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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s Appeal
Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate and longtime friend insisted that a secret agreement between the sex-abuse financier and federal prosecutors should have protected her from prosecution.
Ghislaine Maxwell appeal rejected by Superme Court on Monday, marking the end of her legal bid to overturn her conviction. As a result, Maxwell’s only remaining stopgap for early release may be a amnesty or act of leniency from Donald Trump, who formerly holidayed and mingled in the same high society circles in Florida and New York.
Supreme Court Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20- time civil judgment after being set up shamefaced in 2021 of helping Epstein in his coitus crimes. Epstein failed in 2019 while awaiting trial on coitus- trafficking charges. Civil prosecutors have roundly opposed Maxwell’s release, and the judges held a “ long conference ” last week — a tradition in which the nine- member bench meets before the new term starts to elect high- profile court cases 2025 they wish to add to their program.
The crimes and Epstein’s death have closed part of the case, but public interest in the story, which also looms over Mr. Trump, has not. That attention has spiked in recent months after the Trump administration refused to release full FBI files on the Epstein-Maxwell investigation.
Maxwell submitted her petition to Supreme Court news in April, in which she sought to have her conviction overturned. She based her petition on a 2008 non-prosecution agreement between Epstein and federal prosecutors in Florida.
In her filing, Maxwell said that Epstein had entered into a plea deal in June 2008 to plead guilty to state charges in Florida. In return, federal prosecutors agreed to forgo pursuing their own criminal charges in the US court rulings 2025. Importantly, Ghislaine Maxwell legal update also stated that federal prosecutors would not “bring charges against potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
Maxwell’s filing argued that her 2020 federal indictment violated that agreement, saying the charges should never have been brought. The government has argued that the deal with Epstein did not extend to Maxwell since the deal was negotiated by Florida prosecutors and she was charged in New York.
