The US Supreme Court on Monday (October 6) declined to hear British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal seeking to overturn her 2021 conviction for aiding the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing teenage girls. By rejecting the appeal , the justices left intact a lower court ruling upholding Maxwell’s 20-year prison sentence.

Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend , was arrested in 2020 and found guilty by a New York jury in 2021 on charges including sex trafficking of minors. Her lawyers argued that her prosecution was invalid, citing a 2007 non-prosecution and plea agreement that federal prosecutors made with Epstein in Florida, which they claimed also shielded his associates from criminal liability.

Background of Maxwell and Epstein case

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