Hillary Clinton sits for House deposition on Jeffrey Epstein

Hillary Clinton is scheduled to sit for a videotaped deposition on Thursday with the Republican-led House Oversight Committee as part of its inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein, according to NBC News. The closed-door interview is set for Chappaqua, New York, followed on Friday by a similar deposition with former President Bill Clinton.

The depositions follow months of procedural conflict between the committee and the Clintons, including an August subpoena and a threatened contempt vote. Committee chair James Comer has argued the panel’s standard practice is to take closed-door testimony before any public hearing, while the Clintons had offered to testify publicly or provide written statements.

The Oversight investigation is running in parallel with the Justice Department’s mandated document releases under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires federal investigative files relating to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to be made public. NBC notes that an initial tranche released in December included undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and Maxwell. Clinton’s spokesperson has said the former president flew on Epstein’s plane four times in 2002 and 2003 on trips connected to Clinton Foundation work.

The committee’s interest is not limited to travel logs and photographs. The question for lawmakers is how a well-connected defendant repeatedly reduced legal risk in a system that formally treats cases as individual events. Epstein’s 2008 Florida plea deal, his subsequent social reintegration, and the long lag before the 2019 federal case have become a case study in how money, access and high-status relationships can function as a substitute for transparency.

Hillary Clinton has said she has little information to offer the committee and has framed the inquiry as partisan theatre aimed at diverting attention from President Donald Trump’s own ties to Epstein. Neither of the Clintons has been charged with wrongdoing related to Epstein, and NBC reports they have repeatedly denied any misconduct.

Maxwell, meanwhile, remains the only person convicted in federal court for facilitating Epstein’s trafficking network. In an interview last year with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell described Bill Clinton as her friend rather than Epstein’s, and said she was the one who asked Epstein to make his plane available for Clinton and others in 2002. She also said she met Hillary Clinton and visited the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, without specifying dates.

The Oversight Committee’s depositions will add another layer of recorded testimony to a case that has already generated years of public allegations, selective document releases and institutional finger-pointing. The committee will be taking sworn answers from two of the most politically connected witnesses it can compel.

The deposition is scheduled to take place in Chappaqua, the same town where the Clintons have kept a home since leaving the White House.