Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have postponed their scheduled depositions before the House Oversight Committee as part of the panel’s ongoing investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, according to congressional officials.
A spokesperson for the committee confirmed Monday that neither Clinton appeared on their originally scheduled dates. Hillary Clinton had been expected to testify last week, while Bill Clinton was slated to sit for questioning on Tuesday.
“The deposition won’t occur tomorrow,” the spokesperson told The New York Post, adding that the committee is “having conversations with the Clintons’ attorney to accommodate their schedules.” No new dates have been announced.
The subpoenas were issued in early August by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) as part of the committee’s broader review of Epstein’s prosecution history, Maxwell’s conviction, and the federal government’s management of related investigations. Comer has said the panel intends to examine potential lapses in the Justice Department’s oversight of Epstein’s activities and connections to high-profile individuals.
“Everybody in America wants to know what went on at Epstein Island,” Comer said during an interview with Newsmax in August, referring to Epstein’s private estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands. “We’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he’s a prime subject to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee.”
Comer, who has chaired the committee since January 2023, described the subpoenas as among “the most challenging” of his tenure, noting that Democrats joined Republicans in approving the measure.
Epstein, a financier and convicted sex offender, was arrested in July 2019 on federal child sex trafficking charges. He died in a Manhattan jail the following month while awaiting trial. Federal prosecutors later described his death as suicide. Maxwell, his longtime associate, was convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Epstein’s association with numerous influential figures—including business leaders, politicians, and academics—has been the subject of renewed congressional scrutiny. According to White House visitor logs released in 2016, Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995. Records also show that he donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association in 1993.
Bill Clinton has acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s private jet, sometimes referred to as the “Lolita Express,” multiple times in connection with his work for the Clinton Foundation and its global initiatives.
However, the former president has consistently denied visiting Epstein’s private island or having knowledge of any criminal activity.
“I wish I had never met him,” Clinton wrote in his 2024 memoir
In an interview earlier this year with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell said her relationship with the Clintons was primarily through her own acquaintance with the former president. “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend,” she said. “President Clinton liked me, and we got along terribly well. But I never saw that warmth with Mr. Epstein.”
Maxwell also told Blanche that Bill Clinton “absolutely never” visited Epstein’s island.
The House Oversight Committee’s inquiry is one of several ongoing reviews into how federal law enforcement handled Epstein’s activities and associates before his death.
Comer has said the panel is examining whether officials within the Justice Department or FBI “interfered, ignored, or downplayed evidence” that could have led to additional prosecutions.
While the Clintons are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing, their testimonies are expected to address the extent of their interactions with Epstein and Maxwell, as well as any potential awareness of his conduct during and after Bill Clinton’s presidency.
The committee has not released a full witness list for upcoming depositions but has indicated that additional subpoenas could follow.
“We are going to get answers,” Comer said last month. “This investigation is about accountability and transparency for the American people.”
They told everyone it would be private — “just them, no pressure.” But the truth was: nothing about Taylor Swift’s engagement was ever going to be small.
Not when the groom is Travis Kelce, NFL royalty. Not when the bride is the most written-about woman in the world. And certainly not when her mother, Andrea Swift, was quietly flown in to London two days earlier… with no public record, no media trail, and no one really asking why.
It wasn’t for logistics. It wasn’t even to help Taylor pick a dress.
According to a family friend, Taylor had only one request that week:
“I need my mom there — not for the photos. For me.”
They spent the day before the proposal alone in the flat Taylor rented just outside Kensington Gardens. No stylists. No assistants. Just two women who’d been through decades of stages, stadiums, sickness, and survival — now sitting on a sofa, talking about a future that neither one wanted to rush.
Andrea had seen it all: the heartbreaks that went public, the ones that didn’t. The panic attacks backstage. The Grammy nights. The nights after. She knew the difference between romance and rehearsal. And she could read Taylor’s voice in a way no one else could.
That morning, the voice had changed.
“It’s not about the ring, Mama. I just… I know now.”
Andrea didn’t say much. But she packed her things and stood by the car when it was time to go.
When Travis knelt down in the garden, Taylor covered her mouth — the way people do when they’re caught between disbelief and the edge of tears.
But Andrea Swift didn’t move.
She stood at the edge of the hydrangea hedge, wrapped in a muted navy coat, one hand gripping the strap of her purse, the other folded across her chest. Her face wasn’t smiling. Her eyes weren’t crying. But something about her stillness told a deeper story than either.
Observers who were present — mainly staff and one trusted photographer — later said the energy around Andrea was “still, but tight.”
One of them described it this way:
“Everyone else leaned in. Andrea stayed back. Not distant — just rooted. Like she needed to be there, but not be part of the moment.”
And when the ring went on Taylor’s finger, she didn’t look down.
She looked up — past Travis, past the camera. She looked for her mother.
What she saw was the same woman who held her hand before her first school performance, who rubbed her back in the hospital waiting room during chemo. But this time, there was no nod. No smile. Just a soft narrowing of the eyes. And Taylor, for a half-second, froze.
That second wasn’t caught in the main photos. But it was seen. And for the people who know the Swifts, it meant more than any diamond.
She didn’t cry. She didn’t speak. But the way she looked at Taylor… said everything.
Some say she saw her daughter’s joy. Others say she saw something else — something only a mother could feel. The moment passed in seconds, but the meaning may last a lifetime.
After the proposal, when the cameras were off and the garden started to empty, Taylor walked over and wrapped both arms around Andrea from behind. They didn’t speak for nearly a minute.
Someone nearby overheard Taylor whisper:
“I saw your face. Was it… too fast?”
Andrea’s reply was as soft as it was sharp:
“No, baby. It was just real.”
Those six words stayed with Taylor the rest of the day.
Because no matter how extravagant the gesture, no matter how global the headlines, there is only one woman who can still remind her what “real” feels like. And in that moment, Taylor wasn’t a pop icon. She wasn’t the girl on every screen.
She was just a daughter, standing beside the only person who remembers the world before all this began.
Friends close to the family say Andrea’s quiet reaction wasn’t hesitation — it was recognition. The kind that only mothers understand. A flash of memory, of fear, of pride. A knowing that your child no longer belongs only to you.
But there’s something else. A private line, never meant to be quoted — but too powerful not to share. One source claims that weeks earlier, in a rare late-night conversation, Taylor had told Andrea:
“If I ever get engaged, I’ll only say yes if I see you smiling first.”
And that’s the twist no one expected.
Because in the garden… Andrea didn’t smile.
Not because she wasn’t happy. But because some moments are too big to fit inside a smile.
Now fans are asking: was it blessing, hesitation, or something deeper?
Whatever it was, one thing is certain — the real engagement didn’t happen when Travis opened the box.
It happened the moment Taylor looked into her mother’s eyes…
…and decided to say yes anyway.