Convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein‘s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, has appealed her case to the US Supreme Court, asking for her sex trafficking conviction to be overturned.
The former socialite is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida after being found guilty on five counts of assisting Epstein with sex trafficking, some involving victims younger than 17.
David Markus, a lawyer for Maxwell, has filed a 159-page petition and argued that the Supreme Court should overturn her 2021 conviction, stating that Maxwell should be safe from prosecution due to Epstein reaching a deal in a separate case with the US government in 2007.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. (Source: Getty Images)
Epstein signed a secret deal with federal and state authorities to not prosecute him, in exchange for pleading guilty to two prostitution-related charges and registering as a sex offender, in 2007.
The deal also protected Epstein’s co-cospirators, including Maxwell.
“Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein,” Markus wrote in the petition, per ABC News.
Maxwell with Naomi Campbell in 2002. (Source: Getty Images)
“A defendant should be able to rely on a promise that the United States will not prosecute again, without being subject to a ‘gotcha’ in some other jurisdiction that chooses to interpret that plain language promise in some other way.”
Maxwell was first charged with sex trafficking in 2020, one year after Epstein’s highly-controversial suicide.
The Supreme Court has not yet responded to Maxwell’s petition.
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