Ghislaine Maxwell has said she will testify freely to Congress if Donald Trump frees her from jail.

Lawyers for Maxwell, 63, agreed that she would appear before the House Oversight Committee, as long as she could see what questions they planned to ask her about her links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, in advance.

She also asked that she receive legal immunity for any future convictions.

Her lawyer requested that Maxwell’s questioning take place after the Supreme Court rules on her appeal for her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.

Alternatively, her lawyer said, she would speak “freely and openly” to Congress right now if the president grants her clemency.

Maxwell was last week subpoenaed to answer questions before Congress about her late boyfriend, for whom she was convicted of sex trafficking underage girls, meaning she would have been forced to appear in the coming months, anyway.