Court Rejects Maxwell Appeal, Finds DOJ Epstein Docs Backfire on Her

A federal judge in New York rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction on August 25, 2026. Maxwell had cited the Trump Justice Department's multimillion-page Epstein document release as new evidence. Judge Engelmayer found the material "incriminates her or reinforces the correctness" of her conviction. He called her claims "demonstrably meritless." Maxwell serves her sentence in Bryan, Texas.