In 2023, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.

However, this week saw Maxwell's lawyers request that the Supreme Court reverse her guilty verdict. 

Legal team points to plea agreement that Epstein reached with prosecutors

According to The Guardian, a petition which was lodged with America's highest judicial body on Monday points to a 2007 agreement that federal prosecutors in Florida reached with Epstein.

Under its provisions, Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges which had been brought against him by the state of Florida.

In exchange, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida agreed not to prosecute Epstein under federal law and also agreed not to bring charges against any of his coconspirators.

Yet the Department of Justice (DOJ) maintains that Epstein's agreement only applied in the Southern District of Florida, a contention with which Maxwell's trial judge agreed.

Appeals court ruled against Maxwell last year

What's more, NBC News recalled how U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan pointed out that the agreement concerned crimes which took place between 2001 and 2007.

In contrast, Maxwell was prosecuted in the Southern District of New York over the offenses she committed between 1994 and 1997, a period which concluded "some four years before the period covered by the Southern District of Florida investigation."

Meanwhile, MSNBC legal blogger Jordan Rubin noted that a three-judge panel with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit also ruled against Maxwell last year.

The panel concluded that there is "nothing in the [agreement] that affirmatively shows that the [agreement] was intended to bind multiple districts."

Maxwell's attorney: "She didn't hold anything back" when questioned by DOJ

Meanwhile, Fox News reported on Wednesday that the Supreme Court has decided to review Maxwell's appeal at a closed-door conference this coming fall.

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court will discuss Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal to overturn her conviction during a private Sept. 29 conference

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 30, 2025

The cable network also pointed out that Maxwell has been speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche regarding what she knows of Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

David Markus is Maxwell's attorney, and said that the meeting represented  the "first opportunity" that his client has "ever been given to answer questions about what happened."

Markus went on to declare that Maxwell responded to questions concerning "maybe about a hundred different people, and she didn't hold anything back."