#VirginIslands
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- Albert Bryan Albert Bryan Jr. is the ninth governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who chaired the Economic Development Commission when it certified Jeffrey Epstein's Southern Trust Company and later fired the attorney general suing JPMorgan.
- Andrew Farkas New York real estate investor who founded Island Global Yachting and brought Jeffrey Epstein into a St. Thomas marina deal months after his 2006 Florida charge.
- Carlton Dowe Virgin Islands senator and two-term Port Authority executive director whose 2019 return Cecile de Jongh asked Epstein to support, acquitted of wire fraud in 2004 and indicted for bank fraud in 2026.
- Carol Thomas-Jacobs Antigua-born Virgin Islands prosecutor who as acting attorney general revoked Jeffrey Epstein's 24-hour travel notice in 2019, signed the 62.5 million dollar Leon Black settlement in 2023, then became a Superior Court judge.
- Cecile de Jongh Cecile de Jongh was First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015 while serving as office manager of Jeffrey Epstein's territorial companies, which held Economic Development Commission tax benefits.
- Celestino White Former Virgin Islands police chief and senator who signed a paid contractor agreement with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and has sat on the Port Authority board since 2020, reconfirmed in 2026.
- Darren Indyke Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer, officer of his companies and co-executor of his estate, named a 50 million dollar beneficiary, sued by victims and the Virgin Islands, and under federal investigation in 2026.
- David Bornn St. Thomas lawyer, partner of Epstein's territorial counsel Erika Kellerhals from 2017, then Governor Albert Bryan's chief legal counsel, whom Epstein's circle contacted in 2019 and who relayed Kellerhals's inquiry to Attorney General Denise George.
- Denise George Denise George was the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General who sued Jeffrey Epstein's estate and JPMorgan Chase, and who was fired by the governor days after filing the JPMorgan suit.
- Erika Kellerhals St. Thomas tax lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein before the Virgin Islands tax-incentive board and justice department, served as a trustee of his Butterfly Trust, and received his foundation's mail.
- Henry Smock St. Thomas lawyer and former territorial judge who helped Epstein buy Little St. James, counseled the board that granted his tax benefits, and was Governor Bryan's proposed mediator for the estate settlement.
- John de Jongh John de Jongh Jr. was the two-term governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015, whose wife managed Jeffrey Epstein's territorial office and whose 2015 embezzlement prosecution ended in a settlement.
- Kenneth Mapp Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2015 to 2019, who asked Jeffrey Epstein to lend the territory 275 million dollars and to fund his political action committee.
- Larry Visoski Jeffrey Epstein's pilot from 1991 to 2019, named manager of the Virgin Islands companies holding his aircraft, first government witness at the 2021 Maxwell trial, and recipient of Epstein-paid tuition for his daughters.
- Richard Kahn Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant, treasurer of Southern Trust and co-executor of his estate, named a 25 million dollar beneficiary, sued by victims and the Virgin Islands, and under federal investigation in 2026.
- Stacey Plaskett Virgin Islands delegate to Congress since 2015, formerly counsel to the territory's Economic Development Commission, whose 2014 island meeting, campaign receipts and 2019 hearing texts with Jeffrey Epstein drew a failed 2025 censure.
- Stephen Deckoff Stephen Deckoff is the founder of Black Diamond Capital Management and a U.S. Virgin Islands resident since 2011 who bought Jeffrey Epstein's Little St. James and Great St. James from the estate in 2023.
- Vincent Frazer Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2006 to 2015 who in 2012 cut Jeffrey Epstein's required notice of travel from 21 days to 24 hours at the request of Epstein's lawyers.
Organizations (16)
- Economic Development Commission The Economic Development Commission is the U.S. Virgin Islands tax-incentive board that granted Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Trust and Southern Trust companies benefits from 1999 until his death, after his sex-offender registration.
- Epstein Victims' Compensation Program Voluntary claims program funded by Jeffrey Epstein's estate and run by Jordana Feldman, which paid about 121 to 125 million dollars to some 136 to 150 claimants in exchange for releases, its records sealed.
- Financial Trust Company Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas money-management company, incorporated in 1998, which held Virgin Islands tax exemptions from 1999, a large Bear Stearns stake, and was accused of receiving Towers Financial proceeds.
