Never-before-seen pictures of the private island where Jeffrey Epstein trafficked and abused his underage victims have been released.
Images and videos inside Epstein’s sprawling home on Little St James in the US Virgin Islands were released by Democrats on the United States’ House oversight committee on Wednesday (local time).
Little St James, a nearly 30-hectare Caribbean beauty spot which Epstein referred to as Little St Jeff’s, is at the centre of some of the most horrific allegations of abuse from Epstein’s underage victims.
The island, which became known as “Epstein Island”, is where the paedophile would traffic and abuse underage victims as young as 14.
The images and videos released by the Democrats are an extraordinary look inside the vast estate, giving a glimpse at an outdoor pool surrounded by outhouses, several bedrooms and bathrooms, a library and what appears to be a dental room.
Their release will pile pressure on the US Department of Justice to release the files the Government holds on the convicted sex offender.
The bill to release the files, signed by Donald Trump amid mounting pressure from within his own party, requires the Justice Department to uncover all information from its Epstein investigation “in a searchable and downloadable format” by December 19.
The 10 images and four videos were taken by officials in the US Virgin Islands in 2020, the year after Epstein committed suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in a Manhattan prison.
“These new images are a disturbing look into the world of Jeffrey Epstein and his island. We are releasing these photos and videos to ensure public transparency in our investigation and to help piece together the full picture of Epstein’s horrific crimes,” Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the oversight committee, said.
Footage taken by someone walking through the property shows an outdoor pool in front of a sculpture of a man shooting a bow and arrow, and several palm trees. The pool area is surrounded by several grey outhouses with white shuttered doors and blue roofs.
There are sweeping views of the coast near the swimming pool, as well as from a winding stone path, which shows how isolated the island, only accessible by boat or helicopter, was. One 15-year-old victim previously described trying to escape the island by swimming.
Several of the images and videos show sparse bedrooms with en suites. One image from inside the property shows what appears to be boxes of towels and linen stacked next to several pillows in a white, tiled wet room.
Footage shows a plain bedroom with white bedding and one painting balanced on a chest of drawers with an en suite bathroom with toiletries including baby lotion and shaving gel.
One of the images showed a white four-poster bed in a white room with wooden beams. The room is plain apart from a red and beige hessian rug with a wicker chair and a box.
A second bedroom, which appears to be in one of the pool cabins, has wooden flooring, white walls and a blue ceiling. There is also a desk, two bedside tables and two lamps.
Other images from inside the property show what appears to be a wood-panelled library with four red patterned armchairs in front of a blackboard facing one another. Several words written on the blackboard in white chalk have been redacted, but visible words say “power,” “deception,” “plots”, “intellectual” and “political”.
There is also a photograph of a Panasonic landline telephone; three of the names on the speed dial have been redacted, but the remaining names include Darren, Rich, Mike, Patrick and Larry.
One picture also shows what appears to be a dental office, with a mustard dental chair in the centre of a white room with masks of men’s faces covering the walls. Epstein’s last girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was a dentist.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, wrote in her posthumous memoir that Epstein had trafficked her “to a man who raped me more savagely than anyone had before” on one of his islands when she was 18.
“He repeatedly choked me until I lost consciousness and took pleasure in seeing me fear for my life. Horrifically, the prime minister laughed when he hurt me and got more aroused when I begged him to stop,” she wrote, without naming the world leader.
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