Groff worked for Epstein for 18 years, from 2001 until his arrest in July 2019. No criminal charges have ever been brought against her (or anyone else connected to Epstein, apart from Maxwell). Since Epstein’s death, in August 2019, Groff has remained almost invisible and spoken only through her lawyers. Recent photographs have shown her going to pilates or walking her dog near her home in Connecticut, off-duty and low-key. Compared to the royals, politicians, billionaires and professors who have featured in the Epstein files, Groff is low status – a non-celebrity with no public reputation to lose. But when you search for her name in the files, you receive more than 160,000 results, more than anyone else. (I have read perhaps 10,000 of these, a fraction.) No one was more regularly in contact with Epstein, day-to-day.
After the release of the Epstein files, the US Congress’s committee on oversight and government reform decided to review the possible mismanagement of the federal government’s investigation into Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes. On 3 March 2026, they sent a letter to Groff asking her to attend an interview in Washington on 9 June: “The Committee believes you have information that will assist in its investigation.” They believe, in other words, that Groff knows more than she has ever said she knows.
There’s no way she didn’t know.
Many people don’t think about the implications or consequences of their actions or decisions. It could be making a decision about a mine that poisons the water of a community or birth defects, it could be supplying arms to a genocidal terrorist “I didn’t do it. I just supplied the weapons. How could I have known” etc.
She was making three times a reasonable salary for her retail experience and she knew it and simply looked the other way or compartmentalised it
I agree. Also, in the article there’s a bit about how her husband emailed her about a Page Six article regarding the survivors, and she replied:
4 June 2014, DOJ Epstein Library
From: Ike Groff
To: Lesley Groff
https://pagesix.com/2014/06/04/accusers-bid-to-reopen-epstein-sex-abuse-case/From: Lesley Groff
To: Ike Groff
Oh man. I knew down thing [sic] was going on but I did not know what. This could be badYeah, she knew. One of the reasons I posted this article was because of how well sourced it is, and they included a lot of links. Once you start following those out, it’s impossible to think she didn’t know. And not only knew, but knowingly worked to keep it all going.
This isn’t in the Guardian article, but I saw a random substack talking about how Groff arranged bikini line hair removal for a girl or woman at Epstein’s request: generally speaking, executive assistants do not arrange bikini line hair removal for professional masseuses.
The files – and the survivor lawsuits – are full of little details like that, millions of little things that all say she knew exactly what was going on. Groff was, for instance, one of the people directly arranging these so-called “massages” with these girls, and juggling the demands of middle-school and high school schedules with those students’ availability for massages: the files are full of her telephone notes of exactly that.
This gets lost in the avalanche, but holup: what adult thinks it’s a grand idea to schedule a middle-school girl to come give a middle-aged man a massage in the first place? Lesley Groff clearly thought so, because she did exactly that thousands of times, day in and day out, calling girls and working around their band practice and volleyball tournaments and school trips and everything else that goes with school at that age to get Epstein his massages from underage girls.
I don’t remember off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure Lesley Groff was also one of the people to whom the FBI made a proffer. It’s redacted in this version (see page 11) but since then a number of the blacked out names have become public, like that of Leon Black, and I could swear Lesley Groff is among them, as are other employees. Two of the unredacted names you see, Larry Viskoski and David Rodgers, were Epstein’s personal pilots, and I think a maid is on that list, as well as Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and/or Nadia Marcinkova.
A proffer, if you’re not familiar with the criminal law term, is when law enforcement believes they have enough to charge you with a serious crime (usually a bunch of related felony charges) and they make you an offer: “If you tell us what you know about all of this, nothing you tell us will be used against you.” A proffer is useless without quite a bit of proof, so there usually is real evidence and at the very least enough to charge.
On the other hand, a proffer is very usually NOT in a person’s own best legal interests, so if is a person doesn’t take it that refusal doesn’t mean much in terms of innocence. A proffer in the Epstein files just means that there’s at least enough to charge that person with serious crimes related to Epstein’s misuse of children, at bare minimum, sometimes much more than that, and there are a group of “inner circle” Epstein employees who received proffers, including Ghislaine Maxwell.
EDITED to add: I found it. Groff was indeed proffered, and maybe not just once. This link is to the FBI interview done for that purpose in 2021; there may have been another proffer made in 2007 or 2008 in regard to Epstein’s first bust.
I think they are assessing whether she is a loose end. Certain measures will depend on her interactions. Let’s hope she doesn’t forcibly commit suicide.