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A billionaire businessman has bought Jeffrey Epstein’s private islands and wants to turn them into a 5-star luxury resort
fortune.com ^ | May 4, 2023 | Eleanor Pringle

Posted on 09/01/2023 1:38:08 AM PDT by ransomnote

The infamous islands owned by Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier accused of sex trafficking, could be turned into a world-class resort under its new owner.

Great St. James and Little St. James have been purchased from the estate of the convicted sex offender by entrepreneur and investor Stephen Deckoff, under his firm SD Investments.

Deckoff snapped up the locations in the Virgin Islands for less than half the sum they were originally on the market for.

The properties had been advertised with an asking price of $125 million in March 2022, but after a number of reductions finally sold for $60 million, according to Forbes.

Deckoff plans to purge the land of its grim past, developing the location into a “state-of-the-art, five-star, world-class luxury 25-room resort.”

Whether or not luxury visitors will flock to the location dubbed ”Pedophile Island” and “Orgy Island” by locals remains to be seen. SNIP

The estate will also pay a further $450,000 to the Virgin Islands after it was discovered Epstein had destroyed the remains of centuries-old structures to make way for his development.

The Virgin Islands’ former attorney general said the payout was to “restore the faith of the people of the Virgin Islands that its laws will be enforced, without fear or favor, against those who break them. We are sending a clear message that the Virgin Islands will not serve as a haven for human trafficking.

 


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: jeffreyepstein; qtardsvacationspot; sdinvestments; stephendeckoff

1 posted on 09/01/2023 1:38:08 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

The island needs to be bombed until it becomes one with the ocean.


2 posted on 09/01/2023 1:50:48 AM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist)
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To: ransomnote

I wouldn’t want shine a black light in there

Especially the Clinton Wing


3 posted on 09/01/2023 2:34:20 AM PDT by digger48
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To: roving

Exactly. he thought of staying where such evil was perpetrated is sickening.

The place must be infested with demons.

I feel defiled over even the thought of going there.


4 posted on 09/01/2023 3:03:42 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: roving

Why the island did nothing it just land.

Backwards thinking.

Just like blaming a firearm instead of the person using it.


5 posted on 09/01/2023 3:21:50 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: ransomnote

“Whether or not luxury visitors will flock to the location dubbed ‘Pedophile Island’ and ‘Orgy Island’ by locals remains to be seen.”

I imagine some visitors will flock to those places ‘cause it’ll bring back memories of past visits there. Only s truly sick or depraved person would go there on purpose.


6 posted on 09/01/2023 3:38:39 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: ransomnote

one has to wonder if the same services will be provided. for an extra fee of course.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 4:16:17 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: ransomnote

In an evil sort of a way, that’s what they already were.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 5:08:22 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: ransomnote

Location, location, location...


9 posted on 09/01/2023 5:32:37 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: ransomnote

And yet, when one posits similar theories about Maui, we are mocked and berated.


10 posted on 09/01/2023 6:15:13 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: ransomnote

Will it be a brand new smart island run by AI?


11 posted on 09/01/2023 6:18:45 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ransomnote

A 5-star luxury resort

Wink wink and a nudge know what I mean?.


12 posted on 09/01/2023 8:32:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ransomnote

Stephen Deckoff
is this a trans joke?
Stiffin Dick Off is a medical procedure Yes?


13 posted on 09/01/2023 8:52:41 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: ransomnote
developing the location into a “state-of-the-art, five-star, world-class luxury 25-room resort.

I'm sure that will be quite affordable.

14 posted on 09/01/2023 8:54:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ransomnote

Maybe they should do the same to the Holocaust crematoriums. I still wonder what happened to all those kids on the islands. Both are places of torture and death.

Sick.

When I visited DC Holocaust museum, a deep dark ominous feeling came over me. Same for the Vietnam memorial wall.


15 posted on 09/03/2023 7:00:06 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: ransomnote
"...turn them into a 5-star luxury resort"

That's gonna take some serious re-branding.

16 posted on 09/03/2023 7:15:45 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: riverrunner
Why the island did nothing it just land.

Backwards thinking.

Your noted perspective is the well-known reason that, in all of history, humans have never built monuments or put markers at or reverentially visited places where historical events occurred.

17 posted on 09/03/2023 7:22:15 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: Donnafrflorida

I can’t imagine luxuriating at a resort known for the torture and killing of children.

It does remind me of a picture post Tsunami, probably Myanmar. The dead were not yet accounted for but the businesses were trying to resume to avoid losing their company’s so they resume tourist accommodations. There’s a horror pic of a group of umbrella covered chairs on the right side and off in the distance to the left, part of a human body sticking out of the sand.

Yes - I was thinking about ‘gas chamber tourism’ - no one would ever want to relax and ‘enjoy’ that ‘a deep dark ominous feeling’ you described, which must inhabit Epstein Island. Is it like staring evil in the face?*shudder*


18 posted on 09/03/2023 9:15:26 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Indeed. Those that have empathy seemingly have become a minority. Glad to share that camp with you.


19 posted on 09/03/2023 2:04:06 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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