A top Republican in the US House of Representatives has dropped the latest bombshell in the saga over the files of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
‘February 9, we’re deposing Miss Maxwell,’ Republican House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced during a congressional committee meeting held Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime romantic partner and accomplice of Epstein, will comply with a congressional subpoena and sit for a deposition.
Wednesday’s hearing focused on a pair of congressional resolutions introduced to hold former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas to discuss their relationship with Epstein.
While Republicans focused on the need for the Clintons to come testify, Democrats called the zeroing in on the former President and First Lady politically motivated.
Comer, however, shared that he wanted more information about Epstein to come out from any and all relevant sources.
‘I agree that we need to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell,’ Comer noted Wednesday, also admitting that his staff has ‘been trying to get her in for a deposition. Our lawyers have been saying that she’s going to plead the fifth, but we have nailed down a date, February 9, where Ghislaine Maxwell will be deposed by this committee,’ he continued.
However, Comer also shared that Maxwell’s lawyers have ‘made it clear that she’s going to plead the fifth.’
‘I hope she changes her mind, because I want to hear from her,’ Comer also noted.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City
With photographs of former U.S. President Bill Clinton behind him, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (top right) (R-KY) speaks during a hearing at the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. The full committee was expected to vote on a markup of a resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee related to the ongoing investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein files
Democrats also tried to include the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Pam Bondi in the contempt of Congress charges, as all of the Epstein Files have still not been released despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act being passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in November of 2025.
Ohio Democratic Representative Shontel Brown said during Wednesday’s hearing that 99 percent of the Epstein Files are still with the Department.
Comer himself said Wednesday that even he would like to see the files be released at a faster pace.
‘Attorney General Bondi, the Department of Justice, are producing documents, while the pace is slower than any of us would prefer, and must speed up,’ Comer noted.
