In one newly released file, a woman who worked as a longtime executive assistant to Jeffrey Epstein said she regularly scheduled massages for him. She said the massages were described to her as a normal part of Epstein’s routine, and indicated she never witnessed any wrongdoing.
The revelations were made in an attorney proffer dated Feb. 13, 2020. An attorney proffer is a procedure in which a witness or defendant can provide written answers through their legal counsel. It’s unclear what specific case this proffer was for.
In it, the woman said she worked for Epstein from the early 2000s until she resigned following his 2019 arrest.
She described at length her scheduling of daily massages, which she said were around one or two a day. She said the massages were described to her as “just part of his normal day. Akin to someone going daily to the gym.”
“Massage appointments were a part of a normal day and were usually a daily occurrence,” the executive assistant said.
She said that after Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida in 2008 — for which he served about 13 months in county jail — she “was not asked to make massage appointments after his plea, and, to her memory, the word ‘massage’ was not used again,” according to the proffer.
She claimed that after Epstein’s first arrest, she gave him “the benefit of the doubt” since he continued to associate with the same businesspeople and politicians, and that he “continued to claim it was all blackmail.”
She said she decided not to resign at that time because she liked the flexibility of her lifestyle in working for him.
However, she said she quit after Epstein was indicted in 2019, saying she felt “used” as well as “betrayed and disgusted,” and that she realized the previous allegations were likely real despite Epstein’s denials.
The name in the proffer was mostly redacted, but twice the initials “LG” were accidentally left in the document. The “L” is also visible in many of the redactions. The initials and biographical details, such as the timing of the birth of the individual’s son, match those of Lesley Groff, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant.
A civil lawsuit against Groff was voluntarily dropped in 2021.