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Convicted kid enactment trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is said to look a 'do oregon die' infinitesimal successful her bid to unafraid a retrial, pursuing claims that Jeffrey Epstein's 'client list' didn't beryllium aft all.
Maxwell, 63, is presently serving 20 years successful a US situation aft being recovered guilty of aiding Epstein successful the enactment trafficking of young girls.
However, the ex-socialite's lawsuit is backmost successful the quality aft a bombshell update from the US authorities stated that a heavy rumoured 'client list' belonging to Epstein didn't exist.
Last week, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released an update connected Epstein - who has been the taxable of galore conspiracy theories since helium died successful constabulary custody - which included releasing footage to beryllium the 66-year-old killed himself and denying the beingness of a 'client list'.
Ghislaine Maxwell successful 1997 (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Following the update, the Mail Online has published a study suggesting that Maxwell is presently appealing to the US Supreme Court for a retrial, saying the erstwhile Epstein confidant is 'anxious but hopeful' astir the situation.
"This is simply a captious moment, a bash oregon dice moment. Ghislaine believes she has aggregate grounds for appeal," the unnamed Department of Justice root added.
Maxwell has made galore attempts to unafraid a retrial implicit the past mates of years, each of which person been denied by national courts.
According to ABC, she submitted a plea to overturn her condemnation to the US Supreme Court backmost successful April, claiming she was covered by a non-prosecution statement made betwixt Epstein and the US government.
Maxwell's squad is besides understood to beryllium considering appealing straight to the Trump medication – with MailOnline reporting that Solicitor General John Sauer has requested much clip for consideration.
What is Jeffrey Epstein's alleged 'client list'?
Speculation astir Epstein's 'client list' - a database of affluent and salient individuals the disgraced financier is said to person trafficked girls to - has been doing the rounds connected the net for respective years now.
Maxwell is the lone subordinate of Jeffrey Epstein who has been prosecuted (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
US lawyer wide Pam Bondi adjacent appeared to confirm the beingness of a database earlier this year.
The files would travel up successful speech again during Donald Trump and Elon Musk's infamous fallout, with the Tesla proprietor claiming (without evidence) that the president's sanction was included successful the lawsuit list connected X.
However, the FBI has present denied that specified a database ever existed successful the archetypal place, penning successful the pursuing memo: "This systematic reappraisal revealed nary incriminating 'client list'. There was besides nary grounds recovered that Epstein blackmailed salient individuals arsenic portion of his actions.
"We did not uncover grounds that could predicate an probe against uncharged 3rd parties."
The update directly contradicts erstwhile claims by the US authorities to release each files relating to the Epstein case.
