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Anna Betts

‘He was a master manipulator,’ Jeffrey Epstein assistant Lesley Groff testifies

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Lesley Groff attends Central Park Conservancy 30th anniversary gala at Central Park Boathouse on 23 February 2010 in New York City. Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime executive assistant, testified Tuesday before the House oversight and reform committee, telling lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes while working for him.

“I believe that my testimony will dispel the false notion that because of my employment with Epstein, I must have knowingly enabled or conspired with him to commit his evil acts,” Groff told lawmakers in her prepared opening remarks, obtained by the Guardian. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

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