A woman abused for more than a decade by Jeffrey Epstein has said she had dinner with the former Prince Andrew and attended Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party in Windsor.
Sarah Kellen told the US House Oversight Committee, which is conducting a congressional investigation into Epstein, that she also had dinner with the paedophile financier at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s private apartments in Buckingham Palace.
Her testimony marked the first time a woman sexually abused by Epstein has publicly spoken about attending royal residences.
She spoke about the “horrific abuse she endured for years” involving Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working for the pair, the committee’s Republican chair, James Comer, said.
In the newly released transcripts from the testimony, Ms Kellen told the committee: “I was at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle and at the desert home of Sheikh Mohammed in Dubai. I sat across the table from Ehud Barak in Israel.”
Later in the testimony, she said they “went to Andrew’s private apartment at Buckingham Palace for dinner”.
Ms Kellen said she witnessed “no inappropriate behaviour” from the disgraced royal. He has always consistently and vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
The former Duke of York was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in a public office following allegations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein.
It was revealed last month that Thames Valley Police is also investigating Mr Mountbatten-Windsor for allegations of sexual misconduct in their inquiry into potential misconduct in public office.
Ms Kellen also recalled meeting Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump, but did not accuse any of those men of wrongdoing.
About Epstein’s powerful connections, she told the committee: “Jeffrey was able to fool and manipulate the brightest minds in the world. Us victims did not stand a chance. I was a high school dropout from North Carolina. I was a silent body in a chair beside men who started and ended wars.
“I understood completely that if Jeffrey could walk into those rooms, he could walk into any room in the entire world. He could find me anywhere on Earth.”
Ms Kellen was among four potential co-conspirators named in Epstein’s 2007 controversial “non-prosecution agreement” that helped him evade more serious criminal charges in Florida.
She has denied wrongdoing in connection with the case. In her opening statement to the committee, she said Epstein had sexually and psychologically abused her for more than a decade.
“I was trapped inside Jeffrey Epstein’s world,” she said. “He groomed me, sexually and psychologically abused me, controlled me, manipulated me, dominated me, and gaslit me until I could no longer tell which thoughts were mine and which were his.”
She said she was never contacted by any federal, state, local or foreign law enforcement agency from the time she began working for Epstein in the early 2000s until July 2019, after which she spoke to federal prosecutors in New York.
Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.
A spokesperson said in a previous statement: “Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”
Representatives for Mr Mountbatten-Windsor and Princess Beatrice have also been contacted for comment.
