The latest reports from “Little St. Jeff’s,” the notorious Caribbean hideaway of Jeffrey Epstein, are startling.
One recent visitor was allegedly hog-tied naked. Would-be interlopers on jet skis have been chased away. Another, apparently, was bound with duct tape and assaulted in the presence of police officers.
Epstein has been dead for almost seven years, but this strange new drama is now playing out on what was once his private island – Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands. The new owner, distressed-debt billionaire and Black Diamond founder Stephen Deckoff, has been besieged by curiosity-seekers and voyeurs.
Some of the visitors believe Epstein is still alive. Others are on a mission to fight “monsters.” They’re arriving on jet skis, they’re deploying drones to shoot footage and they’re risking arrest. Deckoff’s staff, in response, have occasionally taken matters into their own hands, according to local police reports.
“The owners have made, and will continue to make, lawful citizens arrests if these trespasses continue,” a spokesperson for the property said. He denied mistreatment of anyone who “threatened the safety of those lawfully on the island.”
The Justice Department’s release of the Epstein Files, instead of putting conspiracy theories around the sex offender to rest, has spun the long-running social-media frenzy over him into a sweeping cultural phenomenon. School children are surreptitiously playing a viral video game, Five Nights at Epstein’s, on classroom laptops. Epstein-themed tourism is also a thing, with travel guides suggesting ways to see his former properties without technically trespassing.
The incidents on Little St. James are now another twist in the dark story of the place where Epstein was known to entertain famous friends and accused of having committed some of h...


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