A central figure in the Jeffrey Epstein saga is back in the limelight again — his once-girlfriend and associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. The big picture: As the Trump administration faces weeks of bipartisan backlash over its handling of the Epstein files,

The U.S. Supreme Court should hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction, her lawyers argued in a brief to the Supreme Court Monday.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to take up her pending appeal and overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, claiming she was covered by an agreement Epstein made with federal authorities that shielded her from prosecution.