Ghislaine Maxwell Appeals Sex-Trafficking Case to Supreme Court

Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction, arguing she was shielded from prosecution under a deal her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein reached with the government in a separate case.

In her petition, which was provided by her lawyer, Maxwell argued she was covered by terms of a 2007 non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with a US attorney in Florida. Prosecutors agreed not to pursue criminal charges against Epstein or “any potential co-conspirators” in exchange for his guilty plea on state charges he solicited minors to engage in prostitution.

Maxwell ...