Ghislaine Maxwell Pleads Fifth In US House Committee Appearance From Prison | Video

Last Updated:February 10, 2026, 09:29 IST

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions of the US House Oversight Committee.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, on Monday declined to answer questions from US House lawmakers and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights during her deposition.

She further indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions of the US House Oversight Committee against self-incrimination during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas.

Dressed in a prison-issued shirt, Maxwell can be seen sitting at a conference table and repeatedly saying that she was invoking her “Fifth Amendment right to silence".

Her role came under scrutiny after lawmakers tried to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years.

During the closed-door deposition, Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus in a statement to the committee, said that “Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump".

He added that both Trump and Clinton “are innocent of any wrongdoing," but that “Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation."

Maxwell’s deposition comes as the US Department of Justice has released millions of internal documents related to  Epstein.

(With agency inputs)

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