Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn conviction rejected by Supreme Court

(NewsNation) — The Supreme Court denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction on Monday.

Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator was convicted in 2021 for her part in the sex trafficking of minor females for 20 years in federal prison after her arrest in Manhattan in 2019.

In April 2025, her attorney, David Oscar Markus, wrote in their petition to the Supreme Court “In this case, the government made a written promise that Epstein’s co-conspirators would not be prosecuted by the United States, and Maxwell was in fact prosecuted as a co-conspirator of Epstein by the United States. 

He continued, “The only question is whether the government’s promise that the ‘United States’ would not prosecute her was enforceable against the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York, or only against the Southern District of Florida.”

Maxwell’s legal team contended that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement made in Miami by federal prosecutors should have prevented their client from being tried in any jurisdiction in the U.S.

However, the justices declined to hear Maxwell’s case without citing a reason; a common practice for the United States' highest court.

In August, the Department of Justice released 16 audio recordings and four transcripts from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s meetings with the imprisoned Maxwell on July 24 and 25.

Shortly after Maxwell’s meeting with Blanche she was moved to a minimum security prison, Federal Prison Camp Bryan, in Texas. 

Jeffrey Epstein died from suicide in his prison cell in August 2019 awaiting his hearing from sex trafficking minors.