The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to appeal her conviction for trafficking teenage girls and young women to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

The nation’s high court denied review of Maxwell’s 2021 conviction on five counts without any of the justices dissenting.

The decision means Epstein’s right hand and the only person criminally tried for aiding the late financier’s extensive abuse has little hope for release from her 20-year sentence, outside of a presidential pardon.

She had asked the court to review her conviction after the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals refused last year to throw it out on the basis that she should have been protected from prosecution per the terms of the disgraced sweetheart deal the Justice Department afforded to Epstein in the late 2000s, which included a line about shielding “potential co-conspirators.”

Federal prosecutors had asked the court to refuse to hear her appeal, in part arguing that the non-prosecution agreement hadn’t even protected Epstein from facing another indictment in 2019 after he evaded meaningful accountability with a 13-month jail term in 2008 and 2009 upon his conviction for soliciting a minor for sex.

Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus, in a statement to the Daily News, said her team was “deeply disappointed.”

“But this fight isn’t over. Serious legal and factual issues remain, and we will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that justice is done,” Markus said.

In a statement, Maxwell’s family said that, “Although disappointing, we respect the Supreme Court’s denial of review of our sister Ghislaine’s case,” and that she intended to file a habeas corpus petition with the 2nd Circuit promptly.

Following a monthlong trial, Maxwell, 63, was convicted in December 2021 of trafficking a teenage girl to Epstein, conspiring to entice minors and young women to travel to engage in illegal sex acts with the late convicted pedophile, and related offenses. Relatives of the British former socialite said the petition would allege prosecutors withheld evidence, engaged in misconduct and that jurors who found her guilty of facilitating Epstein’s depravity were biased.

“These violations of the Constitution, the denial of due process and fundamental trial rights … had a substantial influence on the trial verdict (and a devastating effect in terms of the subsequent conviction) and amply qualify our sister for the relief she seeks,” the family’s statement alleged.

The Supreme Court declined to weigh in on Maxwell’s conviction amid sustained public interest in those who participated in and aided Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring and ongoing bipartisan efforts to obtain the Justice Department and FBI’s trove of investigative files on Epstein.

Federal law enforcement officials in July claimed the government’s nonpublic files on Epstein did not include details about his co-conspirators. They reiterated previous findings that the well-connected wealth manager killed himself at 66 at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, around a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges.

The refusal to release the files drew widespread outrage and accusations of betrayal from many Trump supporters in light of conspiracy theories promoted by FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino about a supposed “client list” of influential people and Epstein’s cause of death before they were in power. Attorney General Pam Bondi had only months earlier claimed the so-called client list was sitting on her desk for review.

The ongoing scandal has reportedly enraged President Trump, who has become central to it following exposés in The Wall Street Journal alleging he penned a cryptic happy birthday poem for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003 inside a sketch of a naked woman. The president has criticized what he alleges is an “Epstein hoax” orchestrated by the Democrats. The Journal has reported that behind closed doors, Trump has lamented that people don’t understand “Palm Beach in the ’90s was a different time.”

Amid public outcry, Trump’s second in command at the Justice Department and former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, met with the incarcerated Maxwell for a highly unusual sitdown in late July.

Epstein’s convicted associate, who dated him in the early 1990s and was described at trial as serving as his “lady of the house” for at least a decade starting in 1994, revealed little and claimed she never witnessed Trump engage in abuse, according to transcripts.

Following the meeting, Maxwell was transferred from FCI Tallahassee in Florida to a more comfortable minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas.

In a statement Monday, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had subpoenaed Maxwell in its ongoing Epstein probe and would demand truthful answers from her.

“The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to pressure Maxwell into aiding their cover-up, including arranging an interview with Donald Trump’s former attorney, Todd Blanche, is outrageous and shameful,” Garcia said.

“It is time to end the White House cover-up of the Epstein case,” the statement added. “The American people deserve the truth.”

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