The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her conviction as Jeffrey Epstein’s main accomplice in his sex trafficking case, leaving a pardon from President Donald Trump as the ex-socialite’s only chance for freedom.

On the first day of their new term, the justices declined without comment to take up Maxwell’s claim that prosecutors should have been bound by a sweetheart deal made by a Florida federal prosecutor not to prosecute Epstein or his alleged co-conspirators in exchange for a guilty plea to state charges.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term. The ruling means her only chance of winning release anytime soon would be if Trump, her former friend from Palm Beach, Florida, social circles, pardons her or commutes her sentence, a decision that would likely en

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