FILE - Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of late British publisher Robert Maxwell, reads a statement expressing her family's gratitude to Spanish authorities after recovery of his body, Nov. 7, 1991, in Tenerife, Spain. The imprisoned British socialite's lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her prosecution. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard, File)
FILE - This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her prosecution. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)