The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 6 decided not to take up an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, who had asked the justices to toss her sex-trafficking convictions.
Maxwell was an associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in custody in 2019 while under indictment for sex trafficking.
Maxwell had argued in the current case that the federal government violated an immunity deal when it prosecuted her.
The Supreme Court denied the petition in Maxwell v. United States in an unsigned order on Oct. 6, its first day in session after the summer recess. No justices dissented.
Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 in New York on five counts of sex trafficking, including conspiracy to traffic minors. In June 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison….