The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal request from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, over her criminal conviction.
Maxwell was sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in prison after being convicted in December 2021 on sex trafficking charges.
Her lawyers argued she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
The justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump’s administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein’s case.
Maxwell was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
As usual, the justices on the highest court in the US did not explain why they turned down the appeal.
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