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Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to have her sex trafficking conviction was rejected by the Supreme Court
The court declined to hear Maxwell's appeal
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, is currently serving a 20-year sentence following her 2021 conviction
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction after she claimed she should have been given immunity as part of Jeffrey Epstein's controversial deal with federal prosecutors.
The justices denied Maxwell's petition to the court without giving a reason in its list of orders published on Monday, Oct. 6.
Maxwell was the longtime co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York City jail in 2019.
Maxwell's attorneys had previously written in a Supreme