The United States Supreme Court has declined to review Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal convictions for sex trafficking, leaving intact her 2021 federal convictions from the Southern District of New York. The Court issued its decision in an unsigned order on Monday morning, with no noted dissents.

To grant review, at least four justices must agree to hear a case. The Court’s denial indicates that the requisite number did not vote in favor of taking up Maxwell’s appeal.

Maxwell’s petition centered on her argument that a non-prosecution agreement entered into between Florida prosecutors and Jeffrey Epstein should have barred her prosecution in New York. That agreement, reached in 2007, shielded Epstein and, she claimed, extended to his alleged co-conspirators.

However, both the federal appeal

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