{"id":4386,"date":"2026-06-10T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/06\/10\/house-panel-to-seek-testimony-from-alan-dershowitz-about-jeffrey-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:06:52","slug":"house-panel-to-seek-testimony-from-alan-dershowitz-about-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"House panel to seek testimony from Alan Dershowitz about Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color:var(--article-border);background-color:var(--article-inner-background)\" class=\"dcr-wqti5a\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1ma2nzf\">\n<div style=\"--grid-area:media\" data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-tr9ye5\">\n<figure id=\"922ebd98-5d8a-410f-839a-0b1b6c84ccce\" class=\"dcr-142siv7\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a man in a suit looks off to the side\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9eb7a609cb7f9441c2fc7fd42ae0f387d93406d9\/476_0_4348_3479\/master\/4348.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"372.06416743330266\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><span class=\"dcr-v822l1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-gup2gr\">\n<div class=\"dcr-fntg6k\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-1xgwz8b\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1os51wo\"><span class=\"dcr-hvsf4t\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Alan Dershowitz was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team that negotiated Epstein\u2019s now-controversial 2008 plea deal.<\/span> Photograph: Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"922ebd98-5d8a-410f-839a-0b1b6c84ccce\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-n4pnam\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1hdkqum\"><span class=\"dcr-hvsf4t\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Alan Dershowitz was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team that negotiated Epstein\u2019s now-controversial 2008 plea deal.<\/span> Photograph: Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:border\" data-gu-name=\"border\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:headline\" data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1jwoxwb\">\n<h1 class=\"dcr-1k1a1x\">House panel to seek testimony from Alan Dershowitz about Jeffrey Epstein<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:standfirst\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-15in7js\">\n<p>Republican who chairs House panel says he based decision on testimony from  Epstein\u2019s longtime assistant Lesley Groff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:body\" data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-pzh79o\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1a4fred\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-ydnaza\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-1c9t5u6\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Representative James Comer, the Republican who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform, announced that he would be asking Alan Dershowitz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>\u2019s former attorney, to appear before the panel as part of its investigation into the late sex offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI am going to ask Alan Dershowitz to come in, we will have questions for him and we will give him an opportunity to come in,\u201d Comer said on Wednesday morning, adding that the decision was based on the testimony of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/jeffrey-epstein-assistant-lesley-groff-testifies\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"> Lesley Groff<\/a>, Epstein\u2019s longtime assistant, who testified before the committee on Tuesday, as well as \u201ca meeting that I had afterwards with several of the Epstein survivors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe will have questions for him and we will give him an opportunity to come in and answer several questions that arose yesterday based on Ms Groff\u2019s testimony and some things that someone of the Epstein survivors said,\u201d Comer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The transcript of Groff\u2019s testimony has not yet been released by the committee. In her opening statement, Groff told the lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Epstein\u2019s crimes while working for him and described her former employer as a \u201cmaster manipulator and deceiver\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7e9979ad-572c-471c-adbd-e9cd20bd0e62\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-4 | 4\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1kyw41h\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-ma29me\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/bill-gates-testimony-jeffrey-epstein\" class=\"dcr-1m887w9\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-ut4tvs\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1h5b6rb\">\n<div class=\"dcr-169d7yv\">Bill Gates tells US House \u2018I have never victimized anyone\u2019 in Epstein testimony<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-eurq8n\">\n<div class=\"dcr-fkf7vq\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dershowitz defended the disgraced financier after he was first arrested and was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team that negotiated Epstein\u2019s now-controversial 2008 plea deal. And in 2014, Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein survivor, alleged that Dershowitz sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager as part of Epstein\u2019s sex-trafficking operation. Dershowitz has strongly denied those claims and has never been charged with any wrongdoing related to Epstein. Giuffre sued Dershowitz in 2019, alleging that he defamed her when denying her claims, but dropped the lawsuit in 2022, and said that she \u201cmay have made a mistake\u201d in accusing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Giuffre<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/26\/virginia-giuffre-suicide-dead-aged-41\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"> died<\/a> in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a telephone interview with the Guardian on Wednesday, Dershowitz said that he had \u201cvolunteered to testify\u201d before the House committee, pointing to recent appearances on NewsMax, in which Dershowitz said on the show that he would be willing to appear before the committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI can present a much more nuanced and calibrated description of the complexity of these things,\u201d the Harvard Law professor told the Guardian. He added: \u201cI\u2019m not a reluctant witness, I wanted to testify, as I said from day one, I want the truth to come out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEverything I did in relation to the Epstein case, I\u2019m proud of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dershowitz also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rnuGuge6dM\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"> pointed out<\/a> that the NewsMax host, Greta Van Susteren, said on her show on Tuesday that she had reached out to Comer\u2019s office to ask about Dershowitz and his \u201cwillingness to testify\u201d and claimed that it was her reaching out as well as his offer to testify that led to Comer requesting his testimony on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In response, a spokesperson from Comer\u2019s office told the Guardian that \u201cthe House oversight committee will speak with anyone who has information about the federal government\u2019s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases and their crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">They added that \u201cyesterday Lesley Groff named, when asked who else should come before the committee, Alan Dershowitz\u201d and said that \u201cChairman Comer also met with survivors yesterday who also stated Dershowitz should be interviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dershowitz told the Guardian that he \u201chardly knew\u201d Groff but said that he \u201csaw her on a couple of occasions sitting behind the desk at Epstein\u2019s office\u201d and said that \u201cshe arranged, I think, perhaps some flights when I was going down there to be his lawyer to speak to the US attorney or the state attorney, but I\u2019ve never had any substantive conversations with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" class=\"dcr-qxqnsy\"><span class=\"dcr-1rq3vad\">Explore more on these topics<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-1dzx48f\">\n<ul class=\"dcr-1xavc9x\">\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">House of Representatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/us-politics\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">US politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/society\/sex-trafficking\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">Sex trafficking<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/tone\/news\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-nu129i\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=House%20panel%20to%20seek%20testimony%20from%20Alan%20Dershowitz%20about%20Jeffrey%20Epstein&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/alan-dershowitz-epstein-house-panel?CMP=share_btn_url\" class=\"dcr-125qj9d\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-zhx6xs\"><a data-link-name=\"meta-syndication-article\" href=\"https:\/\/syndication.theguardian.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2026%2Fjun%2F10%2Falan-dershowitz-epstein-house-panel&amp;type=article&amp;internalpagecode=us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/alan-dershowitz-epstein-house-panel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"Reuse this content\" class=\"dcr-14rjinq\">Reuse this content<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:right-column\" data-gu-name=\"right-column\" class=\"dcr-babllm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-tn16h9\">\n<section class=\"dcr-1hko8ef\"><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team that negotiated Epstein\u2019s now-controversial 2008 plea deal. 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