Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme court to take up her pending appeal and overturn her conviction, claiming that she was covered by an agreement Epstein made with federal authorities that shielded her from prosecution, Axios is reporting.

“This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,” Maxwell’s attorneys told the justices in a new brief.

Maxwell has serving a 20-year in federal prison since 2022 for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse teenage girls.

She has recently had meetings with deputy attorney general Todd Blanche for interviews amid a political firestorm over the Trump administration’s mishandling of the Epstein case.

Those talks were not mentioned in the latest supreme court filing.

“President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal – and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it,” Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said in a statement. “We are appealing not only to the supreme court but to the president himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, especially when the government promised she would not be prosecuted.”

Asked earlier today if he would consider giving Maxwell a pardon, Donald Trump said:

Nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it. It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it,...

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