(Bloomberg) — Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence on the eve of a deadline for the Justice Department to hand over a trove of documents related to her ex-boyfriend, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell filed a long-running request for a judge to overturn the guilty verdict based on what she says is “substantial new evidence” that has emerged since her trial in 2021. The 63-year-old filed the request with or without a lawyer from the federal prison in Bryan, Texas, where she is serving her sentence.
The new evidence “shows that exculpatory information was withheld, false testimony was presented, and material facts were misrepresented to the jury and the court,” she wrote in the 51-page filing, resulting in “a complete miscarriage of justice that renders petitioner’s conviction invalid, dangerous and unfit.”
Material related to her case could be released by the Justice Department before a Friday deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. President Donald Trump had opposed the release of the data for months, but reversed course in the face of public pressure to release more information about Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in 2019.
The new filing comes after Maxwell lost a previous appeal against a 2021 verdict in which she was convicted of participating in Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls. In October, the US Supreme Court rejected her bid to overturn the conviction.
Maxwell said the new evidence comes from related civil lawsuits, government information, press releases and other sources.
The case is Maxwell v. U.S., 25-cv-10464, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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