Jeffrey Epstein's notorious island is still shrouded in mystery.
Someone got a peek at it today.
And a YouTuber went to Epstein Island and what happened next made his hair stand up.
YouTuber claims he's being followed after island visit
Nico Grigg made a name for himself pulling pranks and posting adventure videos that rack up millions of views.
His latest stunt took him to the most infamous private property in America — Jeffrey Epstein's Little Saint James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The 20-year-old Florida YouTuber traveled to the Caribbean in late January with friends to film near the 72-acre island where Epstein trafficked underage girls for years.
Grigg and his crew used drones to scout the island from above before attempting to reach the shore by jet ski.
Security stopped them during their first attempt.
The group claimed they spotted people in golf carts watching them and taking photos.
On a second approach, they managed to get close to shore before one member stepped on a sea urchin and they had to retreat.
The real story started after Grigg posted his video online.
Within days of uploading the footage, blacked-out Escalade trucks began appearing outside his home.
Grigg told his followers that blacked-out Escalade trucks had been sitting outside his house every day since he returned home.
He contacted police about the mysterious vehicles.
Billionaire who bought Epstein's island has a disturbing connection
Little Saint James has sat largely abandoned since Epstein died in federal custody in 2019.
Billionaire Stephen Deckoff bought both Little Saint James and neighboring Great Saint James in 2023 for $60 million.
He promised to build a luxury 25-room resort by 2025.
That never happened.
Virgin Islands government records show Deckoff filed only one construction permit — for an 8,800-square-foot warehouse on Little Saint James.
The permit application remains incomplete because Deckoff never submitted the required environmental assessment.
Site plans show Deckoff wants to tear down smaller metal warehouses and build one massive semi-circular concrete warehouse with a large concrete pad.
That's industrial infrastructure, not a five-star resort.
Newly released Justice Department files show Epstein's inner circle was researching Deckoff's company five years before Epstein died.
An email from May 16, 2014 shows Epstein's estate executor Richard Kahn asking pilot Larry Visoski to investigate Black Diamond Capital Management.
"Can you poke around tonight about Black Diamond Trading," Kahn wrote, because he heard the company was trying to buy the St. Thomas Jet Center.
"They appear to be an nyc hedge fund" with "an office in stt as an EDC company as well," Kahn added, asking "who are principals?"
Visoski responded with the tail number for Black Diamond's Learjet and asked if he should "meet the aircraft and poke around."
Kahn forwarded this intelligence to Epstein, who replied: "yes why not?"
Epstein's team was gathering information on Deckoff's company in 2014.
Five years later, Epstein dies in federal custody.
Four years after that, Deckoff buys both of Epstein's islands and promises a resort that never materializes.
Island remains frozen with surveillance still running
Tour operators who work near the islands report seeing zero resort construction.
The property remains exactly as FBI agents left it in 2019 — blue-striped temple, guest villas, private beaches, and military-grade surveillance equipment.
Ubiquiti cameras, network switches, and recording devices capable of monitoring 800 to 1,000 devices were seized during the raid.
A 2005 fiber-optic cable gave the island data-processing capacity equal to a small city.
That surveillance infrastructure is still operational.
The island supposedly has 24-hour security watching for trespassers.
Who's running that security for a billionaire who only wants to build a warehouse?
Someone ordered them to photograph Grigg and his friends.
Tracking down a YouTuber in Florida and staking out his house takes serious resources — the kind most people don't have.
Deckoff's representatives declined comment on the island's current security arrangements.
They also won't explain why Epstein's team was researching his company in 2014.
The surveillance capability that tracks every visitor
Anyone approaching the island isn't just trespassing — they're exposing themselves to surveillance.
Data broker Near Intelligence tracked nearly 200 mobile devices that visited Little Saint James between 2016 and 2019, compiling location data with centimeter-level precision.
That capability still exists.
Anyone approaching the island with a smartphone is broadcasting their identity to whoever controls that network.
The Justice Department released three million pages of Epstein documents.
Those files exposed elite networks that enabled decades of sex trafficking.
They also revealed Epstein's inner circle was gathering intelligence on Stephen Deckoff's company in 2014.
Nobody can explain why the man who bought both islands promised a luxury resort, then only filed permits for a concrete warehouse.
The island sits frozen in 2019, surveillance running, security watching 24/7.
Grigg's experience suggests that whoever controls Little Saint James today takes trespassers seriously enough to track them back to Florida and let them know they're being watched.
Sources:
- Daily Express UK, "YouTuber snuck onto Epstein island – what he saw left him speechless," February 8, 2026.
- Virgin Islands Daily News, "Still no resort plans for Epstein's islands purchased by Deckoff," February 6, 2026.
- Hunterbrook Media, "Ubiquiti surveillance equipment on Epstein's island," February 2026.
- Sunday Guardian Live, "Nico Grigg travels to Little St. James island," February 2026.
- CBS News, "U.S. YouTuber arrested after visiting forbidden island," April 2025.
