WASHINGTON — Lesley Groff, who worked as an administrative assistant for Jeffrey Epstein, testified on Tuesday before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Groff, 59, was summoned to the closed-door hearing in a letter on March 3. She delivered a pre-written statement and answered lawmakers’ questions.
“I am not a conspirator, and I never would have agreed to this language. Their unilateral decision to label me as a potential conspirator remains my scarlet letter,” she told lawmakers in a pre-written testimony about prosecutors referring to her as a co-conspirator in 2008 in Palm Beach County, according to Politico.
Groff worked for Epstein for about 18 years, starting in 2001, and she continued to do so despite him becoming a registered sex offender in 2008.
“She’s maintaining that she really didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein, even though she worked for him for 18 years,” U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch told reporters.
U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s ranking member, said Epstein had described Groff as someone he was “very close” to.
Groff, who lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, was mentioned more than 150,000 times in the files released by the U.S. Department of Justice.
“There are some things that she said that probably aren’t along the same lines as what some of the victims have said,” U.S. Rep. James Comer, the committee’s chair, told CNN. “So, we’re going to have to review that.”
In a civil lawsuit that survivors filed in 2024 in New York, Groff was alleged to have “made travel arrangements for the girls, tended to their living needs, and scheduled massage sessions.”
Rep. Yassamin Ansari told CNN that Groff faced questions about scheduling meetings between Epstein and President Donald Trump before their fallout.
“She said she did that about once a quarter,” Ansari said. She later wrote on X, “This is a massive cover up. When Democrats are back in power, we need to bring back every witness to testify under oath in front of the American people.”
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