Happy Valentines Buddy: The NASCAR Driver, The Sex Scheduler, and 100+ DOJ Documents
- Patrick Duggan
- Feb 24
- 3 min read
# Happy Valentines Buddy: The NASCAR Driver, The Sex Scheduler, and 100+ DOJ Documents
When we built an AI face detection pipeline and ran it across 13,000 House Oversight Committee images from the Epstein files, we expected to find the usual suspects. Jeffrey Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell. Alan Dershowitz. Donald Trump.
We didn't expect to find a NASCAR driver in an Aaron's racing suit.
Google Vision identified the face as "Nick Reiner" — a false positive. The racing suit told us what the algorithm couldn't: this is **Brian Vickers**, 2003 NASCAR Busch Series champion, driver of the #55 Aaron's Toyota Camry for Michael Waltrip Racing.
Why is a NASCAR driver in the Epstein files?
Because he married **Sarah Kellen**.
Who is Sarah Kellen?
Sarah Kellen was Jeffrey Epstein's alleged **"sex scheduler."** According to Palm Beach Police, she maintained the book of names of underage girls who were directed to give Epstein "massages" that turned sexual at his Palm Beach estate.
She was named as an **unindicted co-conspirator** in Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement — the same sweetheart deal brokered by Alexander Acosta that let Epstein plead to state charges and serve 13 months with work release.
At Ghislaine Maxwell's 2022 sentencing, a federal judge described Kellen as **"criminally responsible"** for her role in the trafficking operation.
She was never charged with a crime.
She used the alias "Kensington" for a period. Then, in 2013, she married Brian Vickers.
The Documents
Our search engine indexes every document released under the DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act. Brian Vickers appears in **over 100 of them**.
Here's what the government's own files show:
The Valentine's Day Email
On February 14, 2019 — six months after the Miami Herald's explosive "Perversion of Justice" series, five months before Epstein's arrest in New York — Brian Vickers sent Jeffrey Epstein a Valentine's Day email:
> **Subject**: Thought you would like this
>
> **Message**: Happy Valentines Buddy 😉
This wasn't a man distancing himself from a convicted sex offender after worldwide media scrutiny. This was "Buddy."
The Sponsorship Protection
In 2013, Epstein emailed about the general manager of Michael Waltrip Racing reaching out, concerned that Aaron's — Vickers' primary NASCAR sponsor — might "get spooked" about Kellen's Epstein connection.
Think about what this means: **Jeffrey Epstein was actively managing the reputational fallout of his crimes to protect the NASCAR career of the man who married his alleged sex scheduler.**
The Financial Records
The DOJ release includes Fifth Third Bank mortgage documents for Brian Vickers at **329 Seabreeze Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480** — in the same Palm Beach neighborhood as Epstein's estate where the trafficking allegedly occurred.
Bank deposit tickets for **"Vickers Investments LLC"** at 27 High Tech Blvd, Thomasville, NC appear across multiple documents.
The Source Photo
The face our AI detected comes from a specific exhibit: the full text of Julie K. Brown's landmark Miami Herald investigation, "Even from jail, Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system" (November 28, 2018), filed as an exhibit in Case 1:19-cv-03377.
The photo caption reads:
> "NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and his wife, Sarah, take part in pre-race ceremonies in Sparta, Ky., on June 28, 2014. She was known as Sarah Kellen when she was an aide to Jeffrey Epstein."
The House Oversight Committee included this article — twice — in their document production. Documents 017816 and 017979 are duplicate pages from the same exhibit.
The Divorce
On December 18, 2025, Brian Vickers and Sarah Kellen finalized their divorce after 12 years of marriage.
In the settlement, Sarah Kellen received a **massage table** and Israeli artifacts.
Vickers paid $620,000.
The massage table detail writes itself.
What the Government Released
Every document cited here was released by the Department of Justice under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Every financial record, every email, every exhibit — these are the government's own files, released through their own process, made searchable by our platform.
Brian Vickers sent "Happy Valentines Buddy" with a winking emoji to a convicted sex offender whose alleged sex scheduler he married. Epstein personally intervened to protect Vickers' NASCAR sponsorship. The mortgage documents place them in the same Palm Beach neighborhood.
The government knew all of this. They released all of this. Sarah Kellen was never charged.
Search It Yourself
Every document referenced in this article is searchable at [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com). Search "Vickers" — you'll find over 100 hits. Search "Kellen" — you'll find hundreds more.
329,000+ DOJ documents. All government-released. All searchable. The government's own narrative, made searchable, indicts the government.
*This investigation was conducted using an AI-powered face detection and identification pipeline built by DugganUSA. MediaPipe BlazeFace detected faces across 13,000 House Oversight Committee images. Google Cloud Vision identified the individuals. The false positive that led us to "Nick Reiner" actually uncovered one of the most documented relationships in the Epstein files.*
*Brian Vickers. Sarah Kellen. Happy Valentines Buddy.*
*Her name was Renee Nicole Good.*
*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*