From NBC News: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge to her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.
The decision means that Maxwell’s conviction on three counts and her 20-year criminal sentence remain in place. The case was one in a list of dozens of appeals that piled up in recent months that the justices rejected as they started a new nine-month court term.
Maxwell lawyer David Oscar Markus argued in court papers that an agreement Epstein made with the then-U.S. attorney in the southern district of Florida, Alex Acosta, not to prosecute him or potential co-conspirators should apply to one of the three counts in her case, which was prosecuted in New York.
At issue in Maxwell’s appeal was whether the terms of a so-called nonprosecution agreement apply only in the district where it was negotiated or also bind federal prosecutors nationwide.
Maxwell, 63, filed a petition with the Supreme Court in April, asking justices to overturn her conviction. She argued that prosecutors in Florida had made a deal with Jeffrey Epstein in June 2008, in which he agreed to plead guilty to state criminal charges in Florida, in exchange for no further criminal charges brought against him or his co-conspirators.
However, federal prosecutors have stated that the Florida agreement was not violated, as Maxwell was charged in New York.
Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 after she was finally caught hiding out at a secret luxurious home in New Hampshire. She was convicted in 2021, and sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison.
NEW: Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/sjrBKIn7Jk
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 6, 2025
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