Maxwell, 64, who represented herself, challenged her December 2021 conviction and sentence in Manhattan federal court and sought a writ of habeas corpus after claiming her punishment was unlawful. Epstein accomplice Maxwell loses bid to overturn US conviction Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Maxwell, 64, who represented herself, challenged her December 2021 conviction and sentence in Manhattan federal court and sought a writ of habeas corpus after claiming her punishment was unlawful.S1

• Epstein accomplice Maxwell loses bid to overturn US convictionS2

• Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of supplying underage girls to Epstein, whose ties to powerful business executives, politicians, celebrities and academics have fueled years of scrutiny and conspiracy theoriesS3

• Maxwell, 64, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and is the only person convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial.S4

• The judge said in his ruling that Maxwell's claims that her constitutional rights at trial and sentencing were violated 'are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.'S5

• Ghislaine Maxwell has had her bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction thrown out of court.S6

• She maintained in a habeas petition that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presentedS7

• A US judge said Maxwell’s bid to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence on the grounds that there was “substantial new evidence” was “demonstrably meritless”.S8