Jeffrey Epstein’s former secretary has spoken to Congress. Her testimony detailed Donald Trump’s phone calls with the late convicted sex offender. Lesley Groff started working for Epstein in 2001. Her testimony, released on Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, offers one of the most specific insider accounts yet of regular contact between the two men. It also contradicts recent claims by Vice President JD Vance that the association ended much earlier.
Jeffrey Epstein’s former secretary talks about Donald Trump calls
Groff told the committee she could not recall arranging face-to-face meetings between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, though she did not rule them out. What she remembered clearly was putting calls through.
“I suppose they were friendly,” she said. “I don’t know if they had any business going on. That wasn’t something that I asked. That’s not something I discussed with Mr. Epstein or Mr. Trump, so I don’t really know. It’s possible that they were friendly.” She also told lawmakers she had no memory of a widely reported photograph of Trump that Epstein allegedly kept on his desk.
Beyond managing her boss’s contact with the future president, Groff described a far darker daily routine. Her opening statement detailed scheduling massages for Epstein with a stream of different women, both in New York and the UK.
Trump himself once spoke warmly of the late convicted sex offender. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” he told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
At the time, Epstein reportedly called Trump his “closest friend” and described him as “charming”. Photographs and accounts from the period show the pair partying together, occasionally with Melania Knauss, Trump’s current wife.
When Epstein was convicted of sex crimes against minors in 2008, Trump created distance. By 2019, as federal sex trafficking charges landed, he insisted he barely knew the man and was “not a fan.”
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
