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Ghislaine Maxwell, jailed Epstein accomplice, appeals case to US Supreme Court

  • Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison, has appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, arguing she was covered by a non-prosecution agreement.
  • A federal appeals court rejected Maxwell's argument that Epstein's non-prosecution agreement barred her prosecution in New York.
  • Her lawyers have requested a review of her trial based on a past non-prosecution agreement arranged in 2007 between Epstein and Florida prosecutors.
  • Maxwell has maintained her innocence and stated that victims should blame US authorities for Jeffrey Epstein's death, as mentioned in a January 2023 interview.
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British socialité lawyers Ghislaine Maxwell filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his 2021 sexual trafficking conviction, arguing that he was protected by a non-prosecution agreement that his ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein reached with the government in a previous case. In his petition, Maxwell claimed that it was covered by the terms of a 2007 agreement between Epstein and a federal prosecutor in Florida. According to this agree…

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abc News broke the news in United States on Friday, April 11, 2025.
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