Jeffrey Epstein’s island: It wasn’t the only place he abused his victims
Jeffrey Epstein’s island remains the most infamous address tied to his crimes, yet it was never the only location where victims say they were exploited. His network of properties stretched from Paris to Palm Beach, each offering its own setting for alleged abuse. The disturbing pattern that emerged across these sites continues to surface in court records, victim accounts, and renewed official inquiries. Virginia Giuffre described being trafficked through several of these residences, and Ghislaine Maxwell was later convicted for her role in recruiting and transporting minors for Epstein. The properties themselves have since changed hands, but the allegations attached to them have not faded.
Paris apartment
The apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris’s 16th arrondissement stood among Epstein’s most discreet overseas holdings. French authorities began examining its use after Epstein’s 2018 arrest, focusing on the connection between Epstein and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel. Several women have stated that Brunel sent models to the apartment, where Epstein maintained a private massage room. Former staff described a steady flow of visitors, though they could not confirm ages. Brunel faced separate charges of rape and trafficking before his death in custody in 2022. French prosecutors have since announced plans to revisit aspects of the case in 2026 following new document releases.
New York townhouse
The Upper East Side townhouse served as a frequent site of alleged abuse according to multiple victims, including Virginia Giuffre. She has described being recruited at seventeen and paid to provide massages that quickly escalated into sexual exploitation. Police who searched the property in 2019 recovered hundreds of photographs of nude girls along with suggestive artwork and a life-size chess set featuring figures in minimal clothing. The house sold in 2021 for roughly fifty-one million dollars. Its new owner completed major renovations by 2025. Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, released in October 2025, revisits the experiences she said occurred inside these walls.
Palm Beach mansion
The Palm Beach residence drew the first major police attention in 2005 when officers raided the property over allegations that Epstein had solicited a minor. Investigators documented multiple massage tables, sex toys, and collections of explicit photographs featuring underage girls. Several victims later testified that they were hired to perform massages while Epstein was nude or partially clothed. The mansion sold in 2021 for eighteen and a half million dollars and was demolished shortly afterward. Its disappearance from the landscape marked one of the earliest physical erasures of Epstein’s footprint in Florida.
New Mexico ranch
Zorro Ranch, Epstein’s vast property outside Santa Fe, drew renewed scrutiny in 2026 when New Mexico authorities reopened a criminal investigation. Annie Farmer has stated that she was fifteen when Epstein and Maxwell touched her inappropriately during a visit that included a massage. Artist Maria Farmer has also described abuse on the property. Epstein reportedly discussed using the ranch to impregnate multiple women in line with his interest in eugenics. The reopened probe included property searches and a parallel legislative truth commission that has issued subpoenas to banks, agencies, and law enforcement for records on activities at the site. No federal search of the ranch occurred during earlier investigations despite the allegations.
Property Sales and Victim Compensation
Every major Epstein residence changed ownership between 2021 and 2023. The combined sales reached approximately one hundred sixty million dollars. Proceeds from these transactions helped fund the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program and related trusts in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The estate has distributed more than one hundred sixty million dollars to victims since 2019. The transactions closed a chapter on physical assets while directing resources toward those who came forward with claims of harm.
Ongoing New Mexico Investigations
The 2026 reopening of the Zorro Ranch case introduced new layers of official examination. State investigators conducted searches with detection dogs, and the truth commission expanded its reach by subpoenaing multiple agencies for documents on financial and operational ties. Earlier federal reviews had not included a physical search of the ranch. The fresh activity has prompted additional witnesses to contact authorities and has kept attention on the specific allegations made by survivors who visited the property years earlier.
Fates of the Properties After Epstein
Each location now carries a different legacy. The Palm Beach mansion no longer exists. The New York townhouse stands renovated under new ownership. The Paris apartment changed hands in 2022. These outcomes reflect both the desire of new buyers to alter the spaces and the practical reality that the properties could not remain untouched after the crimes connected to them became public. The island itself sold in 2023 for resort development, though no construction has begun as of early 2026.
The properties once used to conceal exploitation now exist only in records, survivor testimony, and the compensation programs they helped finance. Renewed investigations in New Mexico and France show that questions about what happened inside those walls have not ended with the sales or the convictions. The focus remains on the people who were harmed and on the institutions that continue to examine how the abuse was allowed to continue across so many addresses.
