Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team has submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn her 2021 federal conviction for sex trafficking, as reported by The New York Post.
Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is arguing that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement between Epstein and federal prosecutors in South Florida also extends immunity to her.
The filing, submitted Monday by Maxwell’s attorneys David Oscar Markus and Mona Markus, claims that the federal government violated its agreement not to pursue charges against Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.
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The plea deal allowed Epstein to plead guilty to state-level offenses and serve 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail with work-release privileges.
As part of the deal, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida agreed not to “institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
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“This promise is unqualified,” Maxwell’s lawyers wrote in the petition. “It is not geographically limited to the Southern District of Florida, it is not conditioned on the co-conspirators being known by the government at the time… and it contains no other caveat or exception.”
According to the petition, the federal government has tried to sidestep the core legal issue by highlighting Epstein’s alleged misconduct rather than focusing on the binding nature of the agreement.
“Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct,” the filing states. “But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did.”
Maxwell was sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in prison following her conviction in December 2021 on charges including sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy.
Her attempts to overturn the conviction have previously failed in both the trial court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Department of Justice maintains that the 2007 plea agreement does not bind other federal jurisdictions, including the Southern District of New York, where Maxwell was prosecuted.
Justice Department officials argue that then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta did not have the authority to prevent other districts from filing charges.
In a statement accompanying the Supreme Court petition, Maxwell’s legal team said:
“No one is above the law—not even the Southern District of New York. Our government made a deal, and it must honor it. The United States cannot promise immunity with one hand in Florida and prosecute with the other in New York.”
The attorneys also appealed to a broader principle of government accountability. “President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal—and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it,” they said.
Maxwell recently participated in two days of interviews with Justice Department officials, led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in connection with the Epstein case.
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The case drew renewed attention earlier this month when the DOJ and FBI concluded in a July 6 memo that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 and that no “client list” exists—a claim that contradicts ongoing speculation about Epstein’s ties to high-profile individuals and alleged involvement in sex crimes with minors.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has said that no formal request for clemency on Maxwell’s behalf has been made and has dismissed speculation that a pardon is under consideration.
A separate legal effort by the current administration to unseal grand jury testimony related to Epstein’s 2007 plea deal was denied last week by a federal judge in South Florida.
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