The House Oversight Committee released a video Monday of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked about her links to Jeffrey Epstein.
“I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer that question or any related questions,” Maxwell said in her British accent when asked if she was a “close friend and confidante” of Epstein.
“My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York,” Maxwell explained. “I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.”
Maxwell, 64, appeared to be wearing the tan-colored uniform issued to inmates at the federal prison camp in Texas, where she is serving a 20-year sentence and from where she appeared virtually before the panel.
The former socialite and convicted Epstein accomplice pleaded the Fifth for every question asked by the committee.
Maxwell even invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if she planned to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
“Ms. Maxwell, is it your intention to answer every question put to you by the committee today with the assertion of your Fifth Amendment right to self-incrimination?” an investigator asked.
To which Maxwell responded, “I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence.”
Her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, insists that she will only talk to lawmakers if President Trump grants her clemency.
Markus has also said if offered clemency, Maxwell can explain why both Trump and former President Bill Clinton are “innocent of any wrongdoing” in the Epstein matter.
Maxwell’s deposition took place the same day lawmakers were granted access to unredacted Epstein files.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has viewed some of the documents, claims they include the names of at least six possible Epstein co-conspirators.
“In a couple of hours, we found six men whose names have been redacted, who are implicated in the way that the files are presented,” Massie said at a press conference.
The Kentucky Republican did not disclose the names he saw in the files, but said at least one of the men is a US citizen, another is a foreigner, and one is “pretty high up in a foreign government.”
