(TNS) The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to appeal her conviction for trafficking teenage girls and young women to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

The nation’s high court denied review of Maxwell’s 2021 conviction on five counts without any of the justices dissenting.

The decision means Epstein’s right hand and the only person criminally tried for aiding the late financier’s extensive abuse has little hope for release from her 20-year sentence, outside of a presidential pardon.

She had asked the court to review her conviction after the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals refused last year to throw it out on the basis that she should have been protected from prosecution per the terms of the disgraced sweetheart deal the Justice

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