- Government of the United States Virgin Islands The Government of the United States Virgin Islands is the territorial executive that registered and subsidized Jeffrey Epstein for two decades and after his death recovered about 180 million dollars in Epstein-related settlements.
- Gratitude America Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, recognized by the IRS in 2012, which took 10 million dollars from Leon Black in 2015 and paid Bard president Leon Botstein 150,000 dollars in 2016.
- Hyperion Air Two Jeffrey Epstein aircraft companies: a Delaware corporation that held his Gulfstream N909JE from 1994 and a St. Thomas LLC, formed in 2012, that held his helicopters.
- Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, registered with the IRS as Enhanced Education, which funded scientists and Edge, issued inflated gift claims, filed one tax return, and paid young models through Darren Indyke.
- JEGE, Inc. Jeffrey Epstein's Delaware corporation that owned his Boeing 727, N908JE, from 2001 to 2019, with a namesake St. Thomas LLC formed in 2012 that held a Gulfstream IV and passed to new owners in 2019.
- Legislature of the Virgin Islands Unicameral legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose 2012 sex-offender travel law Epstein's circle sought to shape through senators Carlton Dowe and Celestino White, and several of whose former members dealt with Epstein.
- Motley Rice Mount Pleasant, South Carolina plaintiffs' firm of the 1998 tobacco settlement negotiators, contingency counsel to the Virgin Islands against Epstein's estate and JPMorgan Chase, which took more than 43 million dollars in fees.
- Southern Financial LLC Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas limited liability company, registered in 2013, which held his Apollo Global Management shares and anchored a Deutsche Bank relationship worth about 98.6 million dollars in 2016.
- Southern Trust Company Southern Trust Company was Jeffrey Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands entity that obtained large territorial tax benefits by claiming to run a DNA-database and data-mining business the Virgin Islands later alleged it never actually conducted.
- University of the Virgin Islands Public land-grant university of the U.S. Virgin Islands whose research park declined Jeffrey Epstein around 2012, while its president kept soliciting him for a medical-school gift and its classes enrolled women connected to him.
- Virgin Islands Department of Justice Law department of the U.S. Virgin Islands, headed by a governor-appointed attorney general, which kept Jeffrey Epstein's sex-offender registration, waived his travel notice, then sued his estate and subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell.
- Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority Semi-autonomous U.S. Virgin Islands public corporation whose Economic Development Commission gave Jeffrey Epstein's companies tax benefits from 1999 to 2019 that a JPMorgan consultant valued at 300 million dollars.
- Virgin Islands Port Authority Territorial authority owning the U.S. Virgin Islands' public airports and seaports, which leased Jeffrey Epstein's aviation company a St. Thomas hangar and whose director and board member both dealt with Epstein.
Events (1)
- Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank The Virgin Islands' 2022 federal suit accusing JPMorgan of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking, heard by Judge Jed Rakoff with two victims' bank suits and settled in 2023 for 75 million dollars.
Places (6)
- Charlotte Amalie Capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, seat of the governor, courts and Justice Department that registered, waived for and later sued Jeffrey Epstein, and first address of his money-management company.
- Great St. James Great St. James is the island beside Little St. James that Jeffrey Epstein bought in January 2016 through Great St. Jim LLC, developed without permits, and whose estate sold it to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
- Little St. James Little St. James is the roughly 70-acre island off St. Thomas that Jeffrey Epstein owned from 1998 through shell companies, where victims alleged abuse, and which his estate sold to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
- St. Croix Island of the U.S. Virgin Islands, site of the 1878 Fireburn, the 1972 Fountain Valley killings and the HOVENSA refinery that Epstein's circle discussed as a Guantanamo replacement.
- St. Thomas Island of the U.S. Virgin Islands holding the capital, Charlotte Amalie, and the harbor the United States sought from Denmark, where Jeffrey Epstein kept his companies, lawyers, hangar access and sex-offender registration.
- U.S. Virgin Islands Unincorporated U.S. territory in the Caribbean bought from Denmark in 1917, where Jeffrey Epstein kept his islands, companies, tax exemptions and sex-offender registration from 1998 until his death.
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