Deceased convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein's two private U.S. Virgin Islands are up for sale with a hefty price tag of $125 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Known as "The Jameses," according to Bespoke Real Estate's listing, Little St. James and Great St. James "spread over 230 combined acres+/- of serene Caribbean landscape."
Epstein bought Little St. James for roughly $8 million back in 1998, according to ABC News. He later purchased Great St. James for about $20 million in 2016, per the Wall Street Journal.
Prosecutors from the Virgin Islands claimed that Epstein took girls as young as 11-years-old to the islands where he and other associates sexually assaulted them.
Epstein was eventually arrested on July 6, 2019 for the federal charges of sex trafficking of minors, and was later found dead in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019.
There is currently a civil racketeering lawsuit filed by Denise George, the U.S. Virgin Islands' attorney general, against Epstein's estate, as the islands are under "criminal activity" liens.
"Epstein, through and in association with defendants, trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive underage girls and young women at his properties in the Virgin Islands," the complaint said, per ABC News.
Daniel Weiner, an attorney for the Epstein estate, said that the proceeds from the sale of the islands would be used "for the resolution of outstanding lawsuits and the regular costs of the Estate’s operations, and will be subject to potential claims by tax authorities, creditors, and other parties."
Weiner told the Wall Street Journal that about $121 million of Epstein's estate has been used to pay the victims of sexual assault.
This is not the first property owned by Epstein to go up for sale, as his Upper East Side Manhattan mansion sold for $51 million and his Palm Beach home sold for $18.5 million, both in March 2021. His other properties, Zorro Ranch in New Mexico and his Paris apartment, are also currently up for sale.
New York-based firms The Modlin Group and Bespoke Real Estate in a partnership with U.S. Virgin Islands-based Christie's International Real Estate The Saints are marketing the islands.
Bespoke Real Estate describes them as, "two exceptional private U.S. Virgin Islands await your vision in a picturesque setting with abundant possibilities."
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