'She's Lying': Epstein Victims Accuse His Ex-Assistant of Misleading Congress With False Information

Source: MEDIAite

Jul 9th, 2026, 1:19 pm


Some victims of late convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein have come forward to accuse his longtime assistant, Lesley Groff, of flat-out lying to Congress. CNN’s MJ Lee and Nicky Robertson dropped a report on Thursday based on interviews with Epstein victims, four of whom went on the record while two remained anonymous.

The survivors contradicted Hoff’s statements to the House Oversight Committee on multiple fronts, including that she never met Epstein’s victims or gave them payments. Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 as he was awaiting sex trafficking charges. He was already a registered sex offender at the time. One one person connected to Epstein, longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, has been charged in connection to the billionaire’s crimes despite the Department of Justice releasing millions of files related to Epstein’s case.

The DOJ has claimed there is not sufficient evidence that Epstein sex trafficked women for anyone other than himself, but critics and victims have called for far more accountability and criticized the heavy redactions in the files actually released to the public. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking, something DOJ said she did in coordination with Epstein.

Hoff claimed during a June 9 interview that despite 18 years as Epstein’s assistant, she was oblivious to his crimes. “For 18 years, I worked for Dr. Jekyll but was never permitted to see the true Mr. Hyde,” she said, calling him a “master manipulator.” Victims, however, have cast serious doubt on her account and accused her of lying to Congress.

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