A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to toss out her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges and 20-year prison sentence.

Maxwell’s petition for a new trial was “meritless” and often “frivolous,” the judge wrote, and the evidence she provided only “incriminates her” further.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer says claims by longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein of new evidence in sex trafficking conviction are 'demonstrably meritless'