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

Ghislaine Maxwell appeal rejected

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On 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.

As is their custom, the justices did not explain why they turned away the appeal.

Trump’s Republican administration had urged the high court to stay out of the case.

The other side:

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.

They contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Mi

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