Maxwell, 60, was convicted last December of five charges of recruiting and trafficking four teenage girls for abuse by Epstein, her then boyfriend.
One of her accusers said outside the court earlier that she should remain in prison for the rest of her life.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
He had been awaiting his own sex trafficking trial.
Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes took place over a decade, between 1994 and 2004.
Maxwell, dressed in prison clothes, apologised to the victims.
