Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and ex-girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, pleaded with the Supreme Court on Monday to consider her appeal and overturn her conviction, claiming she was covered by a plea agreement Epstein made with federal attorneys that shielded her from prosecution.
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2022 after being convicted of participating in a yearslong scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
The brief filed Monday with the Supreme Court by Maxwell’s attorneys, the husband-and-wife team of David and Mona Markus, is a reply to the government’s response to her initial appeal in April.
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