Maxwell has argued she was shielded from charges by a non-prosecution agreement former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein reached with federal prosecutors in 2007

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction for grooming teenage girls who were abused by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The 63-year-old British socialite and former Epstein girlfriend is serving a 20-year prison term. Maxwell argued she was shielded from the charges by language in a non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached in 2007 with federal prosecutors in Florida. She was indicted by federal prosecutors in New York in 2020.

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