WASHINGTON — Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a deposition before the powerful House Oversight Committee Monday as it investigates her links to the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 64, answered no questions while appearing virtually from the federal prison camp in Texas where she is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, conspiracy and other crimes committed while in the service of Epstein, a source familiar with her testimony told The Post.
The Epstein confidant’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, had previously noted his client would take the Fifth so as to not interfere with an appeal of her conviction in Manhattan federal court.
“Of course, in the alternative, if Ms. Maxwell were to receive clemency,” Markus noted in a letter to Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) last month, “she would be willing — and eager — to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, DC.”
