Jeffrey Epstein associate and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out her 2021 federal sex trafficking conviction.
Maxwell's lawyers argue she is covered by the 2007 plea deal Epstein reached with South Florida prosecutors to not charge any of his accomplices.
The filing comes after President Donald Trump's Justice Department earlier this month wrote it opposed the Supreme Court taking up the appeal.
'Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein's misconduct,' Maxwell's legal team wrote in their petition.
'But this case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,' wrote the husband-and-wife duo, David and Mona Markus.
