Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee are expected to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell A notorious co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday for conspiring with the late billionaire pedophile.

Maxwell, who is currently serving her sentence in a Texas prison, will appear virtually before a congressional panel at 10 a.m. ET. Her testimony will take place behind closed doors, meaning it will not be viewed publicly unless the committee chooses to release video footage after the fact.

It’s likely to be a brief encounter, and Maxwell is expected to avoid answering questions on Fifth Amendment grounds.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have both been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abusing underage girls. (Jo Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Cuomo (R-Ky.) announced that lawmakers will hear from Maxwell at a meeting on the detention of the former president bill clinton Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in contempt of Congress for refusing to appear before the Epstein investigation.

“We have been trying to get her to testify. Our lawyers have been saying she will plead her case to Committee 5, but we have set a date, February 9, that Ghislaine Maxwell will be removed from that committee,” Cuomo said last month.

Contempt proceedings against the Clintons However, the case stalled after the full House of Representatives was expected to vote to refer the two men to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges after they agreed through their lawyers to appear in person on Capitol Hill.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James M. Cuomo speaks to the media at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2025 (Kevin Dickey/Getty Images)

Cuomo’s team has been going back and forth with Maxwell’s attorneys for months, trying to determine a date when she would speak with the committee’s attorneys.

He agreed to postpone her previously planned deposition in August after her lawyers asked him to wait until the Supreme Court decides whether to hear her appeal. In October, the Supreme Court dismissed Maxwell’s case.

New photos of Ghislaine Maxwell included in newly released Epstein files from Justice Department

The former British socialite was found guilty in December 2021 of being an accessory to Epstein’s sex trafficking and exploitation scheme of underage women.

After President Trump signed the Epstein Documents Transparency Act in November, the Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents on December 19. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The U.S. Department of Justice said at sentencing that Maxwell “engaged in numerous ways to induce and groom underage girls for abuse.”

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Her testimony was part of a months-long investigation by the House Oversight Committee into how the government handled the Epstein case.