{"podcast":{"title":"The Epstein Chronicles","slug":"the-epstein-chronicles-4089394","podcast_index_feed_id":4089394,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5003294/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-epstein-chronicles","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/74ea40788dd99ac7f02283669a63532e.jpg","author":"Bobby Capucci","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Jeffrey Epstein was a multi millionaire who had political and business ties to some of the most rich and powerful people in the world. From businessmen to politicians at the highest levels, Epstein broke bread with them all. Yet for years the Legacy media and the rest of high society looked the other way and ignored his behavior as multiple women came forward with allegations of abuse. Even after he was convicted and subsequently received a sweetheart deal those same so called elites welcomed him back with open arms. Now after his death and the arrest of Maxwell, the real story is starting to come together and the curtain has begun to be drawn back and what it has revealed is truly disturbing. From Princes to Ex Presidents, the cast of scoundrels in this play spans continents and political affiliations leaving us with a transcontinental criminal conspiracy possibly unlike any we have ever seen before. In this podcast we will explore all of the levels of Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal enterprise. From his most trusted assistants to obscure associates, we will leave no stone unturned as we swim through the muck searching for clarity and answers to some of the most pressing questio…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T16:18:16.653536+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles-4089394"},"episode":{"title":"Lesley Groff and the Administrative Backbone of Epstein’s World (Part 1) (5/29/26)","slug":"lesley-groff-and-the-administrative-backbone-of-epstein-s-world-part-1-5-29-26","published_at":"2026-05-29T11:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles-4089394/lesley-groff-and-the-administrative-backbone-of-epstein-s-world-part-1-5-29-26","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles-4089394","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lesley-groff-and-the-administrative-backbone-of-epstein-s-world-part-1-5-29-26--72212599","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72212599/groff1.mp3","summary":"Lesley Groff was Jeffrey Epstein’s longest-serving and most senior assistant, working for him from 2001 until his 2019 arrest, and the newly examined records place her closer to his daily life than almost anyone else in the Epstein files. Her name reportedly appears more than any other name in the released material, because she handled the machinery of Epstein’s world: calendars, travel, calls, appointments, visitors, gifts, household details, meals, flights, logistics, and the constant scheduling of massages. Groff has always maintained through her lawyers that she did not know Epstein was committing crimes, and she has never been criminally charged. But the record creates the obvious and uncomfortable question: how could someone so embedded in Epstein’s routines, movements, communications, and appointments remain unaware of what was happening around him for nearly two decades? The documents show her as an intensely loyal functionary inside Epstein’s operation, someone who could move from arranging absurd household preferences to coordinating meetings with powerful men, while also helping facilitate the flow of young women, guests, and associates through his homes and social orbit. The larger significance is that Groff’s role sits in the gray zone between legal culpability, claimed ignorance, and moral responsibility. She was not Ghislaine Maxwell, and the public record does not show that prosecutors ever charged her as an accomplice, but she was also not a distant employee who occasionally answered a phone. She was the person Epstein relied on to make the system work, and that system included the very rhythms that survivors later described as central to his abuse: massages, travel, private meetings, assistants, young women, and a network of people whose access had to…","meta_description":"Lesley Groff was Jeffrey Epstein’s longest-serving and most senior assistant, working for him from 2001 until his 2019 arrest, and the newly examined reco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":940,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-epstein-chronicles-4089394/episodes/lesley-groff-and-the-administrative-backbone-of-epstein-s-world-part-1-5-29-26/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles-4089394/lesley-groff-and-the-administrative-backbone-of-epstein-s-world-part-1-5-29-26.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}