Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Appeal in Epstein Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom teenage girls for sexual abuse. This decision leaves her 20-year prison sentence and three felony convictions intact, according to NBC News. Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, argued that a 2007 nonprosecution agreement between Epstein and then–U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta in Florida should have protected her from one of the charges in her New York trial. Markus said the defense was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case but vowed to continue fighting, insisting that “serious legal and factual issues remain.”

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