An attorney for the New Canaan woman says she "had no criminal involvement with Epstein."
Groff's name appears at least 157,613 times in the files, a figure that dwarfs other more well-known members of Epstein's network, including convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell (13,169 mentions), deceased French model and alleged recruiter Jean-Luc Brunel (4,727 mentions),
Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn (52,781 mentions) and his personal lawyer Darren Indyke (17,783 mentions).
She is so prominent that DOJ lawyers even debated how to handle all the files mentioning her,
according to internal department emails from October 2020 included in the files' release…
Groff has maintained that she "never witnessed anything improper or illegal,"
according to a statement her lawyers released when prosecutors declined to bring charges in 2021.
But Groff was one of four women, all Epstein assistants, named in the controversial non-prosecution agreement that Epstein reached with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2008, in exchange for his guilty plea and 13-month sentence. Epstein had been facing up to 45 years in prison before the agreement.