Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team moved forward with appealing her case to the Supreme Court on Monday, three days after the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein met with a top Justice Department official. The convicted child sex trafficker’s team filed a new brief with the Supreme Court urging it to overturn her conviction.

"We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court but to the President himself," an attorney for the disgraced British socialite said.

President Trump claimed this week that Jeffrey Epstein “stole" Mar-a-Lago spa workers, including accuser Virginia Giuffre.

President Trump is struggling to escape the controversy around Jeffrey Epstein and convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, even when he’s abroad in the United Kingdom this weekend. WIRED Senior Writer Jake Lahut,