Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell will exercise her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination later Monday when she appears virtually before the House Oversight Committee to be questioned about her links with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 64, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking, conspiracy and other charges in connection with her role as the perverted financier’s madam.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), confirmed Jan. 21 that Maxwell would appear before the committee. In response, Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, warned his client would take the Fifth — citing the ongoing appeal of her conviction in Manhattan federal court.
“Of course, in the alternative, if Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency,” Markus teased, “she would be willing—and eager—to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.”
Ahead of Monday’s hearing, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) submitted seven questions he intended to ask Maxwell during the hearing, including whether her legal team’s claim in a December filing that 29 associates of Epstein entered secret non-prosecution agreements was “accurate” and whether she would name those people.
Khanna also said he planned to ask Maxwell: “Did you or Mr. Epstein ever arrange, facilitate, or provide access to underage girls to President Trump?” — 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’s estate.
