascivious molestation. Robson's warrant was for lewd and lascivious acts on a victim under 16 years of age.
According to police documents, some of the girls who massaged Epstein claimed that his assistant, Kellen, would often prepare the massage table and arrange the oils before Epstein's massages. Kellen would also allegedly call the girls when Epstein was in town to see if they wanted "work." One girl told police, "Work is the term used by Sarah to provide the massage in underwear," according to police documents.
One girl also claimed that Kellen had attempted to reach her after the girl had been interviewed by police to talk about the questioning, according to police documents.
Kellen did not return a call seeking comment.
Robson was interviewed by police in October 2005, and police say she admitted she brought six girls, ages 14 to 16, to Epstein's house to massage him. Robson was paid $200 each time she brought a girl over, according to her statement to police.
Police say Robson told them she wished to assist in their investigation in hopes of receiving a lesser charge. Police say that as Robson was being driven home from questioning, she remarked, "I'm like a Heidi Fliess."
Another woman involved in the scandal was Epstein's girlfriend Nadia Marcinkova, standing to the left in the above picture. Though the documents do not mention that any charges were being sought against Marcinkova, one girl, who began massaging Epstein when she was 16-years-old, told police that she was paid by Epstein to have sex with Marcinkova as he watched. The girl also told police that "Epstein bragged he brought her [Marcinkova] into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave," according to the documents.
Attempts to contact Marcinkova and Robson have not been successful.
The warrants for Kellen and Robson were submitted to the state attorney's office on May 4. A week later, no arrests had taken place. One police detective noted in the documents that he asked the assistant state attorney to take action.
"I asked that she either issue the warrants or direct file, as so much time has elapsed since the original request to the Grand Jury," he noted. "I explained that the Palm Beach Police Department had concluded the case in December of 2005 and has been waiting for the case to go forward."
About six weeks later, after the state attorney's office had conducted their own additional investigation into the matter, State Attorney Barry Krischer decided to send the case to the grand jury.
Earlier this week the grand jury indicted Epstein for solicitation of a prostitute. No charges were brought against Kellen or Robson. The case is now closed as far as the state attorney's office is concerned. The police, meanwhile, have tuned the matter over to the FBI.
Click here to read ABC News' full coverage on the Millionaire Sex Scandal.
July 28, 2006 in Millionaire Sex Scandal | Permalink | User Comments (7)
No doubt same double standard applies here as it does with the female teacher pedophiles we have seen in news lately, we seem too have gone too far in thinking women cannot committ crimes of sexual nature, no one male or female is immune too sin or criminal acts and if justice is truly fair and blind as our symbol states in most court houses, then no distinction should be made in punishment..!
Posted by: RH | Jul 28, 2006 3:56:48 PM
Wow..at least the first comment wasn't some moronic political reference. This guy is obviously sick and needs to be punished...unfortunately I'm afraid his money might mean he gets off with a slap on the wrist
Posted by: Andrew Hanks | Jul 28, 2006 4:22:12 PM
This too shall quietly pass away and then we'll get back to worrying about more important things like, "Cholesterol".
Posted by: FlimFlamMan | Jul 29, 2006 10:53:31 AM
Has anyone else noticed that when it comes to the lame and insignificant against the serious backdrop of what's happening in the world that ABC's Blotter will deliver it?
Counting the comments as a measure of interest in this fluff(always with the Republican take down agenda), ABC isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: penny | Jul 29, 2006 10:57:36 PM
Can you imagine if Epstein was associated with Bush? The drive by media would be out of control with headline news bulletins. He would have been tarred, feathered and jailed with no bond, branded a sexual predator maximus. So forgive me if I speak with political overtones.
Posted by: Meenghia | Jul 30, 2006 2:16:23 PM
Just because he has money should be no excuse for him to recieve a slap on the wrist! If it was anyone else they would receive the full blown punishment and so should he! To who wrote, as for this shall to quietly pass, why bother to comment if you have nothing more to say other than being outragouisly crude and ignore the fact this is happening everywhere, every day in every country!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mindy | Jul 31, 2006 5:15:57 PM
That's just the point of my last post. With all his money and influence on people in high places he will walk. There's little we can do. Just as you said "Just because he has money should be no excuse for him to receive a slap on the wrist"! I can hear the slap as we speak. So we all are outraged by the outcome of this case but it's difficult to change our cultural direction affected by money, drugs, political ties, and the moral decay around us. Not to be overly pessimistic but were in a downhill slide
Posted by: FlimFlamMan | Aug 1, 2006 12:54:23 PM
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