‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant

No one’s name appears in the Epstein files more than that of Lesley Groff, his assistant. Reading through the thousands of emails, a troubling question arises: what did she know? Jonathan Whitcomb, attorney for Lesley Groff, 5 June 2020 “She did not know.” FBI interview with Lesley Groff, 24 September 2021 Groff met with a headhunter, and he told her that “there was a job to organize one man’s life. This man was EPSTEIN, a Manhattan socialite. GROFF had never heard of EPSTEIN before this.” In...

By Sophie Elmhirst