Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking teenage girls to Jeffrey Epstein - US Federal Bureau of Prisons Ghislaine Maxwell has agreed to appear before a congressional committee investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile. However, she plans to “plead the fifth,” meaning that she will invoke her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and will not share any information with those sitting on the House oversight committee, her lawyer said. She will appear on Feb 9.