<p>Disgraced former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appealed her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, a court filing showed Thursday.</p>.<p>Her lawyer Bobbi Sternheim filed the appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last week, the docket showed.</p>.<p>The document did not detail Maxwell's arguments for throwing out the conviction, but her attorneys have previously claimed that a juror biased the verdict.</p>.<p>Her legal team have also argued that some of the victims were above the age of consent in certain states where the abuse occurred.</p>.<p>The Oxford-educated daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell was found guilty on five of six counts, the most serious for sex trafficking minors, late last year.</p>.<p>The charges stemmed from crimes committed against four women between 1994 and 2004.</p>.<p>Prosecutors successfully proved that she was "the key" to Epstein's scheme of enticing young girls to give him massages, during which he would sexually abuse them.</p>.<p>New York judge Alison Nathan described Maxwell's crimes as "heinous and predatory" when she sentenced the 60-year-old last week.</p>.<p>Maxwell's lawyers unsuccessfully argued during her high-profile trial that their client had been pursued by prosecutors only because Epstein had evaded justice.</p>.<p>The money manager hanged himself in jail in 2019 aged 66 while awaiting his own sex crimes trial in New York.</p>.<p>In April, Nathan rejected Maxwell's claim that she should receive a new trial because a juror had boasted of convincing fellow panelists to convict by recalling his own experiences as a sex abuse victim.</p>.<p>Maxwell's circle once included Britain's Prince Andrew, former US president and real estate baron Donald Trump and the Clinton family.</p>
<p>Disgraced former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appealed her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, a court filing showed Thursday.</p>.<p>Her lawyer Bobbi Sternheim filed the appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last week, the docket showed.</p>.<p>The document did not detail Maxwell's arguments for throwing out the conviction, but her attorneys have previously claimed that a juror biased the verdict.</p>.<p>Her legal team have also argued that some of the victims were above the age of consent in certain states where the abuse occurred.</p>.<p>The Oxford-educated daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell was found guilty on five of six counts, the most serious for sex trafficking minors, late last year.</p>.<p>The charges stemmed from crimes committed against four women between 1994 and 2004.</p>.<p>Prosecutors successfully proved that she was "the key" to Epstein's scheme of enticing young girls to give him massages, during which he would sexually abuse them.</p>.<p>New York judge Alison Nathan described Maxwell's crimes as "heinous and predatory" when she sentenced the 60-year-old last week.</p>.<p>Maxwell's lawyers unsuccessfully argued during her high-profile trial that their client had been pursued by prosecutors only because Epstein had evaded justice.</p>.<p>The money manager hanged himself in jail in 2019 aged 66 while awaiting his own sex crimes trial in New York.</p>.<p>In April, Nathan rejected Maxwell's claim that she should receive a new trial because a juror had boasted of convincing fellow panelists to convict by recalling his own experiences as a sex abuse victim.</p>.<p>Maxwell's circle once included Britain's Prince Andrew, former US president and real estate baron Donald Trump and the Clinton family.</p>