One of the homes of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still pops up in the news and on real estate sites.
In addition, so does the query of whether President Donald Trump spent time with former President Bill Clinton on an island belonging to Epstein. Recently, the Department of Justice released another 3 million pages of records related to the sex trafficking investigations into the late financier. The push for transparency around the documents has been a controversy plaguing the Trump administration for months.
The six-bedroom, 7 1/2-bathroom lakefront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, once owned by Epstein, is no more − the multimillion-dollar home was demolished after his death in 2019. The two-story home featured a living room and patio with views of the intracoastal waterway, an elevator, West Indies-style architecture, a cabana and a separate building used by household staff, according to reporting by the Palm Beach Daily News, a USA TODAY Network newspaper.
In 2021, the Palm Beach Daily News and the Palm Beach Post captured photos and video of the demolition of Epstein’s home in Florida.
However, photos of the white house with a crystal blue pool and a waterfront view still show up on sites like homes.com and realtor.com − with information about its history. The site has been razed and the address changed. The real estate sites list property details that are public record.
Built in 1952 and sold for $18.5 million in 2021, the Epstein home was a key site where many of the crimes committed by the financier occurred, investigators said. Underage girls from Palm Beach County told investigators they were assaulted at the Palm Beach mansion as well as Epstein’s homes in New York, New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (see below).
When he died by suicide in 2019, Epstein had faced federal charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to two Florida felony counts that included solicitation of a minor. He served nearly 13 months in the Palm Beach County Jail before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.
His accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence on federal sex-trafficking charges.
Below are photos of the Jeffrey Epstein home in Palm Beach, Florida, before and after its demolition and an exclusive Palm Beach Post video that details what happened there.
Jeffrey Epstein home in Palm Beach, Florida: Before and after
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein case: From financier to convicted sex offender and human trafficking case
Walkthrough video of Jeffrey Epstein mansion taken by police in Palm Beach, Florida
Demolition of Jeffrey Epstein’s home in Florida
Did Trump ever go to Epstein’s island?
Donald Trump has denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island, though records show Trump flew on Epstein’s plane in the 1990s eight times. The recorded flights were mostly between Palm Beach, Florida and Teterboro, New Jersey, though there was also a trip to Washington, DC.
Troves of documents, images and videos from Epstein’s criminal investigations have been released after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, compelling the DOJ to release the files. Trump is named in many files released by the DOJ, but he has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crimes related to Epstein.
Trump was answering questions on July 28, 2025, as the calls to release the files mounted.
“I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island,” Trump said. “In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island.”
Did Bill Clinton go to Epstein’s private island?
Former President Bill Clinton has also denied going to Epstein’s island, but has been repeatedly named and pictured in the released files. Trump has long pointed a finger at Clinton, however, accusing him of being on the island. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles also told Vanity Fair in December 2025 that there was no evidence of those visits happening.
The late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre had said she saw Clinton there, but never saw him doing anything illegal. In a January 2015 email to author Michael Wolff where Epstein denies Clinton visited the island, he says someone else, whose name is redacted, had falsely claimed to see Clinton at the island.
“[Redacted] the storyteller, crafted much of it out of whole cloth,” he wrote, and argued it undercut other allegations.
“These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing,” Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña previously told USA TODAY in a statement. “The rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else.”
What happened at Epstein’s island?
Epstein owned two islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Court records show he bought Little St. James in 1998 and Great St. James in 2016.
In January 2020, prosecutors with the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate, alleging a criminal enterprise took place on his property there involving the sexual abuse of young girls.
“Epstein owned and arranged for private planes, helicopters, boat and automobiles to transport victims to, from and within the Virgin Islands, and provided money to pay these young women and underage girls,” the lawsuit stated.
One 15-year-old girl tried to escape by swimming, the lawsuit states. The estate settled the case with the U.S. Virgin Islands for $105 million in December 2022.
An investment firm led by financier Stephen Deckoff acquired the islands in May 2023.
Contributing: Joedy McCreary and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Epstein home in Florida: Before and after photos of mansion, demo
Reporting by Jennifer Sangalang, Kinsey Crowley and Darrell Hofheinz, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / Palm Beach Post
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