WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.
As is their custom, the justices did not explain why they turned away the appeal.
Trump’s Republican administration had urged the high court to stay out of the case.
Maxwell was prosecuted in Manhattan, and the federal appeals court there ruled that the prosecution was proper.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls.
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