The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The high court’s rejection of the case means Epstein’s chief associate has little hope for release from her 20-year sentence, outside of a presidential pardon.
Maxwell, who was found guilty in December 2021 of sex trafficking crimes alleging she facilitated Epstein’s abuse of women and girls, had asked the court to weigh in on the matter.
Her appeal effort claimed that Epstein’s infamous non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in the late 2010s, when the the feds promised not to go after him and his coconspirators, should have barred Manhattan prosecutors from bringing charges against her 13 years later.
“We’re, of course, deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case. But this fight isn’t over. Serious legal and factual issues remain, and we will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that justice is done,” Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, told the Daily News Monday.
This developing story will be updated.
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