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Private island Little St. James is at center of scandal in national headlines
BRITNEY KNIGHT
ST. CROIX — Convicted sex
offender Jeffrey Epstein is again
making national headlines for
allegedly hosting an under age
orgy on his private island dubbed
Little St. James — and so is the
Virgin Islands.
The billionaire financier spent
13 months in jail following guilty
pleas in 2008 in connection with
soliciting girls for underage pros-titution, but
recent alle-
gations that
Britain's
Prince
Andrew,
Nobel prize-
winning
physicist
Stephen
Hawking
and promi-Epstein nent lawyer Alan Dershowitz, were among the
men in attendance at Epstein's
home during that alleged orgy,
have thrown the territory back
into the headlines.
Dershowitz, a member of the
"Dream Team" in former NFL star
O.J. Simpson's murder trial and
Hawking are accused alongside
the Prince, of having sexual rela-
tions with a teenage associate of
Epstein on the island.
Articles associating the Virgin Islands with Epstein's private
island have appeared in print
newspapers in Washington, D.C.
and New York and online news-
papers like the Daily Beast and
Smoking Gun, as well as in media
in other parts of the world to
include Britain and Australia.
"Epstein's Caribbean island of
Little St. James lies a short dis-
tance from St. Thomas — part of
the U.S. Virgin Islands," an arti-
cle in the online edition of Britain's Daily Mail notes. Several photos
accompany the article and among
them are one of the island, again
with references to the U.S. Vir-
gin Islands.
Hawking, the celebrated physi-
cist, who at 21 was diagnosed
with ALS and is wheelchair -bound
because of the degenerative dis-
ease, attended a conference on
St. Thomas as part of an event
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