The committee is investigating the case surrounding Epstein, who took his own life in a prison cell in New York in 2019 while awaiting trial. According to American authorities, he sexually exploited minors hundreds of times over more than a decade.
The hearings are, according to the committee, "linked to the heinous crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein" and in addition to the Clinton couple, several named former high-ranking officials within the Justice Department and the FBI are called to participate.
Associated with Epstein
Like, among others, President Donald Trump, it has been previously known that Bill Clinton has associated with Epstein. According to a previous statement from the former president, he cut off contact with Epstein a decade before he was arrested in 2019.
In the summons to the hearing, the committee's chairman James Comer writes that Bill Clinton has acknowledged that he flew on Epstein's private plane on four different occasions in 2002 and 2003.
"You are also alleged to have been close to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's accomplice, and participated in an intimate dinner with her in 2014, three years after reports of her involvement in Epstein's abuse of minor victims were made public," Comer continues.
Maxwell was questioned
Epstein's accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her involvement, was called to a hearing last month, but it has not been disclosed what she said.
Earlier this year, the US Justice Department announced that they will not release any more documents from the Epstein investigation, something that has caused great upset in the country.
In order to quell democratic attempts to debate and vote on publishing classified documents in the investigation, the House of Representatives also took a summer break earlier than planned, following a decision from the Republican Speaker Mike Johnson.
