Ghislaine Maxwell 's appeal to her criminal conviction in relation to recruiting and grooming underage girls for sexual abuse by late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday (October 6), keeping her conviction on three counts and 20-year prison sentence in place, NBC News reports.

Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus , argued that an agreement Epstein made with prosecutors in Florida in which a then-U.S. attorney vowed not to prosecute him or his co-conspirators, should've applied to one of the three counts Maxwell faced in her own case prosecuted in New York.

"We’re, of course, deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case," Markus said in a statement obtained by NBC News .

"But this fight isn’

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