New Delhi, July 29 -- Ghislaine Maxwell has petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn her 2021 sex trafficking conviction, arguing that a non-prosecution agreement Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal authorities should have protected her from criminal charges.

"This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did," her attorneys wrote in a newly filed brief, as reported by Axios.

Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for grooming and abusing underage girls alongside Epstein, contends that the plea agreement reached between Epstein and the government in 2008 extended immunity to his alleged co-conspirators.

Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Markus, appealed not just to the court but directly to President Donald...