Jeffrey Epstein allegedly transported underage girls to the US Virgin Islands and forced them into sex work from 2001 through 2018, according to a lawsuit
"Epstein created a network of companies and individuals who participated in and conspired with him in a pattern of criminal activity related to the sex trafficking, forced labor, sexual assault, child abuse, and sexual servitude of these young women and children," according to the lawsuit filed by Attorney General Denise N. George.
Hear Epstein accuser speak outside courthouse 01:04Epstein registered as a sex offender in the Virgin Islands in 2010, and so the Virgin Islands government attempted to visit him to conduct additional address verifications. But at his last verification in July 2018, Epstein refused to permit investigators, assisted by US Marshals, to enter Little St. James beyond its dock, saying that the dock was his"front door," the lawsuit says. He instead met them at his office on St. Thomas.
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