Guylaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's partner, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on Monday, declined to answer questions directed to her by a US House of Representatives committee in the case of the late financier convicted of sex crimes. While a section of Americans and figures belonging to the radical right believe that the financier was assassinated to prevent him from pointing the finger of blame at figures who benefited from his network of sexually exploiting minors.

Published on: 02/09/2026 - 22:19

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Geelyne Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's partner, refused to answer questions directed to her on Monday by members of a special committee in the US Congress.

"Fifth Amendment"

The Republican Chairman of this committee, James Comer, said after a short closed session that included a video call from her prison in Texas (south), where she is serving a 20-year prison sentence, “As expected, Gellaine Maxwell resorted to the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions.” He described what happened as "very disappointing."

Maxwell's lawyers, who appealed the prison sentence issued against her in 2022, had warned in a letter to Comer that she would use her right not to incriminate herself, which is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.

“Her lawyer said she would answer questions if she got a presidential pardon” from Donald Trump, Coomer added.

The lawyers had demanded that she be granted criminal immunity in exchange for her testimony, but the parliamentary committee refused.

It is noteworthy that this session came in the midst of the confusion resulting from the publication by the Ministry of Justice on January 30 of last year of huge amounts of documents related to the Epstein case, which caused embarrassment to many figures in the United States and across the world.

Todd Blanche, the ministry's second-in-command, had clarified that these "more than three million pages" did not contain any new elements that could lead to additional prosecutions.

Although the mere mention of someone's name in the dossier does not necessarily mean that they have committed any wrongdoing, many prominent figures fear the trauma their past connections to Epstein may cause.

Trump and Clinton are not guilty

Comer explained that Maxwell's lawyer, 64, told the committee on Monday that "it does not have any information showing that Presidents Trump or Clinton are guilty in any way."

Former Democratic President Bill Clinton and current Republican President Donald Trump had relationships with Epstein, but they confirm that they broke them off long before his suicide in prison in New York in 2019, and they were not aware of his sexual crimes.

In addition, at the end of the month, the same parliamentary committee summoned both Clinton and his wife, Hillary, the former Secretary of State, to hear their testimony separately about the former president’s relations with Epstein.

But last week the couple requested public hearings, saying they wanted to avoid Republicans taking advantage of their statements.

Maxwell can't believe her prison partner committed suicide

Moreover, at the end of July, Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, took an unusual step, as he moved to Florida (southeast), where Maxwell was serving her sentence, to interrogate her for a day and a half.

Shortly after that, she was transferred to a less stringent prison in Texas, which angered the victims and their families.

In the transcript of this interview, which was published by the Department of Justice in August, Maxwell says that she does not believe that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison, but she refuses to speculate on the identity of the person responsible for the death of her former partner.

A portion of Americans and figures belonging to the radical right also believe that the financier was assassinated to prevent him from pointing the finger of blame at figures who benefited from his network of sexually exploiting minors.

In the same interview, Maxwell confirmed that Epstein did not maintain a “client list” and was not aware of any blackmail of important figures.

France 24/AFP

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