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Whilst the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s death continue to divide the internet, the horrors of the crimes that he committed whilst alive are plain for all to see.

At the centre of many of the stories surrounding Epstein’s criminality with underage girls are his private islands in the US Virgin Islands, which came to be collectively known to locals as ‘Paedo Island’.

In a new lawsuit against Epstein, it’s now alleged that he was trafficking underage girls as recently as 2018, reports the BBC:

The lawsuit against his estate says the girls were “lured and recruited” to his Caribbean home and forced into sex.

This is the first lawsuit filed against Epstein in the US Virgin Islands.

The suit seeks to seize part of his $577m (£442m) fortune and his two private islands, Little Saint James [below] and Great Saint James.

Reuters

“Epstein clearly used the Virgin Islands and his residence in the US Virgin Islands at Little Saint James as a way to be able to conceal and to be able to expand his activity here,” US Virgin Islands prosecutor Denise N George says in the suit.

“Epstein and his associated trafficked underage girls to the Virgin Islands, held them captive, and sexually abused them, causing them grave physical, mental and emotional injury.”

An official actually tried to look around his Little St James island in July 2018, as part of the government’s routine monitoring of a convicted sex offender, but was denied access to the property.

The lawsuit also details an incident where a 15-year-old girl attempted to swim away from the island after she was forced to engage in sex acts with Epstein and his friends.

No word on whether Prince Andrew was there at the time.

The 15-year-old is alleged to have been captured mid-escape by Epstein, who then confiscated her passport.

Just when you think your blood can’t boil to a higher temperature, there’s this, via the New York Times:

[He] was bringing girls as young as 11 and 12 to his secluded estate in the Virgin Islands, known as Little Saint James, and kept a computerized database to track the availability and movements of women and girls, the lawsuit said…

Mr. Epstein used a ring of associates to rotate the women and girls in and out of sexual servitude, using fraudulent modeling visas to transport them across state lines and international borders, the lawsuit said. He tracked their availability and proximity using the database, court documents said.

The suit also said air traffic controllers in the Virgin Islands observed Mr. Epstein leaving his private plane in 2018 with girls who looked as young as 11.

It’s amazing what an estimated net worth of around $580 million, according to some, lets you get away with.

Remember, Epstein was a convicted sex offender from as far back as 2008.

We mentioned Prince Andrew earlier, who knowingly fraternised with Epstein, and stayed at his house, in the years that followed that conviction.

He’s having a jolly old time of it this past week, with #Megxit pushing his scandals to the back pages. Here he is leaving Buckingham Palace in his Bentley Continental yesterday.

That’s him on our left, grinning away:

No word on whether he shouted “Thanks, Meg darling” as he exited.

[sources:bbc&nytimes]