Members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee are scheduled to question former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday as part of their investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The closed-door interview, which will be videotaped, is set to take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons have a house. The committee will meet with former President Bill Clinton the next day for a similar deposition.

The in-person interviews come after months of bitter back-and-forth between the former first couple and the committee, which at one point threatened to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena it issued in August.

The committee initially scheduled their depositions for October. Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has accused them of having given the panel the runaround since then.

The Clintons had volunteered to testify at a public hearing, but Comer said the committee’s practice is to conduct closed-door interviews with witnesses before it holds hearings.

The Clintons have repeatedly denied wrongdoing related to Epstein and have not been accused of any crimes in connection with him.

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee who lost the presidential election to Donald Trump in 2016, has said they have little information to offer the panel about Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 as he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. She has accused the committee of using her and her husband to try to distract from Trump’s ties to Epstein.

“Other witnesses were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that,” she told the BBC in an interview last week. “Why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President Trump. This is not complicated.”

Undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell were released in December in the first tranche of documents made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a 2025 law that requires the Justice Department to make public its investigative files relating to Epstein and Maxwell.

It’s unclear where the photos were taken. Bill Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, has said he traveled on Epstein’s plane four times in 2002 and 2003 on trips for his Clinton Foundation.

It’s unclear whether Hillary Clinton, who did not go on those trips, ever met Epstein, who pleaded guilty in Florida to a state charge of soliciting a minor in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She told the BBC this month that she does not believe she met him.

Hillary Clinton did, however, know Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of federal sex trafficking charges, including conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

In an unusual interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, Maxwell said that “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend,” and that she was the one who asked Epstein to let Bill Clinton and other foundation members and guests use his plane in 2002.

It’s unclear when Maxwell first met the former president. She said she was introduced to him by a mutual friend after he left office in 2001. She said she met Hillary Clinton at some point in either Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, and “I went to the house in Chappaqua a few times.”

Maxwell did not say when those trips were. She told Blanche that Bill Clinton was “very close” friends with billionaire Ted Waitt, whom she said she dated from 2003 to 2010.

Maxwell and Waitt both attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010. Maxwell was also spotted at a 2013 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City, years after she had been publicly accused in a civil suit of helping Epstein groom and sexually abuse minors.

It’s unclear when she last saw or communicated with Hillary Clinton.

In her BBC interview, the former secretary of state said that she’d met Maxwell on “a few occasions” and that “thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative.”

In her interview with Blanche, Maxwell was asked when she had last gone on a trip with or seen Bill Clinton.

“It was in — was late 2000 and, I don’t know, ’16, ’17, ’18, something in — it was in Los Angeles,” she said. “I think he was hosting something or he was at an event and I was in L.A. and I had dinner with him.”

In a sworn declaration sent to the Oversight Committee last month and obtained by NBC News, Bill Clinton said, “I have no recollection of when I first met Ms. Maxwell, though I believe she was working for Mr. Epstein at the time.” He added that she “later began a personal relationship with a mutual friend.”

“I have no recollection of exactly when I last saw her, but it was many years ago,” Bill Clinton said in the declaration, which was first reported by The New York Times.

A separate declaration from Hillary Clinton used the same language about Maxwell, and both Clintons said they had “no personal knowledge” of either Epstein’s or Maxwell’s “criminal activities.”

Maxwell told Blanche that she never saw Bill Clinton or Trump doing anything inappropriate.

After her interview with Blanche, a former Trump attorney, Maxwell was transferred from a prison in Florida to a lower, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.