The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell , the former British socialite serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking related to the abuse of underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein .

The decision comes as the Trump administration remains the focus of criticism for refusing to release investigative files about Epstein and Maxwell despite prior promises to make those documents public.

The Supreme Court did not indicate how many of its nine justices, if any, would have granted Maxwell's request to hear her appeal.

Maxwell's attorneys argued to the court that she should not have been prosecuted at all by federal authorities in New York.

They cited a non-prosecution agreement Epstein obtained from the U.S Attorney's Office for the South

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