GHISLAINE Maxwell’s appeal against her sex trafficking convictions has been thrown out by a US court.
The 62-year-old was found guilty in December 2021 of luring young girls to massage rooms for Prince Andrew’s paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.
Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentenceGetty
Ghislaine Maxwell pictured with Jeffrey EpsteinThe Mega Agency
AFPPrince Andrew pictured with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell[/caption]
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the federal court in the southern district of New York in June 2022.
On Tuesday, judges upheld her five convictions – including sex trafficking minors, conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and conspiracy to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
The court said Maxwell’s sentence was “procedurally reasonable”.
Maxwell’s appeal focused on an agreement from 2007 between Epstein and federal prosecutors in southern Florida.
She said it barred her from being prosecuted in Manhattan 13 years later.
Maxwell also argued that prosecutors “scapegoated” her because Epstein was dead and the public demanded that someone else be held accountable.
She said her trial was tainted because one juror didn’t disclose that he had been sexually abused as a child.
Epstein was found dead in jail in 2019 while he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
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