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Jeffrey Epstein owned two private islands in the US Virgin Islands.
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Epstein in 2004.
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In August of last year, the man who was being held in a Manhattan jail cell on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges died of an apparent suicide.

The FBI raided the Little St. James property days after the death of the man who was at the center of the sexual abuse lawsuit.

The islands are being marketed by Modlin Group, Christie's International Real Estate, and The Saints.

Modlin Group declined to speak with Insider. Christie's International Real Estate The Saints did not reply to Insider's requests for comment.

The proceeds from the sale of the properties will be used to pay the outstanding lawsuits of the Epstein estate, according to an attorney for the estate.

He did not respond to the request for comment.

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Little St. James.
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The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit in January of 2020 that claimed that the people of Little St. James had taken girls and young women to them and forced them into prostitution.

Ghislaine Maxwell sued his estate in March of 2020. The lawsuit was filed in the US Virgin Islands.

After a trial that began on November 29, Maxwell was found guilty of helping to recruit girls and young women to be forced into sexual slavery on the islands.

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