‘Interest in this is not going away': House Oversight Committee to summon Ghislaine Maxwell
'Epstein's former lawyer, one of his lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, has called her the Rosetta Stone, because she knows everything,' Ms Gada told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
'The interest in this is not going away; there's massive interest in it across the electorate, but especially among the Republican base.'
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