Epstein Survivors Just Blew Apart Former Aide Lesley Groff’s Story on Cash Passports and Locked Townhouse

Lesley Groff told Congress last month she never once met Jeffrey Epstein's victims.

Six of those very survivors just came forward with a very different story.

One inconsistency about passports and a locked townhouse could unravel her entire denial.

Groff Told Lawmakers She Was a Stranger to the Girls She Scheduled

For 18 years Lesley Groff sat at the center of Jeffrey Epstein's operation, booking his daily massages and running his calendar.

Chairman James Comer's House Oversight Committee is the reason she ever had to answer for it at all, hauling her in last month after years of nobody asking.

Once she sat down, she told lawmakers she barely knew a thing.

She said she never met a single one of the young women and girls sent to "massage" Epstein.

She said she had no idea any of them were minors.

She said she never handled a passport, never carried cash for Epstein, and stayed out of his New York townhouse for over a decade.

She called Epstein a "master manipulator" and cast herself as another one of his victims.

Six survivors are done buying it.

Marina Lacerda, who says Epstein first targeted her in 2002 when she was not yet 14, said Groff called her regularly and asked pointed questions before every visit.

"What does the girl look like, where is she from, how old is she," Lacerda recalled Groff asking on those calls.

Groff wanted school IDs brought in the door, according to Lacerda, because Epstein liked his victims young.

Passports and Cash Tell a Different Story Than Congress Heard

A lawmaker asked Groff directly if she ever handled the girls' passports.

Groff said no.

One survivor says she sat across from Groff at Epstein's New York office while Groff filled out her passport application by hand.

"She took all my information in person, she obviously knew my age," the survivor said.

Sharlene Rochard said Groff collected identification from her and other young women whenever a flight needed booking, paperwork that made their real ages plain.

Groff also denied ever paying Epstein's victims directly, telling the committee she only arranged for cash to be picked up.

Lacerda remembers it differently, describing envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills that Groff placed in her hands herself, always in one denomination and never the smaller bills a courier might use.

Another survivor said she and her friends showed up at Groff's door every other day for money, with one rule understood by everyone in the room.

Groff told Congress she stayed out of Epstein's townhouse between 2001 and 2013.

Two separate survivors say that timeline does not hold up, placing Groff at a desk near the entryway where she greeted them on their way in to see Epstein.

Comer's Committee Now Holds the Only Real Shot at Accountability

Lying to Congress is a federal crime, and Groff's transcript was never taken under oath.

The House Oversight Committee says it is now reviewing her testimony against everything survivors have laid out.

Ghislaine Maxwell is still the only name from Epstein's entire operation to ever face a courtroom in this country, and that is not an accident of bad luck.

It traces straight back to a 2008 non-prosecution deal cut by federal prosecutors in Florida, the same sweetheart arrangement that shielded Groff from charges before she ever sat down with a single lawmaker.

Sarah Kellen said she never suspected any of Epstein's massage clients were minors.

Groff now says the exact same thing Kellen did, word for word, two decades of Epstein's operation covered by the identical claim of total ignorance.

It is not good enough, and six women just proved it with details Groff cannot wave away as faded memory.

Passports do not fill themselves out, and cash does not count itself into hundred-dollar bills by accident.

Survivors have said plainly what they want next: one person connected to Epstein who walks into that committee room and simply tells the truth.

Until the DOJ's 2008 giveaway gets undone or overridden, every one of these interviews is just another chance for Epstein's protected class to hide behind a deal the swamp wrote for them.

Sources:

• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, "Oversight Committee Releases Gates and Groff Transcripts," U.S. House of Representatives, June 2026.
• PBS NewsHour, "Who is Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's Former Assistant Interviewed in House Probe?," PBS, June 2026.
• ABC News, "Former Epstein Executive Secretary Tells Oversight Committee He Was a 'Master Manipulator,'" ABC News, June 2026.