Lesley Groff attends a gala on February 23, 2010 in New York City. Groff was listed as a potential co-conspirator of her boss Jeffrey Epstein in a newly unredacted DOJ file.
Lesley Groff, in an undated file photo.
Lesley Groff,Jeffrey Epstein's longtime executive assistant, scheduled "massages" andcoordinated dozens of flights around the world for victims of the disgraced convicted sex trafficker, recently released Department of Justice documents show.
But it remains unknown whether the Connecticut resident knew about Epstein's sexual assaults, which one victim said once happened just on the other side of a closed door from where Groff was working.
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Victimsinterviewed by federal investigatorsallege that Groff scheduled “massages” in New York Citywhere Epstein assaulted women, according to internal FBI summaries of those victim interviews.
In some cases, Groff allegedly paid the victims or covered their schooling expenses, according to a December 2019Department of Justice memosummarizing nearly 50 interviews federal agents conducted while investigating potential co-conspirators of Epstein's, including testimony from 38 victims, nine of whom referenced Groff.
Groff,a New Canaan resident, also coordinated dozens of flights that brought potential victims to his properties around the world, according toDOJ documents, which include flight receipts and her emails about those bookings.
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In aJuly 2021 sit-down with prosecutors, Groff admitted to booking massages for Epstein, an internal FBI report on the meeting shows.
During aseparate interview in February 2020, notes show that Groff's lawyer, Michael Bachner, told investigators his client did not know the massages were sexual, was unaware the girls she was booking were underage, and thought that when the girls mentioned "class or school," they were talking about college.
CT Insider reviewed thousands of pages of DOJ documents, including emails, flight confirmations, victim interviews and photographs for this story.
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