The US Virgin Islands want to seize two private islands that were owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The billionaire is said to have held women there for years and abused them.
Epstein is said to have brought hundreds of young women and underage girls to his estate on the Virgin Islands. The youngest victims would have been 11 and 12 years old.
The American billionaire was arrested in early July and detained on suspicion of sexual offenses. He is said to have abused a large number of children between 2001 and 2018. Epstein was found dead in his cell in early August.
In 2018, Epstein refused a Virgin Islands investigator and US police access to one of his islands, Little Saint James.
The Virgin Islands demand that Epstein’s private islands be forfeited. The prosecutor wants to compensate Epstein’s victims in this way. More than twenty women have sued Epstein’s estate.
The private islands are worth around 75 million euros. The total estate of Epstein is estimated to be worth nearly half a billion.
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