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Edward Helmore

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

courtroom sketch of a woman in court
Ghislaine Maxwell sits at the defense table in court in New York on 8 March 2022. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

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

The decision brings an end to Maxwell’s legal effort to have her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges overturned – and leaves presidential clemency as her only option for early release from a 20-year prison sentence handed to her in 2022.

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