Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered a fresh legal blow as a federal judge rejected her bid to overturn her Epstein-linked sex trafficking conviction and escape her 20-year prison sentence. Judge Paul Engelmayer called Maxwell’s claims “demonstrably meritless,” while dismissing her arguments over newly released Epstein files, alleged withheld evidence and selective prosecution.

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.