NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell Makes Ominous Legal Move After Meet With DOJ

Epstein mistress Ghislaine Maxwell on Monday made a long-shot appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her 2021 conviction on grooming underage girls for sex, a desperate bid that perhaps signals the Trump administration is no longer entertaining her request for a shorter prison sentence.

Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years for recruiting young girls for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, submitted her request to the high court following a two-day marathon meeting with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Blanche confirmed on Friday that Maxwell has turned over the names of “100 individuals” connected to the late pedophile and financier.

David Oscar and Mona Markus, Maxwell’s husband-wife legal team, argued in a brief that she should be exonerated on the basis of a 2007 non-prosecution agreement struck between Epstein and the U.S. attorney of South Florida.

“Rather than grapple with the core principles of plea agreements, the government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct,” they wrote.

The much-maligned deal allowed Epstein — who died in 2019 while in jail awaiting a second trial on underage sex-trafficking — to plead guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution.

Under the agreement, Epstein served just 13 months, most of which were spent on work release. Terms of the deal said prosecutors would “not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein,” although none of the four individuals mentioned included Maxwell.

Oscar and Markus argue that the deal should apply to their client.

“This promise is unqualified,” they wrote, the NY Post reported. “It is not geographically limited to the Southern District of Florida, it is not conditioned on the co-conspirators being known by the government at the time, it does not depend on what any particular government attorney may have had in his or her head about who might be a co-conspirator, and it contains no other caveat or exception.”

“This should be the end of the discussion.”

U.S. Justice Department officials have rebuffed Maxwell’s claim, arguing in court last week that then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta lacked the authority to impose a nationwide deal on prosecution and that it only applied to his South Florida office.

Maxwell lost her last appearance in court in New York’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

“No one is above the law—not even the Southern District of New York. Our government made a deal, and it must honor it. The United States cannot promise immunity with one hand in Florida and prosecute with the other in New York,” Maxwell’s attorneys said in a statement.

“President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal—and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it.”

Trump on Friday said he hasn’t given much thought to pardoning Maxwell, a decision that would reverberate far beyond her Tallahassee jail cell if she were ever set free. The administration is under tremendous pressure to produce new evidence in the government’s Epstein investigation, and Maxwell has seized on the moment by promising to reveal new details about Epstein’s abuse and who else may be implicated by it.