{"id":127831,"date":"2026-02-09T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:45:00","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-set-to-take-the-fifth-in-appearance-before-house-oversight-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127831\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell set to take the Fifth in appearance before House Oversight Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> will exercise her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination later Monday when she appears virtually before the House Oversight Committee<\/a> to be questioned about her links with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

Maxwell, 64, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021<\/a> of sex trafficking, conspiracy and other charges in connection with her role as the perverted financier\u2019s personal madam.<\/p>\n

Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and other charges in connection to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) confirmed Jan. 21 that Maxwell would appear before the committee. In response, Maxwell\u2019s attorney, David Oscar Markus, warned that his client would take the Fifth \u2014 citing the ongoing appeal of her conviction <\/a>in Manhattan federal court.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, in the alternative, if Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency,\u201d Markus teased, \u201cshe would be willing \u2014 and eager \u2014 to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, DC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of Monday\u2019s hearing, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) submitted seven questions he intended to ask Maxwell, including whether her legal team\u2019s claim in a December filing that 29 associates of Epstein<\/a> entered secret non-prosecution agreements was \u201caccurate\u201d and whether she would name those people.<\/p>\n

Court documents from the Virginia Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell case show former Prince Andrew with Giuffre around 2001. DOJ<\/p>\n

Maxwell will appear virtually before the committee to be questioned about her links with Epstein. ZUMA24.com<\/p>\n

Khanna also said he planned to ask Maxwell, \u201cDid you or Mr. Epstein ever arrange, facilitate, or provide access to underage girls to President Trump?\u201d \u2014 despite no evidence of wrongdoing by the president in the voluminous files released in recent months by both the Justice Department and the late financier\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n

Maxwell was previously interviewed for nine hours over two days this past July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, telling him at one point that she \u201cnever witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way\u201d while Trump and Epstein were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n

The UK-born socialite also provided\u00a0almost no new information on Epstein\u2019s other infamous associates, including\u00a0Andrew\u00a0Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York; ex-Harvard University President Larry Summers;\u00a0Microsoft co-founder\u00a0Bill Gates,<\/a>\u00a0or former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.<\/p>\n

Khanna also said he planned to ask Maxwell if she or Epstein maintained \u201cclient lists or records\u201d and whether the onetime Wall Street whiz worked on behalf of any foreign governments or intelligence services.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been dogged by the Epstein case since this past July 6, when the FBI and Justice Department issued a joint memo concluding that the convicted sex offender killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges \u2014 and that, contrary to widespread speculation, he did not keep a list of rich and powerful friends to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14.<\/p>\n

Days after her interview with Blanche, Maxwell was transferred from federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla., to a medium-security camp in Texas \u2014 raising more eyebrows among critics who suggested that she was in line for a pardon or commutation from Trump.<\/p>\n

The White House has insisted no such clemency is under consideration.<\/p>\n

During her interview with Blanche, Maxwell compared the frenzied speculation to \u201ca Salem witch trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have gone and lost their minds for this thing. I understand that,\u201d she said at one point. \u201cBut the issue is, how do you satisfy a mob who can\u2019t understand the lifestyle?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell will exercise her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination later Monday when she appears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7115,22635,6769,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-127831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}