One of Denmark’s last islands sold to the US was Epstein’s island
Amid renewed discussions of the U.S. purchasing Greenland, historical records reveal that the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies—which transferred the U.S. Virgin Islands to American control for $25 million—included the island later infamously owned by Jeffrey Epstein, with the attorney-general of the U.S. Virgin Islands describing it as “the perfect hideaway and haven for trafficking young women and underage girls for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault.”
