Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean compound — dubbed “Pedophile Island” after prosecutors alleged that the disgraced financier introduced underage women there to be sexually assaulted by way of Epstein and his mates — is available on the market for $125 million, The Instances has showed.
Discovered within the U.S. Virgin Islands close to the southeast coast of St. Thomas, the tropical retreat is composed of 2 islands: Nice St. James and Little St. James, the latter of which is the place the attack of minors used to be purported to happen. The pair mix for 230 acres.
The record is held by way of Bespoke Actual Property, a luxurious brokerage whose website online says the compound has “exceptional get right of entry to to the Caribbean’s maximum elite actions” and provides attainable patrons the danger to transport in, renovate or rebuild. The brokerage had no remark at the sale.
Epstein, a convicted intercourse culprit who died by way of obvious suicide in a New York prison in 2019, purchased Little St. James for $7.95 million in 1998 and spent the next years turning the 70-acre unfold right into a palm-topped paradise entire with a sprawling stone mansion crowned with a turquoise roof, 4 visitor villas, two swimming pools, a gymnasium, tiki hut, dock and helicopter pad. Different prospers come with a life-size Holstein-Friesian cow statue.
Masking 70 acres, Little St. James island holds a mansion, 4 visitor villas and a mysterious temple-like construction.
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On the fringe of the island, there’s a mysterious blue-and-white-striped development crowned by way of a gold dome and two cockatiel statues. Employees at the island had been instructed it used to be a song room entire with a grand piano and acoustic partitions, however the development’s temple-like design has sparked intense scrutiny from conspiracy theorists who, in mild of the allegations, declare the gap may’ve been used to abuse minors dropped at the island.
FBI brokers raided the island after Epstein’s dying, and the valuables has grow to be a scorching spot for vacationers, who constitution boats to get a better glimpse of the unfold that used to be as soon as patrolled by way of armed guards all through Epstein’s time there.
Discovered close to the southeast coast of St. Thomas, Nice St. James island spans 160 acres.
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Epstein purchased the neighboring island, Nice St. James, in 2016. The bigger of the 2 at kind of 160 acres, the island is much less evolved with winding paths thru forested hills. The spotlight is Christmas Cove, an inlet at the western coast of the valuables.
The proceeds of the sale will pass towards the Epstein property’s answer of remarkable proceedings, consistent with the Wall Boulevard Magazine, which first reported the tale.
The islands are a small piece of Epstein’s country-spanning number of actual property, which additionally features a New Mexico ranch, Florida compound and 40-room New York mansion that offered for $51 million ultimate 12 months.
