Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York judge last month on June 29.
New York:
Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced former social networking site appealed 20 years sentence and sentence for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, a court filing showed Thursday.
Her attorney, Bobbi Sternheim, filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last week.
The document did not detail Maxwell’s arguments for dismissing the verdict, but her lawyers had previously argued that a juror had biased the verdict.
Her legal team also argued that some victims were above the age of consent in some of the states where the abuse occurred.
The Oxford-trained daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell was found guilty of five of six counts, the most serious against a minor, of sex trafficking, late last year.
The charges stem from crimes committed against four women between 1994 and 2004.
Prosecutors successfully proved that she was “key” to Epstein’s scheme to seduce young girls into giving him massages, in which he would sexually abuse them.
New York judge Alison Nathan described Maxwell’s crimes as “cruel and carnivorous” when she sentenced the 60-year-old last week.
Maxwell’s attorneys unsuccessfully argued during her high-profile trial that their client was pursued by prosecutors simply because Epstein evaded justice.
The money manager hanged himself in prison in 2019 at the age of 66 while awaiting trial for his own sex crime in New York.
In April, Nathan refuted Maxwell’s claims that she should get a new trial because a jury bragged about convincing jurors to convict by recalling his own experience. as a victim of sexual abuse.
Maxwell’s circle once included Britain’s Prince Andrew, former US president and estate baron Donald Trump and the Clintons.
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