By Andrew Chung

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction for helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, steering clear of a case that continues to hound President Donald Trump and his administration.

The justices turned away an appeal by Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein’s former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2021 by a jury in New York on charges including sex trafficking of a minor. By doing so, the justices let stand a lower court’s decision upholding Maxwell’s conviction.

Maxwell’s lawyers contend that her conviction was invalid because a non-prosecution and plea agreement that federal prose

See Full Page