Maxwell Invokes Right to Silence on Lawmakers’ Epstein Questions

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein refused on Monday to answer any questions from a House panel investigating Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Maxwell appeared virtually for a scheduled deposition but then invoked her Fifth Amendment constitutional right not to incriminate herself in testimony, said James Comer, the committee’s Republican chairman.

Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in 2013.

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The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been investigating Epstein and what role the financier’s broad network of connections may have played in facilitating his enterprise or delaying criminal prosecution.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of recruiting girls for sexual abuse and ...