Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief amid DOJ talks

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Ghislaine Maxwell asked the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out her conviction for sex trafficking minors, arguing she should have been shielded from prosecution under a sweeping 2007 plea agreement Jeffrey Epstein secured with federal prosecutors in Florida.

The response brief to the high court arrives just days after Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving a 20-year sentence, sat down with a top Justice Department official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is reexamining the long-dormant Epstein probe. It also comes amid growing political pressure on the Trump administration to release long-promised files related to Epstein’s trafficking network.

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