Perhaps one of the most talked-about residences owned by Jeffrey Epstein—who maintains a number of “luxury properties and residences around the world”—is his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which prosecutors believe is his “primary residence“ in the United States.
The financier had purchased the roughly 75-acre Little St. James Island, which sits about a mile southeast of the U.S. Caribbean territory of St. Thomas, more than two decades ago and worked to transform it. The native vegetation was first cleared, before towering palm trees were added to the property, reportedly at about $20,000 per tree, while two massive U.S. flags were added on either end of the island.
