Ghislaine Maxwell in ‘new evidence’ freedom bid days before Epstein files emerge

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction

Ghislaine Maxwell has pleaded with a judge to free her from a 20-year prison sentence, claiming "substantial new evidence" has emerged proving that "constitutional violations" impacted her trial.

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate asked a federal judge on today to set aside her sex trafficking conviction. Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition she has promised to file since August that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury.

She complained that a "complete miscarriage of justice" had taken place and made a freedom bid days before the release the long-sealed Epstein files. Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail term for trafficking schoolgirls to satisfy herself and her paedophile lover.

"Since the conclusion of her trial, substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the fairness of her proceeding," the filing in Manhattan federal court said. "In the light of the full evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have convicted her."

The filing came just two days before records in her case were scheduled to be released publicly as a result of President Donald Trump's signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law, signed after months of public and political pressure, requires the Justice Department to provide the public with Epstein-related records by December 19.

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