Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney has claimed that his client has unfairly been subjected to "grueling conditions" in jail.
The lawyer even alleged that there has been a lack of drinking water for Maxwell and a sewage stench in her cell.
The British socialite, 59, is in jail in Brooklyn, New York, after being charged for her alleged role in trafficking four underage girls for the now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court rejected her request for bail for the fifth time, the Guardian reports.
Maxwell has been in police custody since July 2020 and in that time, Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus says, according to the paper, that she has been "subjected to more grueling conditions than any other inmate" at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
He went on: "This is due to the Epstein effect. Because Epstein died on the jail’s watch, it has decided to torture Ghislaine. That’s wrong."
Markus says the lack of drinking water, the potent odor in her cell as well as sleep deprivation has meant she is unable to adequately prepare for her trial.
In November, Sky News reported that Maxwell's defense lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said her client is woken every 15 minutes in order to check she is still breathing, despite the fact that there is no evidence that she has had suicidal tendencies.
She is also essentially kept in solitary confinement and has allegedly been subjected to excessive and invasive searches.
Sternheim alleged that Maxwell is incessantly monitored and that there is a camera in her cell and she is immediately followed by cameras whenever she steps outside.
Maxwell's trial had initially been planned for July, however, it has now been rescheduled for November 2021 after her legal team asked for additional prep time.
She was arrested in an FBI raid at her New Hampshire home back in July over allegations that she acted as an associate to convicted sex offender Epstein. The disgraced financier ended his life in prison in August 2019.
The 66-year-old had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and conspiracy charges and was being held without bail.