Island was just a blur of girls and orgies at all hours
THE ‘orgies’ happened everywhere and at all times, the girls – many underage – ferried in by private jet to supply the endless sexual cravings of Jeffrey Epstein and his famous friends.
Little St James, Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, may have been small but it had enough room for sexual abuse on an industrial scale.
Such are the shocking allegations in bombshell new legal papers that detail Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts’ memories of the sordid US Virgin Islands’ hideaway that Epstein used as his main home.
The egotistical Epstein liked to call it ‘Little St Jeff’ but Mrs Roberts’ horrifying testimony, unveiled yesterday, more than justifies the rather less salubrious nicknames of ‘Orgy Island’, ‘Paedo Island’ and ‘Island of Sin’ that it has been given.
Far more tucked away from prying eyes than Epstein’s lavish homes in the US and Europe, the island – bought for just under £5million in 1998 – effectively became Ground Zero for the paedophile financier’s sexual crimes. It was here that he could do exactly what he liked.
As graphically described by Mrs Roberts – now Virginia Roberts Giuffre – any visitor would have been hard put to miss the 75-acre island’s main activity. ‘The island was a place where orgies were a constant thing that took place,’ she testified under oath.
Mrs Roberts, who says she visited the island at least 20 times during the teenage years she spent as Epstein’s ‘sex slave’, talked of a ‘blur of girls’ around Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend and alleged madam.
The pair had sex with underage girls virtually every day when they were together, Mrs Roberts claimed. There were so many coming through that she never knew many of their names, she said.
She said young women, including Eastern European ‘models’, were flown in to participate in the sex sessions, telling investigating lawyers: ‘There’s so many, I don’t know where you want me to start.’
She went on: ‘There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads... They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21... Some of them looked really young.’
The sex, she said took place by the pool, in the various cabanas, tiny wooden beach huts just big enough for a bed, and in Epstein’s bedroom. The latter she could describe in detail right down to the colour of the covers on his kingsize four-poster bed.
Mrs Roberts said she ‘had to’ perform a sex act on Maxwell, in Epstein’s presence, by the swimming pool. She also saw the British socialite have sex with other ‘females’ – she wouldn’t say ‘women’ as they were too young – ‘by the pool and down by the beach’. She added: ‘There were orgies held by the pool.’ The one she recalled featured ‘girlon-girl action’.
The other girls involved didn’t even speak English, she said. ‘Beautiful, tall, some were blonde, some were sandy brown.’
They spoke in a foreign language she thought was either Czech or Russian.
Mrs Roberts also recalled having a ‘foursome’ with Maxwell and Epstein in the living room of the island’s main house. On another occasion, she joined the pair and another girl in a blue cabana.
And who else joined Epstein and Maxwell on this twisted island paradise, which even Donald Trump has dubbed a ‘cesspool’?
Court papers claim visitors included ‘prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a wellknown prime minister and other world leaders’.
One former member of staff said: ‘At times it was like a Who’s Who. There was one celebrity or politician after another.’
ACCORDING to Mrs Roberts, Bill Clinton definitely stayed at least once in Epstein’s villa on the island because she went there with him. She recalled she and two other ‘young girls’ from New York joined the former US president on the trip some time after his presidency.
When she asked Epstein what the politician was doing on the island, the financier laughed and answered mysteriously: ‘He owes me a favour.’
Powerful people owed him, Epstein would boast. ‘He never told me what favours they were. I never knew. I didn’t know if he was serious.’ she said.
Other legal papers claim Mr Clinton was seen walking off with a woman on each arm during one stay on the island. He has denied even visiting the island.
Mrs Roberts has also said she was on the island with Prince Andrew in 2001. According to flight logs, the duke travelled there once on Epstein’s jet, although former staff have said he visited Little St James several times.
She said she and the prince had sex even though she was underage in the territory.
She claimed she and eight other
girls were told by Epstein to assemble at a cabana by the pool where they were greeted by him and the prince.
The duke has strenuously denied having had any sexual relationship with Mrs Roberts.
Some of the most distressing allegations against Epstein and Maxwell are connected to the island. Epstein’s victims have said young women were made to walk naked around the island.
Sarah Ransome, a British alleged victim of Epstein, claimed she was raped up to three times a day during months imprisoned on the island.
She says she was so determined to escape that she hatched a plan to swim the surrounding sharkinfested waters.
However, she was spotted on the video cameras Epstein installed across the island and stopped by his cronies. It has also been alleged that a ‘distraught’ 15-year-old girl from Sweden was held hostage on the island, her passport and phone confiscated, and then forced to have sex with him.
Little St James was Epstein’s high-security and luxurious getaway. After he bought it in 1998, he imported an army of 200 workers to build a stone mansion, two large guest houses, a helipad and a bizarre blue and white striped, gold-domed building. Workers who built it believed the temple-like structure was a music room as it housed a grand piano and featured acoustic walls. However, it may have had a far more sinister purpose.
A US building expert who examined photos of it spotted a ‘reinforced lock bar across the outside... as if it were to lock people in’.
The estate also included a library for Epstein’s 90,000 books, a Japanese bathhouse and cinema. The
US Virgin Islands authorities sued Epstein’s estate earlier this year, claiming the late sex offender raped and trafficked dozens of women and young girls on the island. The island’s fate has been to become a lurid tourist attraction.
Maxwell has denied all allegations of wrong-doing. She is currently awaiting trial on charges of sex abuse, the sex trafficking of children and perjury.