Maxwell will continue to serve her 20-year sentence after judges in Manhattan upheld her five convictions.

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. court on Tuesday upheld disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls. Maxwell’s lawyers had argued that her convictions violated an agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors 15 years ago in which he agreed to plead guilty […]

Ghislaine Maxwell has had her appeal against a sex trafficking conviction rejected by a US court.

Lawyers argued conviction violated Epstein’s agreement with prosecutors, statute of limitations

The disgraced British socialite’s sentence of 20 years in prison was also judged to be “procedurally reasonable”.

A U.S. court on Tuesday upheld disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls. Maxwell's lawyers had argued that her convictions violated an agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors 15 years ago and violated the statute of limitations.…