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Major Epstein properties have largely exited his control: Little St. James and Great St. James were sold to investor Stephen Deckoff in 2023 (reported purchase price $60 million for both) ; Epstein’s ...
is a private-equity investor and founder of who purchased ’s and islands in May 2023 through an entity called for roughly $60 million, and publicly announced plans to . Reporting documents Deckoff’s s...
Jeffrey Epstein’s main house was on Little Saint James (often called “Little St. James” or “Epstein Island”), a roughly 70–90 acre islet in the U.S. Virgin Islands that Epstein bought in 1998 and deve...
Jeffrey Epstein used a fleet that included a Boeing 727 and other jets to shuttle guests — including, according to victims’ accounts and reporting, young women to his Little St. James island — and he ...
Jeffrey Epstein owned two private islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands — Little St. James and Great St. James — and his estate reached a 2022 settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands for about $105 milli...
Stephen Deckoff — founder of Black Diamond Capital Management (also reported as SD Investments) — bought Jeffrey Epstein’s two U.S. Virgin Islands, Great St. James and Little St. James, in a reported ...
Available reporting describes Little Saint James as a developed private island with built infrastructure and utilities connected to island data and electric networks, but the sources do not explicitly...
Public reporting and government releases show Jeffrey Epstein owned Little St. James and Great St. James until his death in 2019; those islands were sold after legal settlements and reporting identifi...
Public reporting does not provide a simple line-item showing exactly how much Jeffrey Epstein paid in property taxes specifically for his two U.S. Virgin Islands islands; available sources describe la...
As of the reporting in the provided sources, Little Saint James and neighboring Great St. James were sold in 2023 to billionaire investor Stephen Deckoff (SD Investments/Black Diamond Capital Manageme...
bought (and neighboring ) in May 2023 and immediately announced plans to convert the properties into a , retaining architects and engineers and projecting a 2025 opening . Reporting since the sale doc...
Court filings and reporting at the time and afterward place Jeffrey Epstein’s net worth at several overlapping but not identical figures: prosecutors said “more than $500 million” , estate documents a...
After Jeffrey Epstein’s death in August 2019, Little St. James remained part of his estate and was placed on the market; in May 2023 billionaire investor Stephen Deckoff closed on both Little St. Jame...
Public records and reporting identify only a small number of named contractors and suppliers associated with construction on U.S. Virgin Islands properties: a pool contractor, , who held a lien at the...
Official and journalistic records show a mixed, incomplete paper trail: permitting processes and forms exist and require contractor names , reporters and DPNR officials say submitted multiple for and ...
The most consistently reported architect tied to work on Little Saint James is Edward (Ed) Tuttle, whose practice is credited with designing a renovation of the island’s main house that concluded afte...
A 2023 sale transferred Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James and neighboring Great St. James to financier Stephen Deckoff for roughly $60 million, and the new owner has announced intentions to redevelop...
House Oversight Democrats released photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James and Great St. James that prosecutors in the U.S. Virgin Islands had provided; those files show the estate a...
Jeffrey Epstein’s name has been tied in reporting to at least one property long associated with him: Little St. James, a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands where he “lived for the better part o...
Public records and recent reporting show Jeffrey Epstein owned two U.S. Virgin Islands properties — Little St. James and Great St. James — that his estate was required to sell under a 2022 settlement ...