Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Appeal in Epstein Case

The appeal centered on whether the Florida agreement applied only within that judicial district or extended to federal prosecutors nationwide. The Justice Department urged the Court to deny Maxwell’s petition, with Solicitor General D. John Sauer noting that there was no evidence the deal was ever authorized to cover other districts. Maxwell was convicted in 2022 of recruiting and grooming girls as young as 14 for Epstein’s sexual exploitation. Prosecutors said she befriended victims and sometimes was present during the assaults. Her conviction followed renewed public scrutiny of Epstein’s trafficking network, which collapsed after his death in a New York jail in 2019—officially ruled a suicide despite persistent conspiracy theories.

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