Epstein's accomplice Maxwell demanded that the verdict be overturned due to new evidence.

Gilane Maxwell, an accomplice of controversial financier Jeffrey Epstein, demanded that her sex trafficking conviction be overturned or reviewed. This was reported on June 25 by ABC News channel.

In her petition, 64-year-old Maxwell claims that documents published under the Epstein Files Transparency Act revealed violations of constitutional and legal norms. In her opinion, the new data makes her conviction in 2021 "invalid, unsafe and unjustified."

"No reasonable jury would have convicted me if these documents had been presented to the court or if the materials had been available for cross—examination and discrediting of witnesses," she wrote in the petition.

According to the newspaper, the convict is serving a 20-year sentence in a federal prison in Texas. She noted that due to the lack of Internet access in detention, she had to rely on media reports when preparing her petition, which she called "an almost impossible task."

The New York Federal Prosecutor's Office, in a response document, called Maxwell's claims speculative and factually erroneous. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz said the papers filed were based on baseless allegations of government misconduct.

"The defendant seeks to overturn the court's decision, which is a solemn verdict of the jury. Her victims deserve final certainty. Allegedly, the new evidence referred to by the defendant does not give her the right to judicial protection," the prosecutor's office's objection says.

The prosecution admitted that some of the documents now released were indeed not provided to the defense before the trial began, but this did not affect the verdict. In response, Maxwell stressed that the court should assess the "cumulative force" of the new records, and not consider each fact in isolation."Газета.Ru ".

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On June 28, 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States for aiding and abetting the seduction of minors. Epstein committed suicide at a correctional center in New York in August 2019. A few months earlier, he had been arrested on charges of organizing sex trafficking and involving minors in prostitution.

Epstein's files began to be published on December 20 last year, after the US president signed a bill on their publication on November 19 of the same year. On February 14, former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi published a list of more than 300 names of famous people who are mentioned in the files on the financier's case. It was clarified that the text contains the names of the 42nd American president Bill Clinton, the 46th head of state Joe Biden, one of the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates, as well as singer Beyonce.