# How Jeffrey Epstein Allegedly Used Elite Financial Services to Move Women (5/14/26)

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Podcast: [The Diddy Diaries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diddy-diaries-6672935)
Published: 2026-05-14T18:15:02+00:00
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Newly released emails and financial records show that Jeffrey Epstein’s office relied heavily on the ultra-exclusive American Express Centurion “Black Card” program to quietly arrange travel for dozens of women, many of them from Eastern Europe, while maintaining extreme secrecy around the bookings. The records reveal that Epstein’s longtime assistant, Lesley Groff, repeatedly instructed American Express staff to keep flight information hidden, remove email addresses from confirmations, and ensure that travel details were tightly controlled. The documents also describe how fake or temporary itineraries were allegedly arranged for visa purposes, allowing women to secure travel documents using reservations that were later canceled. Internal communications show at least one Amex representative acknowledging that some of the requests were “against Amex policy,” while still offering ways to accommodate them. The records provide a rare inside look at how Epstein allegedly used elite financial services and concierge-style corporate relationships to facilitate the movement of women across borders for years after his 2008 Florida conviction. Emails describe flights being coordinated between cities such as Moscow, Minsk, Miami, Palm Beach, Paris, and New York, with Groff at times referring to groups simply as “the girls.” The documents also show how obsessed Epstein’s office was with secrecy, with repeated panic over flight confirmations accidentally being sent to the wrong people. The reporting further highlights how Epstein remained an enormously valuable client for American Express despite being a convicted sex offender, generating massive spending volumes and holding multiple Centurion cards tied to associates and entities connected to his operation. Critics quoted in the co…

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