UPDATE: Subpoena Issued for Ghislaine Maxwell to Testify Before Congress — Here’s When

The House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer, has officially issued a subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell.

She has been ordered to give a deposition from jail at 10 AM on August 11th.

Rep. Comer announced:

🚨 I have issued a subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition to occur at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee on August 11, 2025.

The Department of Justice is cooperating and will help facilitate the deposition at the prison. pic.twitter.com/N0J6Gul37g

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) July 23, 2025

Here’s a closer look at the subpoena:

Rep. Comer acted quickly to issue the subpoena, after a motion introduced by Rep. Tim Burchett was approved by the committee yesterday.

A House Oversight Committee press release reads:

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued a subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition to occur at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee on August 11, 2025. The Department of Justice is cooperating and will help facilitate the deposition at the prison. Yesterday, Representative Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) made a motion for Chairman Comer to subpoena Ms. Maxwell for a deposition at the Government Operations Subcommittee hearing. The motion was adopted by voice vote.

“The facts and circumstances surrounding both your and Mr. Epstein’s cases have received immense public interest and scrutiny. At the outset of the 119th Congress, on February 11, 2025, the Committee and the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting a briefing regarding documents in the Department’s possession regarding ‘the investigation into and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.’ On May 8, the Task Force sent another letter to the Department requesting the public release of ‘the entirety of the Epstein files’ and a briefing regarding the release of these files,” wrote Chairman Comer.

On July 13, The Daily Mail reported that Maxwell was willing to speak with Congress regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal activities. On July 17, President Donald Trump announced that he had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce all pertinent grand jury testimony related to the case. The next day, Attorney General Bondi announced that a motion had been filed. She also stated that the Department of Justice would seek to speak with Maxwell about these horrific crimes.

“While the Justice Department undertakes efforts to uncover and publicly disclose additional information related to your and Mr. Epstein’s cases, it is imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and specifically its handling of the investigation and prosecution of you and Mr. Epstein.  In particular, the Committee seeks your testimony to inform the consideration of potential legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking and reform the use of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations,” continued Chairman Comer.

As for Ghislaine, she said she is ready and willing to expose everything she knows.

Let’s hope she is telling the truth.

Nobody in the world knows more about what happened on that island and those poor children — or who was involved — than her.

This could be very big.