EERIE

Leaked Data Shines New Light on People Who Visited Epstein’s ‘Pedophile Island’

A data broker revealed that scores of phones allegedly pinged on the island in Epstein’s final years, before he was arrested a final time.

Nearly 200 phones pinged on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous “pedophile island” in the years that preceded his death, WIRED reported Thursday, citing leaks it obtained from the controversial international data broker Near Intelligence. That data allegedly tracked phones going to and from the infamous socialite and convicted sex trafficker’s Little Saint James Island in the Caribbean, where Epstein is accused of having trafficked and assaulted scores of women and children as young as 12. The flood of visitors occurred up until 2019—well after the late Epstein was a known sex offender, WIRED reported. Thursday’s report declined to list any names tied to the phone data, but it alleged that some phones visited Epstein’s island and later pinged at Martha’s Vineyard, a Miami nightclub, mansions in Michigan, and even a sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Some of the pings also headed to international locations after visiting the island, WIRED reported, including “to cities in Ukraine, the Cayman Islands, and Australia, among others.” Near Intelligence reportedly declined to comment when asked what it planned to do with the data.