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The Four Named:
the case that was written and never brought

By May 2007 federal prosecutors had an 82-page prosecution memorandum and a 53-page sealed indictment referencing nineteen victims, all minors. Four months later the same office signed an agreement promising not to charge “any potential co-conspirators” — naming four women explicitly, and requiring nothing from any of them in return. Nineteen years later, none has been charged and the indictment is still sealed.

Named in the NPA
4
DOJ-identified
8 · 4 redacted
Sealed indictment
53 pages
Prosecution memo
82 pages · 19 minor victims
Charged
None
This file is open

None of the four women named here has ever been charged with any offence, and each is entitled to the presumption of innocence. One has said through counsel that she was herself a victim, and four further co-conspirators identified by the DOJ remain redacted — reportedly in part because they were victims cooperating with investigators. This page documents what the government wrote down about them and then agreed never to use.

The Finding
The evidence existed. A prosecutor had written the indictment. Then the government promised, in writing, never to bring it.
By May 2007 federal prosecutors had an 82-page prosecution memorandum and a 53-page sealed indictment referencing 19 victims, all minors. Four months later the same office signed an agreement stating it would not charge “any potential co-conspirators… including but not limited to” four named women. They walk free not because the evidence was insufficient, but because the government undertook never to use it.

The distinction that makes this page necessary. Most non-prosecution is a judgement that a case cannot be proved. This was the opposite — a case that had been prepared, drafted and readied for a grand jury, then traded away.

What the clause actually said. Paragraph 5 of the 2007 agreement bound the United States not to charge “any potential co-conspirators of Epstein” — open-ended language, with four names offered only as examples.

Nothing was required in return. None of the four was obliged to cooperate, testify, or admit anything. The immunity was unconditional.

There are eight, not four. A 2019 DOJ document identified eight co-conspirators. The four below were named publicly; four remain redacted, reportedly in part because they were victims who had cooperated — which is itself a measure of how entangled the categories are in this case.

Why it still matters in 2026. The indictment has never been unsealed and the prosecution memorandum has never been released in full. The most complete account the government ever assembled of who did what is sitting in a file nobody can read.

The survivors’ file documents the litigation that followed — including the finding that victims were never told the deal was being made.

What Was Traded

Prepared: an 82-page prosecution memo and a 53-page sealed indictment, referencing 19 minor victims.

Given: blanket federal immunity to every co-conspirator, four named explicitly.

Required in exchange: nothing.

Charged since: none of them, in nineteen years.

The NPA as a political act →

Section 01

The Four Named

Named in Paragraph 5 of the 2007 agreement. Allegations against them come from victim accounts, depositions and prosecutorial assertions in civil filings — not from any jury verdict, because no case against any of them was ever brought.

Sarah KellenScheduler
Now Sarah Kellen Vickers

Identified in court documents as one of Epstein’s primary schedulers. Victims described her as the person who scheduled their visits to the Palm Beach mansion and the New York townhouse. Accused of running a “Rolodex” of women and girls she would arrange to visit him.

Named as a defendant in the 53-page sealed indictment. An FBI organisational chart records another woman admitting during a proffer that she was trained by Kellen to schedule Palm Beach appointments.

Married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and changed her name. Never charged.
Nadia MarcinkovaPilot
Now Nadia Marcinko

Described in lawsuits as Epstein’s “traveling companion,” alleged to have participated in sex acts with minors. Visited Epstein dozens of times during his Florida jail sentence.

Her attorneys have said she was herself a victim — brought to the United States as a teenager. She invoked the Fifth Amendment in depositions.

Became an aviation professional. Never charged.
Adriana RossAssistant
Adriana Mucinska

A Polish former model who worked at the Palm Beach mansion in the early 2000s. Appears frequently in the flight logs.

Epstein’s butler Janusz Banasiak testified: “I get a phone call from Sarah or Adriana and they mention name that such a girl show up at the house and I should give them money.” In 2005 she was allegedly instructed to help remove computers from the mansion in the weeks before police executed a search warrant — corroborated by Banasiak in deposition.

Largely out of public view. She invoked the Fifth Amendment. Never charged.
Lesley GroffScheduler
Executive assistant

Epstein’s executive assistant for nearly twenty years. Managed his schedule and facilitated travel arrangements for young women.

Her attorney stated she was never notified of her co-conspirator status, and that she had cooperated with prosecutors.

Never charged.

Section 02

How It Happened

May 2007
The case was ready

A federal prosecutor in West Palm Beach had completed an 82-page prosecution memorandum and a 53-page sealed indictment. The indictment identified specific overt acts by Epstein’s co-conspirators and referenced 19 victims, all minors. It was ready for the grand jury.

24 Sep 2007
Paragraph 5

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida signs the Non-Prosecution Agreement. It states the government “will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova.” None was required to cooperate in exchange.

2008–2019
Silence

The four are named in civil litigation and depositions. Several invoke the Fifth Amendment. No federal charges follow.

