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Billionaire Stephen Deckoff snaps up dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's two private islands for $60million - including one where he sexually abused children – to develop state of the art luxury resorts
2023-05-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Jeffrey Epstein's infamous Caribbean islands finally have a new owner

  • Private equity mogul Stephen Deckoff, founder of private equity firm Black Diamond Capital Management, paid less than half of initial asking price

  • Deckoff, who said he never met Epstein, has plans to develop a 25-room resort
The two private islands, known as Great St. James and Little St. James, first hit the market as a package deal for $125m in March 2021, but this was cut to $55m a piece - or $110m for the pair.

Little St. James is the infamous island where Epstein - who was murdered died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 aged 66 - built his lavish compound to host orgies and traffic underage girls.

Government documents show that Little St. James Island, which sits on 70 acres of land located a little over a mile from St Thomas - a tropical island near Puerto Rico - was purchased by one of Epstein's companies in April 1998 for $7.95million.

Nearby Great St. James, through roughly twice as big at 160-plus acres, is largely undeveloped, and Epstein purchased it primarily to keep tourists away from his hideaway.

In 2016, Epstein spent $18million on Great St. James Island, which once was popular with locals and tourists for its main attraction, the Christmas Cove nature preserve.

Virgin Islands prosecutors in 2020 accused Epstein of bringing girls as young as 11 to the islands and sexually assaulting them.

Mr Deckoff, who has lived in the US Virgin Islands since 2011, says that he never met Epstein and had not stepped foot onto his land until they were marketed following the financier's death.

Speaking about his acquisition of the islands, Mr Deckoff, who has a net worth of $3 billion according to Forbes, said: 'I've been proud to call the U.S. Virgin Islands home for more than a decade and am tremendously pleased to be able to bring the area a world-class destination befitting its natural grace and beauty.'
Related:
Little St. James Island: 2020-09-02 US Virgin Islands wants access to secret Ghislaine Maxwell files
Little St. James Island: 2019-07-11 Sex, Lies, and Epstein/Clinton Flight Logs
Little St. James Island: 2019-07-09 Former Pres. Bill Clinton claims he 'knows nothing' about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged child sex crimes
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