Bloomberg — Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction, arguing she was shielded from prosecution under a deal her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein reached with the government in a separate case.
In her petition, which was provided by her lawyer, Maxwell argued she was covered by terms of a 2007 non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with a US attorney in Florida. Prosecutors agreed not to pursue criminal charges against Epstein or “any potential co-conspirators” in exchange for his guilty plea on state charges he solicited minors to engage in prostitution.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida. During her jury trial in New York, witnesses testified Maxwell lured and groomed underage girls for abuse by Epstein — the disgraced financier who died in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges — and sometimes participated in the assaults herself.
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