Alan Dershowitz, former Epstein attorney, wants Ghislaine Maxwell to testify before Congress

Alan Dershowitz, former attorney for the late Jeffrey Epstein, says former Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should testify before Congress about what she knew about his sex-trafficking scheme, including the names of his clients.

“She is the Rosetta Stone,” Mr. Dershowitz said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She arranged every single trip with everybody. She knows everything.”

Facing blowback from his MAGA base over the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein case, President Trump directed Attorney General Pam Pondi last week to produce pertinent grand jury testimony on the Epstein case, subject to court approval.

Mr. Dershowitz said that those court documents are “narrowly tailored” and that separate information now under seal in a New York federal court and testimony from Maxwell, who is serving a federal prison sentence for her role in the sex trafficking scheme, would be more telling.

He said Maxwell should be compelled to testify.

“I am told that she would actually be willing to testify and there would be no reason for her to withhold information,” Mr. Dershowitz said.

Mr. Trump posted Saturday on social media that even if the courts agree to release all the grand jury testimony about Epstein, his critics still wouldn’t be satisfied.

“With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request,” Mr. Trump posted. “It will always be more, more, more. MAGA!” 

Sen. Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania Republican, said he shares Mr. Trump’s frustration over how the furor over the Epstein files is taking attention away from how the Trump administration has secured the southern border and extended tax cuts.

“This is distracting from the focus on the things the American people voted for in 2024,” Mr. McCormick said on “Fox News Sunday.”

A CBS News/YouGov survey released Sunday showed that 89% of U.S. adults want the Department of Justice to release all the Epstein files.

Epstein, a financier and convicted sex offender, died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

His death has generated conspiracy theories about whether he was killed and whether he had kept a client list that could be used to blackmail high-profile people. 

The Justice Department this month announced that it was closing the investigation and that it found “no incriminating ‘client list.’”

“There was also no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions,” the DOJ memo said. “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

The department stated that it would not release more files due to their graphic nature.

Mr. Dershowitz said the combination of Maxwell’s testimony and the release of pre-trial discovery and depositions from the cases currently sealed in federal court would fill in a lot of gaps and help determine whether there was indeed a client list.

“The information that hasn’t been requested is going to be far more informative and far more relevant than the grand jury information,” he said of the Trump administration’s latest effort.