$100,000: The Wire Epstein Sent Lesley Groff in 2017, Nine Years After His Conviction

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Epstein had been a convicted sex offender since 2008. He had served his sentence, registered as a sex offender in New York, and resumed his operations. And in 2017, he was still wiring six-figure sums to the woman who managed his calendar, coordinated his travel, and served as the gatekeeper between a convicted predator and the rest of the world.

Document vol00009-efta00092643-pdf — a federal exhibit titled the Timeline of Payments to (or on Behalf of) Potential Co-Conspirators — captures the January 3 transfer alongside years of other payments flowing from Epstein's accounts.

Groff's name appears on the timeline with a specific notation: she was one of four co-conspirators granted immunity under Epstein's 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement with the Southern District of Florida.

The immunity did not require her to stop working for him.

2016: Visa Applications and St. Barth Hotel Bookings

By March 2016, Groff was still managing Epstein's household operations with the same precision that had defined her work since 2001. The archive captures her role in a particular set of travel arrangements: visa coordination for Karyna Shuliak, a woman who later appeared in Epstein's 2019 trust as a principal beneficiary of his $120 million estate share.

Document vol00010-efta02057293-pdf, dated March 16, 2016, shows an email thread between Groff and Natalia Molotkova — an American Express Centurion Relationship Manager — about hotel reservations and visa logistics for Shuliak ahead of a trip to St. Barthélemy.

The exchange includes a hotel's request for confirmation of length of stay and Groff's reply: Sure. We can still cancel even though we reconfirm with them I would think?

Document vol00010-efta02057611-pdf captures the same thread from a parallel email chain, showing Groff coordinating on both hotel booking and Schengen visa paperwork for Shuliak.

This was eight years after Epstein's 2008 conviction.

December 2018: Travel Coordination, Seven Months Before His Arrest

The archive continues into the final months of Epstein's freedom. Document vol00011-efta02268579-pdf, dated December 5, 2018, shows Groff responding to Molotkova about a family travel booking — referred to internally as the SI family — involving multiple rooms and at least five passengers.

The correspondence is routine. Groff is asking about seat availability on a flight, selecting between room types at a hotel (King city view vs. Classic riverside view), and coordinating third-party credit card authorization forms.

Jeffrey Epstein would be arrested by federal agents seven months later, on July 6, 2019.

Groff appears in 62,331 documents across the FBI-seized archive. The December 2018 emails are among the most recent in the collection, placing her in active coordination with Epstein's travel infrastructure in the final period before his arrest.

Named as a Civil Defendant: Case 1:17-cv-00616-JGK

While Groff was managing bookings and wire transfers through 2016 and 2017, she was also being named as a civil defendant in federal court.

Document vol00009-efta00791905-pdf is the 2018 Answer of Jeffrey Epstein in Case 1:17-cv-00616-JGK — a civil lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York by Jane Doe 43.

The caption of that filing names the defendants as Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, and Lesley Groff.

Victims described Groff as the person who answered the phone, scheduled their appointments, and sat outside the closed door during visits to Epstein's residence. In her FBI proffer interview, Groff maintained that scheduling massages was around 1% of her job.

No criminal charges were ever filed. Her 2007 NPA immunity remained intact.

The Estate Network: Indyke, Kahn, and the 2012 Email

The archive shows Groff operating not only in household logistics but in the legal and financial infrastructure of Epstein's estate.

Document vol00009-efta00415165-pdf, dated April 17, 2012, shows Groff emailing Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn — Epstein's two co-executors and estate managers, who would later administer his $577 million estate — with a direct request: come see JE today at 2:30 with all the Chris Knight stuff.

The message places Groff as the operational interface between Epstein and the two men who controlled his legal and financial affairs. Indyke and Kahn's names thread through the FBI archive in contexts spanning trust documents, account management, and shell company administration.

What the Documents Show

The payments timeline. The hotel bookings. The visa coordination. The civil lawsuit. The email to the estate lawyers.

Together, they trace a decade of post-conviction activity managed by the woman who answered Epstein's calls and kept his schedule.

Document vol00009-efta00092643-pdf places Groff on the federal government's own co-conspirator payments timeline. The documents do not allege wrongdoing. What they show is sustained, documented operation — through conviction, through civil litigation, through the final days of 2018.

The $100,000 wire on January 3, 2017, was not an isolated transaction. The archive records no point at which the operational relationship ended before Epstein's July 2019 arrest.

All individuals mentioned are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.