The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell , the imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein .

On Monday (early Tuesday AEDT), the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid 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.

Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a New York financier.

She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minim

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