Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice refused to testify. Ghislaine Maxwell She chose complete silence
On Monday, 64-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell, once a close associate and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, remotely participated in a meeting of the House Oversight Committee.
Why did Ghislaine Maxwell refuse to testify?
What is Maxwell's reason for using the 5th Amendment?
What was Ghislaine Maxwell's punishment?
When did Jeffrey Epstein die?
“She was asked, among other things, whether she was a close friend of Epstein, whether she helped him traffic in girls and whether she instructed girls to provide them with sexual favors,” the commission reports on the X platform, attaching the recording.
The post emphasized that Maxwell, instead of answering questions put to her, chose “complete silence” and exercised her right to refuse to give evidence that could incriminate her – the so-called Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Who is Ghislaine Maxwell?
The daughter of the late British media magnate Robert Maxwell, she attended salons for years and was a close associate of Epstein. In 2021, the court found her guilty and in 2022 sentenced her to 20 years in prison for complicity in Epstein's sexual crimes, which occurred between 1994 and 2004. The allegations included, among others: sex trafficking of minors, inducing travel to engage in illicit sexual acts, and transporting minors to engage in criminal activities.
In October 2025, the US Supreme Court decided not to hear the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell, who asked for her 20-year sentence to be overturned. However, another complaint by her lawyers is pending, claiming that her trial was unfair.
Jeffrey Epstein himself, accused of trafficking minors and molesting children, died in a federal prison cell in August 2019, just before the start of the trial that was supposed to reveal the backstage of his activities and connections with political and financial elites.
