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Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal, Leaving Conviction and 20-Year Sentence Intact

The decision refocuses Maxwell’s prospects on potential presidential clemency.

Overview

  • Maxwell’s petition argued that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 Florida non‑prosecution agreement shielding “potential co‑conspirators” should have barred her New York prosecution.
  • Lower courts and the Justice Department maintained the agreement bound only the Southern District of Florida, not federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
  • Maxwell, 63, remains at a minimum‑security federal prison camp in Texas after a July transfer from Florida that, per CNBC, would have required a Bureau of Prisons waiver.
  • A Justice Department review reported no incriminating “client list,” and Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche she never saw President Trump act inappropriately.
  • With judicial avenues closed, reporting notes her plausible route to early release is a pardon or commutation from President Trump.