Cecile De Jongh And Her Stay At Epstein's Place In 2017

Cecile de Jongh, the former First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands, acknowledged in court-related filings that she stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2017 while recovering from knee-replacement surgery. She reportedly framed the stay as a matter of convenience, pointing to the apartment’s elevator access and proximity to the hospital, but the admission landed badly because Epstein was already a convicted sex offender and because de Jongh’s relationship with him was not casual or distant. It added another ugly layer to the broader question of how deeply Epstein was embedded with Virgin Islands political power even after his crimes were publicly known.The larger issue is that de Jongh had been tied to Epstein for years through his Virgin Islands operations, including allegations that she worked for him, received a $200,000 annual salary, had her children’s tuition covered, helped arrange visas for young women connected to Epstein, and sought his input on sex-offender legislation that could affect his travel and registration obligations. JPMorgan’s filings and later survivor litigation used those details to argue that Epstein was not merely tolerated in the territory, but protected and serviced by influential people who helped keep his access, status, and machinery intact. The 2017 apartment stay became another symbol of that coziness: not just bad judgment, but a window into the kind of relationship Epstein cultivated with officials who should have been nowhere near him.to contact me:[email protected]