US supreme court declines to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of sex trafficking conviction

The US supreme court has declined to hear an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell of her sex trafficking conviction.

Maxwell in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and related crimes.

Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Donald Trump’s administration has spent much of his second presidency so far struggling to contain a scandal over his past friendship with Epstein.

In part, Trump’s White House has failed to fulfill a promise to release all of the federal government’s documentation on Epstein. He has also made it a point to say he’s “allowed” to give Maxwell a pardon or commute her sentence under his presidential powers – although he has also maintained “it’s something I have not thought about”.

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