A US judge ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her 20-year prison sentence was meritless and that the newly released Epstein files did not exonerate her.

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

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