WASHINGTON: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, will appear before the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Monday via videolink from prison, though she is expected to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking underage girls to Epstein, faces questions from lawmakers investigating Epstein’s connections to powerful political, business, and social figures, and how information about his crimes was managed.
Ghislaine Maxwell invokes the Fifth tomorrow, but the silence is a smokescreen. While she stays quiet, the DOJ opens the unredacted Epstein files to Congress. 3M pages, 2k videos the black bars are finally coming off. The punchline is just being written in blood. 👹 pic.twitter.com/wgTHc0KUge
— Shield (@Shieldmetax) February 9, 2026
Despite efforts by Maxwell’s legal team to secure immunity to testify, Congress refused, prompting her attorneys to warn that the deposition “would serve no other purpose than pure political theater.”
Epstein, convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor, died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal child trafficking charges, in what authorities ruled a suicide. His extensive ties to the world’s elite—including former U.S. presidents and business leaders—have sparked scandals and resignations in the years following his arrest and death.
The Oversight Committee has also sought depositions from former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Clintons have called for their testimony to be public to prevent partisan misuse of the proceedings.
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Maxwell was recently transferred to a minimum-security facility in Texas after two meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. Trump himself, a longtime associate of Epstein, has not been summoned to testify.
The upcoming deposition, which will take place behind closed doors, highlights ongoing congressional scrutiny into the networks surrounding Epstein and Maxwell, and the political implications of the handling of their cases.