Live updates: House committee to subpoena Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell
By: NBC News
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Updated July 22, 2025, 2:06 PM EDTBy NBC News
What to know today
- EPSTEIN CASE: The House Oversight Committee will subpoena Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, a committee spokesperson told NBC News. The announcement comes as the House moved to start its summer recess a day early amid the fight on Capitol Hill over the release of the government's files on Epstein.
- DOJ MEETING: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is also seeking a meeting with Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
The House Oversight Committee plans to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell "as expeditiously as possible," a committee spokesperson said.
The move comes amid a growing push, including from some allies of President Donald Trump, for the administration to release additional files related to Epstein. Epstein died in jail in 2019 awaiting a trial on federal sex trafficking charges, and his death has sparked conspiracy theories for years.
A House Oversight subcommittee unanimously approved a motion on Tuesday directing committee chair James Comer to issue a subpoena for Maxwell. Only four members were present.
Comer, R-Ky., had directed Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., to introduce the motion after the Tennessee lawmaker requested that the committee subpoena her. The motion allows "the Committee to formally consider whether to proceed," the committee spokesperson said.
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The committee voted to subpoena her, but it has to pass through the whole House.
I think the Democrats are making a mistake by going along with this. There is no doubt she will perjure herself to Congress in exchange for a pardon.
Transparency is usually a political mistake for Democrats. I agree.
It's Trump's people. She won't perjure herself, she'll just ignore the subpoena like Jim Jordan or plead the 5th hundreds of times like Trump himself.
Trump when he pardons Ghislaine Maxwell in a few weeks - "She loves Trump and I think she has suffered enough".
My take is this could get interesting , BUT, she still has an appeal in the works , have to see what plays out and what might be asked and what might be answered, guarantee if anything is asked that can affect her appeal , there wont be any answers given because of the appeal.
Donald Trump WILL pardon Ghislaine Maxwell if she gives him the answers he is looking for.
Maybe , maybe not , opinions do vary.
Here is what I am individually thinking .
currently we know there is a list of victims , whom have made accusations , so there is a good chance there is also a "johns list " based on those accusations and who is on it is kind of an open secret of speculation .
i dont see the issue of being what politicians are on the list , but who that are heavy hitting political donors , the money people who fund campaigns that can be tied to current or past politicians is where it can and likely will get very messy .
But I could be wrong as well.
Correction, there WAS a good chance that there was a "johns list ". Epstein's arrest and search warrant were during Trump's 1st term. Do you really think he'd allow that list to exist after it was found?
I say publish it and prosecute everyone on it. and if that isn't possible due to statute of limitations, then at the very least publicly shame them.
safe to say , if they still have a list of accusers/ victims , they can reconstitute a "johns list" even if it somehow got "lost".
They needed something to convict Maxwell with , and my hunch is the list of victims played a large part.
but thats tied up in a grand jury seal for now .
In other words if Trump cronies did their usual half assed jobs they may be able to rebuild the list.
And, just to be consistent, we have another 30 year old account of something that is supposed to mean something. OMFG stop the presses and get Christine Blasey Ford on the line.
This^^^^^^ has to be the end ......................./S
I don't know what people expect to find. Four different administrations representing both parties have been in power since his crimes first became public. One of the most high powered law firms interviewed victims and did their best to sue all responsible parties on their behalf. It's big victory was settling with Epstein's bank. I think they lost a case against Giuliani. The Prince settled while denying all allegations. No other clients were identified by the victims.
The reality is Epstein and Maxwell most likely simply procured victims for their own purposes. They almost certainly weren't pimps. All the hours of tapes the feds seized likely consist of child pornograpy involving those two and minors.
If there was more to it, the victims would have come forward years ago.