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Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s long-shot bid to overturn her sex crimes conviction was soundly rejected Tuesday \u2014 by a judge who ripped Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s notorious madam for filing a \u201crambling\u201d motion from prison.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaxwell\u2019s claims are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous,\u201d Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote in a scathing 67-page decision.<\/p>\n

The jailed sex trafficker\u2019s Hail Mary bid for release filed last December did not come close to backing up her claims that she was wrongly convicted on charges of luring girls into the dead financier\u2019s orbit for more than a decade, the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,\u201d the judge found.<\/p>\n

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Maxwell, 64, is serving out a 20-year prison sentence after four women testified at the convicted sex fiend\u2019s 2021 trial about Maxwell courting them and trafficking them to Epstein to be sexually abused.<\/p>\n

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Federal officials transferred the infamous predator from a Florida lockup to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas \u2014 sparking outrage from her victims.<\/p>\n

US Attorney Todd Blanche has defended the controversial move by citing unspecified security threats that he says Maxwell had been subject to at her more restrictive lockup.<\/p>\n

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