Jeffrey Epstein And The Island That The USVI Wants To Forget

The Epstein Chronicles · Oct 12, 2026 · 34m

For years, Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse in the U.S. Virgin Islands was often framed as part of the later phase of his criminal operation, centered on Little St. James and continuing into the period before his 2019 arrest. But lawsuits, survivor accounts and records released after his death showed that his activities there stretched much further back and continued far later than many people initially understood. The Virgin Islands government alleged that Epstein used his island properties as a central base for trafficking and abusing women and girls for nearly two decades, including during the…