Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday lost a bid to overturn her December 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges for her role in helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
Ghislaine Maxwell Photo: AFP
In a written ruling, US District Judge Alison Nathan upheld the British socialite's guilty verdict on three of the five counts - including sex trafficking - for which she was convicted.
Judge Nathan said the jury's verdict was supported by witness testimony and evidence presented at trial.
Nathan rejected the guilty verdicts reached on two of the counts, potentially reducing Maxwell's sentence, but said three of the charges effectively covered the same offence, so upheld only one of those three guilty verdicts.
She was convicted on five of six charges at trial.
Epstein, himself a convicted sex offender, died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 at the age of 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
-Reuters