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Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean Properties Including 'Paedophile Island' Goes Up For Sale
Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean Properties including infamous 'Paedophile Island' where Prince Andrew is claimed to have stayed goes up for sale
Daily Mirror 23 MAR 2022
The Caribbean island on which Prince Andrew is claimed to have visited his paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein has gone on sale.
Two properties that were once at the centre of the disgraced financier's real estate portfolio are being listed for £97 million.
Situated in the US Virgin Islands, Great St James and Little St James islands have been put on the market by Epstein's estate.
According to reports in the US, money from their sale will help fund outstanding lawsuits filed by the late sex offender's victims and the costs of running the properties.
Little St James is where the Duke of York's sex accuser Virginia Giuffre claimed in court he took part in a nine girl orgy with Epstein.
The Prince vehemently denied her claims.
Jeffrey Epstein arrived in the Virgin Islands in 1998, when he paid £6 million for Little St. James, a roughly 70-acre island. He called it Little St Jeff's.
Ms Giuffre wrote in evidence to a Florida Court on January 19, 2015: "The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
"I was around 18 at the time. Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English."
Ms Giuffre added Epstein “laughed about the fact they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls to get along with”.
The court filings were made in a civil defamation lawsuit filed by Ms Giuffre against since-convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
The mum-of-three would later go on to sue Andrew in August 2021 for sex abuse in New York. The case was settled last month with a reported £12 million out of court settlement paid to Ms Giuffre by the royal.
Before his jail cell suicide in August 2019, Epstein once described the United States Virgin Islands as "my favourite place to be."
It became a haven for him and his associates, Epstein's victims claim to have been abused there.
The financier's private 'Lolita Express' jet would fly him to St Thomas's international airport, where he would board a helicopter that flew him to his Little St. James and Great St. James islands.
Once there, he was known to entertain famous friends and, his accusers have claimed in court filings, trafficked underage girls for sex.
Epstein arrived in the Virgin Islands in 1998, when he paid £6 million for Little St. James, a roughly 70-acre island. He called it Little St Jeff's.
In 2016, he bought the larger Great St. James for £13.25 million.
The financier's private 'Lolita Express' jet would fly him to St Thomas's international airport, where he would board a helicopter that flew him to his Little St. James and Great St. James islands.
Over the years, he spent millions more developing the islands, including building a villa with a library, a Japanese bathhouse and a movie theatre.
When he was there, he cultivated close ties to the islands' political and financial elite. He once employed a governor's wife.
Epstein hired an architecture firm owned by the same governor's uncle.
He also donated money, sponsored scholarships and even gave dozens of computers to give away.
A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands two years ago alleged Epstein used his two secluded islands to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls as young as 11 years old.
According to reports in the US, money from their sale will help fund outstanding lawsuits filed by the late sex offender's victims and the costs of running the propertie
According to the complaint, he and others organised a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away and kept her passport to keep her captive.
From 2001 to 2018, Epstein and his aides, among them Ghislaine Maxwell, flew girls from other countries to the Virgin Islands on the multimillionaire's private plane.
Epstein, 66, killed himself in a New York federal jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of sex trafficking and other charges for helping Epstein sexually abuse multiple teenage girls from 1994 to 2004.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in June, although she has filed a motion for a retrial after a juror failed to reveal his own sexual abuse in a questionnaire before being selected to be on the panel.
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