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The Home Oversight Committee, led by GOP Chairman James Comer, mentioned it “won’t take into account” a request from Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys searching for immunity in alternate for her testimony to Congress.
The previous confederate and girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein was subpoenaed final week to testify earlier than Congress from jail as a part of a probe by lawmakers searching for to uncover extra details about the disgraced financier’s intercourse crimes. A subpoenaed deposition was scheduled for Aug. 11.
On Tuesday, Maxwell’s attorneys despatched a letter to Chairman Comer indicating she would invoke her Fifth Modification rights and keep silent in entrance of Congress except an immunity request was agreed upon.
In Maxwell’s immunity request, her lawyer’s supplied clemency as a doable resolution, indicating Maxwell “can be keen — and keen — to testify overtly and actually, in public, earlier than Congress” if it had been granted to her.
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“The Oversight Committee will reply to Ms. Maxwell’s lawyer quickly, but it surely won’t take into account granting congressional immunity for her testimony,” a spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital after receiving the letter.
The Home Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, proper, mentioned it won’t take into account Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell’s request for immunity in alternate for her congressional testimony after the committee subpoenaed her. (Getty Pictures)
Of their letter to Comer, Maxwell’s attorneys mentioned their consumer’s testimony may pose each authorized and safety dangers for his or her consumer. Maxwell’s authorized group additionally requested questions their consumer can be requested upfront of her testimony in entrance of Congress, however the Oversight spokesperson didn’t instantly communicate to that request.
One other request from Maxwell’s attorneys was that the deposition date be delayed till after the Supreme Court docket guidelines on Maxwell’s newest bid for an enchantment. On Monday, Maxwell’s attorneys requested the Excessive Court docket to listen to their consumer’s enchantment in her 2021 intercourse trafficking conviction, arguing the federal authorities “has an obligation to honor” a 2007 non-prosecution settlement that they consider ought to defend her from prison costs.
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Ghislaine Maxwell jogs across the monitor at FCI Tallahassee, in Tallahassee, Fla., July 10, 2025. (Matthew Symons for Fox Information Digital)
“Ms. Maxwell ought to by no means have been charged within the first place. In 2008, the US authorities promised, in writing, that she wouldn’t be prosecuted,” Maxwell’s attorneys wrote of their correspondence to Comer, including she didn’t obtain a good trial when convicted within the Southern District of New York for intercourse trafficking in 2021. “[The government] broke that promise solely after Mr. Epstein died in 2019, at which level Ms. Maxwell grew to become a handy scapegoat.”
Based on the attorneys, throughout Maxwell’s case within the Southern District of New York, prosecutors “wrongfully satisfied the trial decide to unfairly restrict Ms. Maxwell from presenting her protection, and a minimum of one juror lied a few materials reality throughout voir dire to be able to serve on the jury.”
A photograph composite displaying a courtroom sketch as Ghislaine Maxwell sits at a protection desk listening to testimony in her intercourse abuse trial Dec. 16, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
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Fox Information Digital reached out to Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, for remark, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Fox Information’ David Spunt and Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.
