WASHINGTON — Former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over an investigation into late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a spokesperson announced Monday.
“The former President and former Secretary of State will be there,” said Angel Urena, a spokesperson for Bill Clinton, in response to a post by the committee on the social platform X. “They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.”
The committee, in its post, accused the Clintons of “defying lawful subpoenas” and “trying to dodge contempt by requesting special treatment.”
According to a New York Times report, in an email sent Monday evening to committee chair James Comer, attorneys for the Clintons said their clients would “appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates,” urging the House not to proceed with a contempt vote scheduled for Wednesday.
The report said the development signaled that the Clintons were “capitulating to the demands of its Republican chairman” just days before the House was expected to vote on holding them in criminal contempt of Congress.
In a public letter to Comer dated Jan 13, the Clintons said they would not comply with a congressional subpoena requiring their testimony, calling it “legally invalid.” They also said they had already provided the committee with all information in their possession related to the Epstein case.
On Jan 21, the committee voted to advance a motion to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress and referred it to the full House for a vote.
Epstein maintained close ties with numerous prominent figures in US political and business circles. He died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.
Documents withdrawn
Meanwhile, the DOJ said Monday that it had withdrawn certain documents related to late financier Jeffrey Epstein, after victims complained that sensitive information had been released due to redaction failures.
In a letter filed to federal judges Monday, the department said it had taken down “several thousand documents and media” from its website that “may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human error.”
The development came after lawyers for Epstein’s victims asked the judges late Sunday to urgently order that the DOJ site be taken down because of redaction failures exposing personal information. The lawyers said that the lives of nearly 100 individual survivors “have been turned upside down by the DOJ’s latest release.”
The DOJ on Friday released a new batch of files on Jeffrey Epstein — more than 3 million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in total — over a month after a congressional deadline for the release of all related files.
US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told a press conference that with the latest release, the department produced approximately 3.5 million pages in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
On Nov 18, 2025, Congress passed the bill by an overwhelming majority, requiring the DOJ to make public files related to the Epstein case by Dec 19.
On Dec 23, 2025, the department released a new batch of nearly 30,000 pages of Epstein-related documents, many of which involved Trump. The department later said that some of the content in the files was “untrue”.