The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction for grooming teenage girls who were abused by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The 63-year-old British socialite and former Epstein girlfriend is serving a 20-year prison term. Maxwell argued she was shielded from the charges by language in a non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached in 2007 with federal prosecutors in Florida. She was indicted by federal prosecutors in New York in 2020.

“We’re, of course, deeply disappointed,” her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said in a statement. “But this fight isn’t over. Serious legal and factual issues remain, and we will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that justice is done.”

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