Ghislaine Maxwell has appealed to the US Supreme Court to throw out her federal sex trafficking conviction.
Maxwell's lawyers have argued a plea deal Jeffrey Epstein reached with prosecutors in 2007 to not charge any of his accomplices covers the British former socialite.
However, earlier this month the American Justice Department opposed the Supreme Court taking up the appeal.
In a petition, Maxwell's legal team vowed: "Rather than grapple with the core principle of plea agreements, the Government tries to distract by reciting a lurid and irrelevant account of Jeffrey Epstein's misconduct.
"But this case is about what the Government promised, not what Epstein did."
Last week Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche over two days in order to answer questions about her involvement with the paedophile financier.
One of Maxwell's legal representatives, David Oscar Markus, said outside the courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, that she answered every question in relation to over 100 of Epstein's contacts.
He said: "They asked about every possible thing you could imagine - everything."
Ghislaine Maxwell appealed on Monday to the Supreme Court to throw out her federal sex trafficking conviction
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"She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer.
"She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best to her ability."
In addition to the Supreme Court appeal, the lawyers are also aiming for a presidential pardon for their client.
Markus said: "The President said earlier he has the power to do so... We hope he exercises that power in the right way."
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Last week Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche over two days in order to answer questions about the case
| GETTYIn response, on Friday morning, Trump refused to rule out using his pardon powers for Maxwell, saying: "I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I haven't thought about."
In 2007, Epstein came to a deal which allowed him to plead guilty in Florida to solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution - which would see him face only 13 months in prison.
This deal stipulated that Miami's US Attorney's Office would "not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators".
This agreement only names four people, none of whom are Maxwell.
Earlier this month, Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed to crush the appeal in a statement produced
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Now, Maxwell is serving 20 years behind bars for her crimes - including sex trafficking conspiracy, enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Earlier this month, Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed to crush the appeal in a statement produced.
The 21-page document from Bondi's Department of Justice rejected Maxwell's argument that Epstein's non-prosecution agreement when he was first investigated gave her immunity.
This all came after Donald Trump revealed why he cut his friendship with the disgraced financier.
Speaking to the media on a visit to the UK, Trump suggested that the reason he cut off ties with Epstein was due to the latter stealing his members of staff.
He said: "For years, I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't talk because he did something that was inappropriate.
"He stole people that work for me. I said: 'Don't even do that again.' He did it again and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.
"I threw him out, and that was it."
Trump's words, meanwhile, came ahead of a crucial deadline on July 29 for the DoJ.
On Tuesday, it must finish laying out its arguments for unsealing grand jury records into Epstein and Maxwell's sex trafficking case.