Members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee are set to question former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday as part of their ongoing investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The closed-door, videotaped deposition is scheduled to take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons maintain a residence. Former President Bill Clinton is expected to sit for a similar interview the following day.
The sessions follow months of contentious exchanges between the committee and the former first couple. At one point, lawmakers threatened to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress after they did not comply with a subpoena issued in August. Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, has accused them of delaying the process after depositions initially scheduled for October were postponed.
The Clintons had offered to testify publicly at a hearing, but Comer said the committee’s standard procedure is to conduct private depositions before any public testimony.
Neither Hillary nor Bill Clinton has been accused of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein, and both have repeatedly denied any improper conduct.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee defeated by Donald Trump in 2016, has said she and her husband have little relevant information about Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. In a recent interview with the BBC, she accused the committee of attempting to shift focus away from Trump’s own past associations with Epstein.
“Other witnesses were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that,” she said. “Why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President Trump. This is not complicated.”
In December, previously unreleased photographs showing Bill Clinton with Epstein and Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell were made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a 2025 law requiring the Justice Department to release investigative materials related to Epstein and Maxwell. The images were undated, and it remains unclear where they were taken.
A spokesperson for Bill Clinton, Angel Ureña, has said the former president traveled on Epstein’s private plane four times in 2002 and 2003 for trips connected to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton did not accompany him on those flights and has said she does not believe she ever met Epstein, who pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to a state charge involving the solicitation of a minor and served 18 months in prison.
Hillary Clinton did, however, acknowledge knowing Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on federal sex trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year sentence.
In a separate interview last year with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell stated that Bill Clinton was her friend rather than Epstein’s and that she had arranged for Clinton and foundation associates to use Epstein’s plane in 2002. Maxwell said she met the former president through a mutual acquaintance after he left office and claimed to have met Hillary Clinton at social gatherings in Massachusetts, as well as at the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua.
The upcoming depositions mark the latest chapter in the committee’s high-profile probe, which continues to examine connections between prominent public figures and Epstein’s criminal network.
