Lesley Groff, center, a former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, arrives to testify at a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on June 09, 2026 in Washington.
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have said the disgraced financier'sformer assistant, Lesley Groff, a Connecticut resident, lied during testimony before Congress last month,CNN reported Thursday.
Grofftestified to lawmakersthat she did not know about Epstein's sex trafficking operation, insisted she never witnessed abuse and never knowingly scheduled appointments for minors and was unaware crimes were occurring.
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Groff, a New Canaan resident, worked for Epstein for 18 years as his executive assistant in New York City.
"Mr. Epstein was, in hindsight, a master manipulator and deceiver who separated his legitimate life from his secret life as an abuser and made sure that, as his secretary, those two worlds did not collide," Groff testified during the June 9 hearing before the House Oversight Committee.
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But victims of Epsteinsaid in interviews with CNNthat they had met Groff in person, were directly paid by her and had discussed how old they were with her, the outlet reported.
CNN cited interviews with six of Epstein's victims, four of whom were identified by name and two who spoke with the news outlet anonymously.
One survivor, Sharlene Rochard, told CNN it was impossible for Groff not to know her age because Groff had Rochard's passport information for travel.
