WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday (Oct 6) declined to hear an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , of her sex trafficking conviction. The top court rejected Maxwell's appeal without comment. Maxwell, 63, was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for recruiting young girls for Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. The authorities ruled the wealthy financier's death a suicide, but