Ghislaine Maxwell told House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Tuesday that she is willing to answer lawmakers’ questions about Jeffrey Epstein, if Congress meets a series of conditions that include a formal grant of immunity and a deposition held outside prison walls.

At the same time, the imprisoned British socialite is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction, arguing that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement Epstein struck in Florida shields “any potential co-conspirators” nationwide.

In a three-page letter dated July 29, Maxwell’s lawyers said their initial plan was to invoke the Fifth Amendment but that she would now “find a way to cooperate” if Congress adopts safeguards they call essential for “a fair and safe path forward.”
Key demands laid out in the letter and echoed in press statements include:

• Full immunity from further criminal exposure.
• A deposition conducted somewhere other than the Tallahassee prison where she is serving a 20-year sentence.
• Advance delivery of the committee’s questions to allow her team to sift through “millions of pages” of documents.
• Scheduling after the Supreme Court rules on her appeal and after she files an anticipated federal habeas petition.

The Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Maxwell for an August 11 deposition but has already signaled it will not grant immunity.

Maxwell’s certiorari petition, filed April 10 and supplemented by a reply brief on Monday, asks the justices to decide whether Epstein’s 2007 plea deal—brokered by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida—binds federal prosecutors everywhere.
Her lawyers say the agreement promised that “the United States” would not pursue charges against “any potential co-conspirators,” language they contend should have barred the Southern District of New York from indicting her. They cite a split among federal appeals courts on whether such district-based promises apply nationwide, calling the issue “an acknowledged conflict” that only the high court can resolve.

The Justice Department rejects that reading, insisting the Florida bargain applied only locally and did not even mention Maxwell. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Court the dispute is “of limited importance” because plea agreements can be drafted to avoid ambiguity.
If four justices vote to grant review when they meet in late September, oral argument could come this fall, with a decision by June 2026.

Although the cert petition focuses on the non-prosecution clause, Maxwell has long argued that her trial was tainted by a juror’s failure to disclose his own childhood sexual abuse during voir dire—a point her lawyers say undermines the fairness of the verdict. The Second Circuit rejected that claim last year, but her planned habeas filing is expected to revisit it, along with allegations that Epstein’s death turned her into a “convenient scapegoat,” as the congressional letter puts it.

Maxwell is imprisoned for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein run a decade-long sex-trafficking ring that targeted vulnerable teenage girls. Prosecutors said that between 1994 and 2004 she befriended minors, groomed them with gifts and promises, and then facilitated, and at times participated in, sexual abuse at Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida, and New Mexico. A federal grand jury therefore charged her with enticement, transporting a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking of a minor, and three related conspiracy counts. She pleaded not guilty after her July 2020 arrest, but remained behind bars as a flight risk.

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.