Epsteins personal assistant says he violently raped her and even abused her behind bars

A personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein has testified that she was “violently raped” by the notorious pedophile — and that he even managed to abuse her via Skype while he was serving time for sex crimes.Sarah Kellen – who was known as Epstein’s “lieutenant” and even named as a potential co-conspirator in his 2007 sweetheart federal non-prosecution deal – now says she was actually a victim “trapped inside Jeffrey Epstein’s world” for more than 20 years.“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,” Kellen, now 46, told the House Oversight Committee last month, according to a transcript released Friday.“It was like living with a permanent virtual-reality headset on.”Kellen, who said she was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness where women “were required to submit to and obey men,” testified that she first stripped for Epstein when he tricked her into thinking she was being considered for a potential breakthrough gig as an underwear model.“I had just got into my bra and underwear, and that seemed logical since it was a Victoria’s Secret casting, and I remember just like doing a little turn, turning around so he could see my body,” she recalled.She eventually started working, initially unpaid, as an assistant for Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was “mean and belittling” — but equally scared of the terrifying “Jekyll and Hyde” pedophile, Kellen claimed.“I would witness him bring Ghislaine to tears, who I thought was the strongest, coldest woman I had met,” she said.Kellen claimed that “after months of unpaid labor, Epstein instructed me to draw him a bath on [his private] island, then ordered me to undress and get in with him.And he said, ‘The job is yours.’”“Only after Jeffrey confirmed that I would submit to his sexual abuse did he begin paying me,” she ...