The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider throwing out the 2021 sex-trafficking conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was found guilty of conspiring with and aiding Epstein in his sexual abuse of underage girls. She was thrust back into the spotlight this summer as the Trump administration faced intense pressure to release new information about the decade-long scheme.

Her appeal to the justices turned on a 2007 nonprosecution agreement Epstein signed with federal prosecutors, which she claimed her conviction violated.

The deal let Epstein avoid federal charges for pleading guilty to state-level sex crimes in Florida and serving 18 moths in prison. It also included an u

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