2019
Eight, not four

A DOJ document identifies eight individuals as co-conspirators. Four are the names above. Four remain redacted — reportedly in part because they were victims cooperating with investigators.

Jul 2020
Reopened, briefly

After Maxwell’s arrest by the SDNY — which has said it is not bound by the Florida agreement — the Sunday Telegraph reports authorities are examining the four with a view to bringing charges. None followed.

2021–2022
The clause cited back

Maxwell’s defence invokes the same NPA co-conspirator clause to argue she should also be protected. The court rejects it. She is convicted and sentenced to 20 years.

2026
Still sealed

The 53-page indictment remains sealed. The 82-page prosecution memorandum has never been released in full.

Section 03

Where the Categories Blur

This is the part of the subject that resists a clean telling, and it should not be smoothed over.

Nadia Marcinkova’s attorneys have said she was herself a victim — brought to the United States as a teenager. If that is accurate, she was a child in Epstein’s control before she was anything else. Both things can be true, and the criminal law is poorly built for it.

Four of the eight DOJ-identified co-conspirators are redacted, reportedly in part because they were victims cooperating with investigators. The government itself, in the same document, treated some people as both.

The pattern this reflects is well documented in trafficking generally: victims are frequently made to recruit, and the recruitment is part of the coercion rather than evidence of its absence.

None of which resolves the question for any individual — and that is the point. The mechanism that would have resolved it was a trial, and the agreement guaranteed there would not be one.

What this page does not do. It does not assert that any of the four is guilty, nor that any is innocent. It records that the government wrote down what it believed they had done, prepared to charge one of them by name, and then agreed in writing never to proceed — without requiring anything at all in return.

Held Carefully

Not established: the guilt of any of the four. No charge, no trial, no verdict.

Documented: that prosecutors named them, that a sealed indictment named Kellen as a defendant, and that the immunity was unconditional.

Also documented: that at least one has claimed victim status through counsel, and that the DOJ redacted four further names partly on victim grounds.

Both halves belong in the record.

Section 04

Open Questions

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Who are the other four?
A 2019 DOJ document identified eight co-conspirators. Four names remain redacted and have never been made public.
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What is in the sealed indictment?
53 pages, naming Kellen as a defendant and identifying overt acts by co-conspirators. It has never been unsealed.
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Why did the 2020 review produce nothing?
After Maxwell’s arrest, authorities were reported to be examining the four with a view to charges. No charges followed and no explanation was published.
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Does the NPA bind other districts?
The SDNY has said it is not bound by the Florida agreement — and prosecuted Maxwell on that basis. Why the same reasoning was not applied to the four has never been explained.
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Who negotiated Paragraph 5?
The clause immunised an open-ended class of people. Whose idea it was, and what was given for it, has not been established.
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Were the victims told?
Later litigation under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act found they were not notified. The remedy for that finding remains unresolved.

Section 05

Sources

Primary document

The Non-Prosecution Agreement

Paragraph 5 — the clause immunising “any potential co-conspirators… including but not limited to” the four named women.

justice.gov/epstein ↗
Investigation

The Four Names

March 2026. The 82-page memo, the 53-page sealed indictment, the 19 minor victims, and the FBI organisational chart.

theepsteincrimes.com →
Fact check

The 2007 Unindicted Co-Conspirators

What the record establishes about the four, and the distinction between accusers’ accounts and jury findings.

factually.co →
The Sunday Telegraph

The Recruiters and Groomers

July 2020. Authorities examining the four after Maxwell’s arrest, with a view to bringing charges.

pressreader.com →
Reference

Named, Charged & Granted Immunity

The eight DOJ-identified co-conspirators, and why four remain redacted.

epsteingpt.org →
Synthesis

The United States

Seven American institutions that could have stopped it — and the one person imprisoned.

Read the report →
Companion report

The Redactions

The DOJ blacked out fourteen beneficiaries — and exposed the survivors in the same release.

Read the report →
Companion report

The Children

Fifteen girls from one high school. One school was a middle school. The youngest were fourteen.

Read the report →
Companion report

The Staff

The butler took the black book and got 18 months. Epstein served 13.

Read the report →
Companion report

Who Actually Flew

The passenger frequency — and why almost no celebrities appear near the top.

Read the report →
Companion report

What Impunity Teaches

$850 million paid, nobody charged for enabling him — and the operating rule that left behind.

Read the report →
Cross-reference

Alexander Acosta

The US Attorney who signed it — Paragraph 5, the Kirkland connection, and “poor judgment.”

Read the profile →
Cross-reference

Virginia Giuffre

The survivor whose litigation produced the record — and whose memoir cost a prince his titles.

Read the profile →
Cross-reference

The Survivors

The testimony, the CVRA litigation, and the finding that victims were never told.

Read the report →
Cross-reference

Ghislaine Maxwell

The only person imprisoned — and the defence that cited this same clause.

Read the profile →
Cross-reference

Access to Power

The NPA as a political act, and Alexander Acosta’s role.

Read the report →