Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her sex crimes conviction was firmly rejected Tuesday by a federal judge who characterized her filing as “rambling” and lacking in substance. Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer, in a 67-page decision, stated that Maxwell’s claims were “all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.”
The judge found that the motion, filed in December, did not support her assertions of being wrongly convicted on charges related to luring young girls into the circle of financier Jeffrey Epstein for over a decade. Instead, Engelmayer wrote, the filing “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges.”
Maxwell, 64, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. Her conviction stemmed from the 2021 trial where four women testified that Maxwell had courted them and trafficked them to Epstein for sexual abuse.
Recently, federal officials transferred Maxwell from a Florida correctional facility to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche has cited unspecified security threats at her previous, more restrictive location as the reason for the transfer, a move that drew criticism from her victims.