Epstein's Fixer Names Names: Hairstylist, Ex-Mayor Among Three Accused in Congress

For years, Sarah Kellen was described in court documents and federal filings as one of Jeffrey Epstein's primary operators — the woman who scheduled, arranged, and facilitated. Prosecutors gave her a non-prosecution agreement in 2007, a deal that let her walk while survivors were still waiting for justice. This week, she sat before the House Oversight Committee in closed-door testimony and, according to sources familiar with the session, finally pointed fingers — at three men by name, including allegations that she herself was a victim of sexual abuse.
The names that have since surfaced from that testimony include Philip Levine, the former mayor of Miami Beach; Frédéric Fekkai, the celebrity hairstylist with a clientele drawn from the apex of American wealth and culture; and a third individual whose identity had not been fully confirmed in public reporting at time of publication. Levine served as Miami Beach mayor from 2013 to 2017 and mounted a Democratic primary run for Florida governor in 2018. Fekkai built one of the most recognizable luxury hair brands in the country. Neither man has been charged with any crime. Both deny the allegations.
What makes Kellen's testimony notable — and structurally different from anything that came before — is the shift in her own posture. Federal non-prosecution agreements do not require cooperation, and for years Kellen did not offer it. She rebuilt her life, changed her name, and stayed out of the public record. Her appearance before Congress marks the first time, as far as the public record shows, that she has made accusations against specific individuals in any official proceeding. That is a meaningful evidentiary threshold, even if congressional testimony is not a criminal filing.
The House Oversight Committee, which has been conducting its own parallel investigation into the Epstein network since the Justice Department's handling of the original 2007 plea deal came back under scrutiny, has been calling in witnesses who previously stayed silent. The committee has subpoena power and can refer matters to the Justice Department, though it cannot itself bring charges. What it can do — and what this week's testimony appears to be doing — is build a public and institutional record that prosecutors and civil litigators can use.
The broader context here matters. Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement, which was drafted in secret and shielded named co-conspirators from federal prosecution, was later ruled by a federal judge to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act. That ruling did not void the agreement, but it established that the government had acted improperly. The question of who else knew what, and who else was protected by the architecture of that deal, has never been fully answered in any public proceeding.
Kellen's own legal status under the original NPA has been a source of ongoing tension. Survivors and their attorneys have long argued that she bore direct operational responsibility for recruiting and managing victims. The government's decision not to charge her remains contested. Her testimony this week, whatever its legal weight, does not resolve that tension — it reframes it. She is now simultaneously a named accuser and a person against whom serious allegations of complicity have been made for years.
The men she has named will face, at minimum, the court of public record. Levine has already denied the allegations. Fekkai's representatives have not responded to public inquiries at time of publication. The committee has not confirmed whether it intends to call either man to testify. Civil litigation is a separate matter entirely — several Epstein survivors have pursued and won civil judgments, and the legal infrastructure for additional suits remains active.
What this week established, in the plainest terms, is that the Epstein investigation is not closed. Congress is still pulling threads. Witnesses who were once silent are now speaking. And the names emerging from closed-door testimony — names of men with money, visibility, and access to the worlds Epstein moved through — suggest the full account of what happened in that network is still, years after his death, being written.
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