Jeffrey Epstein And The Island That The USVI Wants To Forget

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 years after his 2008 Florida conviction when he was already a registered sex offender. According to those allegations, women and girls were transported into the territory, housed on Epstein’s properties and moved through an infrastructure that included private aircraft, staff, shell companies and financial arrangements designed to support his lifestyle and insulate his activities from outside scrutiny.

The timeline became especially significant because it suggested that Epstein’s criminal conduct in the USVI did not meaningfully stop after his Palm Beach prosecution or the non-prosecution agreement that was supposed to bring federal scrutiny to his operation. Instead, the allegations indicated that the islands remained an active part of his network well into the 2010s, with some survivors saying they were abused there years after he had already become a convicted sex offender. That expanded timeline changed the way the USVI chapter of the Epstein story was understood: Little St. James was not simply a retreat associated with his earlier crimes, but allegedly remained part of the machinery of abuse for years while banks, employees, officials and others continued doing business with him. It also raised a much larger question about how a man already known to law enforcement was able to continue operating so openly in an American territory for so long.


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