Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant Leslie Groff (C) arrives to testify at a closed session of the House Oversight Committee at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2026.
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Leslie Groff, former executive assistant to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began transcribing a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday morning.
Mr. Groff attended the committee meeting the day before. microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates is also scheduled to speak before the same committee, which has spent months interviewing various high-profile figures connected to Epstein.
“I have never seen anything inappropriate,” Groff told the committee, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by MS NOW.
Officials said Groff denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes.
Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, and her name appears more than 150,000 times in Epstein’s files released by the Justice Department. Groff was responsible for arranging meetings between Epstein and celebrities and scheduling massages from women, MS NOW said.
Neither Groff nor Gates have been charged with any wrongdoing related to Epstein, who committed suicide in a federal prison in New York in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
Groff’s press conference was attended by House Chaplain Margaret Grand Kibben, who does not normally attend such proceedings, for unknown reasons.
“She had no criminal involvement with Epstein,” Groff’s attorney, Michael Buckner, said in a statement.
“Mr. Leslie is simply disgusted by Mr. Epstein’s actions and is heartbroken by what his victims have endured,” Buckner said in March, MS NOW reported.
Rep. James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, who chairs the committee, told MS NOW that the committee has referred the names of the two individuals to the Department of Justice. He did not identify them.
“I think the interviews we had were very productive,” Comer told reporters Tuesday morning.
“We’re going to bring in some of the most important people in the entire Epstein criminal organization who are still alive, and we hope to have evidence that there’s an opportunity for accountability to the American people,” Comer said.
Asked if the committee would subpoena acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Comer said Democrats on the committee already had a chance to question Blanche when he and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi briefed the committee on the Justice Department’s so-called Epstein file in March.
President Donald Trump formally nominated Blanche to be attorney general on Monday, subject to Senate confirmation. President Trump fired Bondi in April, dissatisfied with his handling of the controversy surrounding the Epstein file.
Congress passed a bill in November that would require the Justice Department to release all documents related to Epstein, over the objections of President Trump. President Trump quickly signed the bill into law, and the Justice Department released millions of Epstein case documents, but Blanche said on January 30 that the Justice Department had about 2.5 million more withheld and would not release any more.
Epstein’s victims opposed the Justice Department’s decision.
Bondi said in an interview with the House Oversight Committee two weeks ago that he had appointed Branch to be in charge of releasing the files.
Mr. Trump was a longtime friend of Mr. Epstein until the two had a falling out in the early 2000s.
Branch is a former criminal defense attorney for President Trump.
