- The Virgin Islands will also recoup more than $80 million in tax benefits that Epstein and others "fraudulently obtained to fuel his criminal enterprise," the agency said.The estate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and related entities agreed to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands more than $105 million as part of a settlement in a sex trafficking and child exploitation case, the territory's attorney general said Wednesday.The settlement also required the defendants to pay the Virgin Islands half the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James, the private island that was owned by Epstein and was allegedly a major hub for his yearslong criminal sex trafficking enterprise, said the Virgin Islands Department of Justice.The case alleged that Epstein masterminded a criminal enterprise through which many "young women and female children have been sex trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive" at Little St. James, the island Epstein bought in 1998.The announcement Wednesday evening noted that proceeds from the sale of Epstein's island will go toward a trust dedicated to funding efforts to help victims of sex trafficking and sexual abuse."