{"id":416428,"date":"2026-02-09T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416428\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:09","slug":"live-updates-ghislaine-maxwell-refuses-to-answer-questions-to-epstein-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416428\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer questions to Epstein committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghislaine Maxwell to face US congressional hearing on Epsteinpublished at 14:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>14:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sitting together\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/40bacb91-b7ea-496a-840f-1f5d400c64d9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, US Department of Justice<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ghislaine Maxwell will face questions under oath before the congressional committee investigating the US federal government&#8217;s handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 64-year-old will be questioned behind closed doors and<br \/>\nher appearance will be via video link rather than in-person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for<br \/>\nrecruiting and trafficking teenage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maxwell\u2019s lawyer told the BBC on Sunday that Maxwell \u201cwill<br \/>\ntake the 5th\u201d, meaning that she does not have to give evidence that may<br \/>\nself-incriminate her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maxwell will read &#8220;a prepared statement at the outset of the deposition&#8221;, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her appearance before the committee comes less than two<br \/>\nweeks after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released over three million<br \/>\ndocuments in the latest release of the Epstein files, which have further<br \/>\nexposed Epstein&#8217;s relations with powerful individuals across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Survivors of Epstein appeared in an advert on US television on<br \/>\nSunday calling for the release of more files related to him. The DOJ was<br \/>\nrequired by law to make all the files public in December last year. However,<br \/>\nnot all have been released, and many with redactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a reminder, appearing in the files does not imply any<br \/>\nwrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell to face US congressional hearing on Epsteinpublished at 14:12 GMT 14:12 GMT Image source, US Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-416428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}