Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, claims exonerating information was withheld at her trial.

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'