Jeffrey Epstein's Notorious 'Orgy Island' Is For Sale For $55 Million
Jeffrey Epstein, the former financier and convicted sex offender, owned several properties across multiple states: a townhome in Manhattan, a house in West Palm Beach, Florida and a ranch in New Mexico, to name a few.
But he also owned two of his own private islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands—Little Saint James and Great Saint James—the first of which became notorious as “Epstein Island.”
Little Saint James became the place where he took young girls and sexually abused them, along with his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The island was heavily featured in the 2020 Netflix docuseries, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.
Along with young girls, he brought other well-known visitors and some pretty famous friends to Epstein Island. The list includes Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and Leslie Wexner—the founder of L Brands, the parent company that once owned Abercrombie & Fitch, Lane Bryant, Express, Structure, The Limited, and Victoria’s Secret—who is also the subject of Hulu’s upcoming docuseries, Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons.
Ahead, everything you need to know about Epstein Island and who visited.
What island is Epstein Island?
Epstein Island is Little Saint James, a private island in the British Virgin Islands, east of Puerto Rico. It’s located just southeast of Great Saint James, which Epstein also owned. Little Saint James is 72 acres, while Great Saint James is 165 acres, per Business Insider.
Epstein Island had five buildings on it, including a villa-style building with guesthouses, a library, a bathhouse, a movie theatre, and cabanas, per Business Insider.
What happened on Epstein Island?
Epstein Island was notorious for being the place where Jeffrey and Ghislaine Maxwell would take girls as young as 11 years old and sexually abuse them, as recently as 2018, per The Guardian. (It was called "Pedophile Island" and "Orgy Island" by locals, according to Business Insider.)
It’s also the place the FBI raided after Epstein's death to find evidence against in the case him, according to Business Insider.
According to a complaint filed in 2020, he “trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive underage girls and young women” on the island, per The Guardian.
How much did it sell for?
Epstein bought the home for $7.95 back in 1998, per Business Insider, and in March 2022, both Little Saint James and Great Saint James were put on the market as a package deal for $125. As of June 2022, they are now listed separately, going for $55 million each, per the Wall Street Journal.
Who owns Epstein Island now?
The estate of Jeffrey Epstein currently owns Epstein Island right now, per Market Realist.
Daniel Weiner, a partner at the New York law firm, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, said the proceeds of the sale "will be used by the estate for the resolution of outstanding lawsuits and the regular costs of the estate's operations,” according to the BBC.
Which celebrities visited Epstein Island?
Per Film Daily, the following boldface names visited his island:
Bill Clinton
Les Wexner
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Stephen Hawking (on business for an Epstein-funded science conference)
Which celebrities had ties to Epstein?
The following celebs were his acquaintances and friends, but it hasn’t been confirmed whether they visited his island, per Business Insider, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Newsweek:
Donald Trump
Kevin Spacey
Chris Tucker
Elon Musk
Woody Allen
Harvey Weinstein
Barclays CEO Jes Staley
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Alec Baldwin
Ralph Fiennes
Ted Kennedy
David Koch
Courtney Love
Jimmy Buffett
Katie Couric
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Alan Dershowitz
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